Epidemics

I talk about both those behaviors as what I call epidemics of self-destruction among teenagers. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Smith gestures toward a definition of epidemics that focuses on its transmissibility, via communication or transportation lines, though in some cases, the term comes awfully close to existing in the eye of the beholder. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2012)

Gibson's list of colonial epidemics is extensive: apart from fifteen in the sixteenth century, he catalogs thirty-five more for the remainder of the colonial period. 54 ❋ Unknown (2008)

In their attempt to explain epidemics naturalistically, the Hippocratic authors cited the air as a cause of illness and its tainting by miasma as the reason why so many people could be struck with the same set of symptoms at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Signs of trouble loom on the horizon, among them twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity in young people, says Daniel Levy of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham study, a 50-year-old examination of heart disease in a Massachusetts community. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In certain epidemics, particularly where children are concerned, epidemic typhus takes a relatively benign form; in adults, however, and if conditions are unfavourable, the mortality rate can reach the frightening proportion of between 50 and 60%. ❋ Unknown (1965)

The terror of diphtheria epidemics is unknown to him; he is rarely wrenched from college by the death of a father. ❋ Unknown (1955)

The goal of ending sexual violence in conflicts first focuses on making the problem visible and then on building societies that quickly condemn and stop what have been referred to as "epidemics" of rape in conflicts. ❋ Laura Carlsen (2011)

Cholera epidemics are the inevitable outcome of such a situation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To ruin a whole country that used to be prosperous, and plunder its remaining resources and steal its elections and beat and kill political opponents to keep your corrupt ass in power even as your starving people face epidemics, that is an outrage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My preferred healthcare modality is homeopathy, and if faced with one of many kinds of viral or bacterial epidemics, that is the kind of treatment I would seek out because I am certain that it would have the greatest chance of saving my life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Japanese rivals, isolated the plague germ and showed the role rats play in epidemics. ❋ Unknown (1998)

So we adopted the method that is used in cases of serious epidemics, which is to quarantine the infected people. ❋ Unknown (1992)

We recall epidemics of gastroenteritis, of typhus, and other calamities, which really cost the lives of thousands of peasant children. ❋ Unknown (1984)

It was then easy for me to conduct my research independently of epidemics, that is, all the time. ❋ Unknown (1965)

Hippocrates (400 B.C.), with whom medicine may be said to begin, thought such diseases, even then called epidemics, were caused by the air; he says, "When many individuals are attacked by a disease at the same time, the cause must be sought in some agent which is common to all, something which everyone uses, and that is the air which must contain at this time something injurious." ❋ William Thomas Councilman (N/A)

But even some of these so-called epidemics appear to be due to parasitic worms, which have from some cause, possibly in part through facility of diffusion amongst the crowded animals, been disproportionally favoured: and here comes in a sort of struggle between the parasite and its prey. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But even some of these so-called epidemics appear to be due to parasitic worms, which have from some cause, possibly in part through facility of diffusion amongst the crowded animals, been disproportionally favored: and here comes in a sort of struggle between the parasite and its prey. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

But even some of these so-called epidemics appear to be due to parasitic worms, which have from some cause, possibly in part through facility of diffusion amongst the crowded animals, been disproportionably favoured: and here comes in a sort of struggle between the parasite and its prey. ❋ Unknown (1859)

1. The [SARS] epidemic of 2003 killed hundreds and [hospitalized] thousands in China and Toronto. 2. Stone Phillips reporting on the highway surfing epidemic... Ashleigh [Banfield] to follow with an expose on the paint-huffing epidemic. ❋ The Evil Steve (2005)

AIDS is a disease that started [in Africa]. But now it's an epidemic that has [hit the gay] community in [San Francisco]. ❋ D3uteron (2009)

That [party] was 'epidemic' [yo]!! ❋ Long Kim Duong And Quoc Phan (2004)

That's epidemic, [dude]! ❋ Shdklashdas (2009)

you [hear] thatthats epidemic ❋ @ayana (2020)

Damn, there are so many [hot chicks] here. [Too bad] there is [a fucking] boyfriend epidemic. ❋ Dlcopperfield (2009)

Person A: If I hear [one more] Kanye West joke, imma not let you finish. Person B: Dude, you're totally [contributing] to the [joke epidemic]! ❋ Meanum (2009)

Guy 1- "Dude, that new picture is a [helluva] [tag epidemic]. I went home to go on Facebook and I had [178] notifications! All about one picture! People were even talking about the tag epidemic on the photo." Guy 2- "Luckily I got only 56 notifications" ❋ XavierCG (2009)

"Hey man! I think I just [put a pin in that] really annoying thing people do! I call it The Hubert Epidemic!" "AAACTUALLY, you DO REALIZE that what you REALLY MEANT was PANDEMIC?! EPIDEMIC isn't worldwide! [You DO KNOW] that RIGHT?!" "Of course I do" "WELL THEN I just CAN'T comprehend WHY someone would make SUCH a [STUPID mistake]." "... Fuck you man" ❋ Inevitibility (2017)

[Facebook Epidemic]: Rules: Once you've been [tagged], you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose at least 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.(Or I just literally tagged [randoms] eventually) (To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.) ❋ Cmakk (2009)