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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. -- Jared Diamond
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -- Albert Einstein
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. -- Lord Byron
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. -- Bill Gates
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. -- William Lilly
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. -- Melinda Gates
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
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. -- Mandy Moore
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. -- Peter Singer
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. -- Mignon McLaughlin
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young. -- John Niven
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. -- Douglas Jerrold
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. -- Kenneth Rogoff
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable. -- Barack Obama
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. -- Francis Schaeffer
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. -- P. G. Wodehouse
My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time -- Muhammad Ali
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles. -- Jenny McCarthy
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do. -- Michael Specter
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. -- Archie Kalokerinos
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. -- P. G. Wodehouse
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently. -- Seth Berkley
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. -- Anthony Fauci
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. -- Anthony Fauci
You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction. -- Rose George
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction. -- Rose George
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. -- Peter Singer
It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems? -- Viera Scheibner
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time. -- Bonnie Bassler
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. -- Seth Berkley
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! -- Mark Twain
Love is sentimental measles. -- Charles Kingsley
autism is more like retina patterns than measles -- Naoki Higashida
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. -- Luther Burbank
Fundamentalists never wonder why, if herpes is sent by "god" to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children -- Fred Woodworth
Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it. -- Leigh Brackett
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! -- Nevil Shute
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us. -- Josh Billings
Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono. -- Bill Maher
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less. -- Avicenna
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion. -- Aldous Huxley
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. -- Ambrose Bierce
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
South Richmond was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches- and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris. -- Tom Robbins
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