“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.”
Charles Gerba
“Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.”
Nikolai Vlasov
“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
Walter Benjamin
“There is no part of the UK that remains unaffected by HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.”
Barry Evans
“If you have cold or flu symptoms, you can't donate because you don't want those viruses to be transmitted through your blood products.”
Jan Gordon
“Bird flu has not been effectively contained. The threat of it mutating so people can transmit it is still there, and the threat is very large.”
Zhong Nanshan
“Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.”
Henk Bekedam
