“ Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better. T.K. Naliaka
“ Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. T.K. Naliaka
“ 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? T.K. Naliaka
“ Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger. T.K. Naliaka
“ Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire. T.K. Naliaka
“ 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… T.K. Naliaka
“ In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones. William Crawford Gorgas
“ Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, an… William Crawford Gorgas
“ My dear Gorgas,Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sle… William Crawford Gorgas
“ The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an e… William Crawford Gorgas
“ It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the Pu… William Crawford Gorgas
“ But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A ma… William Crawford Gorgas
“ Will Brazilian antigambiae measures succeed in Africa? As time goes by it will almost certainly be found that an increasing number of areas can be cleaned of gambiae and be freed of gambiae-transmitte… Fred Lowe Soper
“ It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious. T.K. Naliaka
“ He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet. Thomas W. Martin
“ If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans. Steven Magee
“ Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of mi… Ronald Ross
“ Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradication… T.K. Naliaka
“ His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible. Thomas W. Martin
“ Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated. Fred Lowe Soper
