(10 quotes found)
“Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox”
English Proverb
“The reason this vaccination campaign was undertaken was spurious. It was a mirage, there was no threat of smallpox from Iraq. And that remains a powerfully sad coda to this whole episode.”
William Schaffner
“The whole idea is that if we ever had an emergency situation - say it involved smallpox - we would be able, whatever the location, to augment what states could do.”
Von Roebuck
“The president has made it clear that he was obtaining the smallpox vaccine in his position as commander-in-chief.”
Jeanie Mamo
“Basically, what they're working on here is a smallpox drug. As you know, the vaccine does have a lot of side effects. And this small, tiny basically New York-based company, with its labs out in Oregon, is working on this drug, ... And they just recently announced a contract from the Army -- $1.6 million. It's obviously speculative and somewhere along the line the company is going to have to raise money.”
Peter Cardillo
“I have read that smallpox is not very communicable at all, and that conditions in which it's spread are usually classified as prolonged, intense contact with an infected individual. Is that true?”
Leon Harris
“We're not talking about polio or smallpox. Those diseases were hard to eradicate. We're talking about nutritional diseases. This should be a no-brainer. Provide access to better food and the disease will go away.”
Christopher Wanjek
“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
“Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.”
John Smith
“We're not talking about polio. We're not talking about smallpox. Those diseases were hard to eradicate. We're talking about nutritional diseases. This should be a no-brainer. Provide access to better food, and the disease will go away.”
