Infections Quotes


You couldn't ethically give these [high] doses by the oral route because of toxicity, and also because of the effect on the immune system. They could potentially depress the immune system and leave the patient open to opportunistic infections that could be fatal. - Dr. Aldo T. Iacono


Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV. - Marc Jenkins


With most new HIV infections occurring in youth and women, particularly in communities of color, ignoring the effectiveness of prevention programs while allowing abstinence-only programs to promote ideology over science is negligent and puts young lives on the line. - David Harvey


While it may seem amusing at first, this is really a very serious issue. The more people do their part to control the spread of infections, the less we have to use antibiotics, which lose their potency over time as bacteria develop resistance to them. - Judy Daly


When you start getting the flu it's hard to distinguish it from any other upper respiratory infections so most people don't realize they have flu until past the 48 hour window. - Julie Gerberding


What happens is the cases that we are talking about here have involved elderly people or people with compromised immune systems who come into contact with this water. It can enter the body through a cut or scratch or some kind of abrasion and if it is not treated with antibiotics it can lead to bloodstream or other kinds of infections. - Tom Skinner


We were not in the patrol for a week when a mother came running out of her house frantically. Her three- or four-year-old had dumped boiling water on himself. We treated the burns and brought in stuff to heal the infections. - Sgt. Joey Ward


We should be concerned about medical errors, not the kind when a doctor leaves a scissors in you, or cuts off the wrong arm, but nurses not washing their hands and spreading infections, prescriptions not filled out accurately. Medical errors are attributed to causing as many of a 100,000 deaths a year in North America. - David Ropeik


We now have a total of six patients being treated for suspected bird flu infections. - Ilham Patu


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