T.K. Naliaka Quotes

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern wha...

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African vi...

The entire world has benefited and prospered since the decisive defeat of Yellow Fever, an unconventional and far-reaching military victory derived from the field medical discoveries of U.S. Army Majo...

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most rel...

If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily business on the street is conducted in four languages, where horse carts...

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by hav...

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their sc...