(10 quotes found)
“The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.”
William S. Burroughs
“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.”
Ronald Ross
“Some diseases that afflict humans today, such as malaria, gout and cancer, are truly ancient and were handed down to us from our distant ancestors. By studying the distribution of these diseases in other living and fossil organisms, we can gain insights into the nature of these diseases.”
Christopher Beard
“Deaths from malaria have doubled over the last 20 years,”
Bill Gates
“Colonizers escaped (to mountainous areas) to avoid the swamps that bred malaria. Those areas are no longer safe,”
Paul Epstein
“Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.”
Youssou N'Dour
“Malaria actually could be fixed. We don't need a miracle drug. We don't need a miracle vaccine. We have the tools now. We actually could save millions of lives.”
Nick White
“For the first time in the history of malaria, there is a real chance that within the next five to 10 years, this killer disease will no longer be a fact of life for many of Africa's poorest people.”
Chris White
“Luckily we're not in a malaria-prone area.”
Andrew Titus
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