“Our community of contagion really is a world community.” — Eula Biss Quote

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.

Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.