“[But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro-Caribbean beats, became popular on the Spanish-speaking island, many local rappers abandoned standard hip-hop breakbeats.] Latinos are children of la rumba, ... When people play drums it gets our attention right away. When we saw that, we realized there wasn't so much interest in hip-hop here anymore. We started to incorporate the ideas we had doing hip-hop with the base of dancehall and reggae en Español.”
Daddy Yankee
“Measles is the most contagious of our infectious diseases.”
Dr. Naomi Kistin
“I ache in my chest. It's pernicious. It's deadly. It gets in there, and it's infectious.”
Paul Allen
“Amanda never stops smiling and I think that has been infectious for our whole team.”
Paul Aiello
“Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.”
Jared Diamond
“It's explosive, it's infectious.”
Peter Gallagher
