Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Infections. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Infections Quotes And Sayings by 92 Authors including George Herbert,Carre Otis,John Ruskin,Susan Dennard,Courtney Summers for you to enjoy and share.
The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.
I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
Plague? the guard interrupted.
The infected give chase and I won't look back, can't. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.
The wages of sin are an expensive infection.
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Bleed a cold but feast a fever.
I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
of venereal soldiers along the way. A more effective
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
Every virus you've ever had, seen in one blood test
In the early '70s, the nation was afflicted with incurable pattern viruses - small microbes that reproduced and multiplied from a single swatch left on a sofa, and soon covered an entire room.
Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.
With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray," Kasyanov said. "Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.
Hoop raised an eyebrow.
"Hey. Forever is a long time.
We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.
" ... The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC ... a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN."
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
My strategy is to stop the assaults--to reduce the number of factors your immune system has to deal with by cleaning up your diet, healing your gut, lightening your toxic burden, treating your infections, and reducing your overall stress.
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.
A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.
We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.
Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
My cholera's acting up again.
I am very confused and it's from a very very long time....
...
Already is a disease and it's spreading around the world... GLOBAL WARMING!
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
I had never heard of staph until I got it. Didn't really know what was. Still don't really know what it is, but I know you just don't want to have it.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift; Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
Listeria, wisteria. Ha. Funny words. She
Demon pox. There's always demon pox.
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.
Is this a Netherling flu?
You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.
We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior
Doctors is all swabs.
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.
It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.
... it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.
We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
By 2025, 70% of the population will live in cities; many of which will be densely overcrowded, increasing the odds of mass infections.
What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.
Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.
small bottle of penicillin tablets.
Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.
Hell! We don't need an infection to exterminate the human race - we'll do it ourselves!
At Beth Israel there had been Acinetobacter baumannii, which was resistant to vancomycin. "That's how you know it's a hospital infection," I recall being told by a doctor I asked at Columbia Presbyterian. "If it's resistant to vanc it's hospital. Because vanc only gets used in hospital settings.
A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease
The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.
We are sick because our cells are sick.
I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant.
That parasite: the past.
Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.
The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath. "It's the cascade of catastrophies.
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
diseases of an unromantic sort,
Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
As the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure
What kind of a disease is this that, like leprosy, is amputating our families, extremity by extremity, limb by limb? What kind of a disease is this that is taking away our words, cloaking us with silence, numbing us with fear? Eeh, Sister, you tell me.
The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
Or maybe it's life that is the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleansing, a cure.
Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.
I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.
Maybe that's what your machine calls infection - all the new information in my blood. Chatter. Tastes of other individuals. Peers. Superiors. Subordinates.
What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
is, in truth, a variety of diseases
Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.
This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold ... It has cholera.
I have inflammation of the imagination.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.