health Quotes

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.