Pardis Sabeti

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

Iranian Scientist

Paul Johnson

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

British Journalist

Skrillex

The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

American Musician

Harald zur Hausen

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

German Scientist

Roberto Aguire

My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.

Mexican Actor

Jaboukie Young-White

There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it.

American Comedian

Seth Berkley

By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.

American Scientist

Sai Baba

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Indian Leader

Sid Sriram

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

Indian Musician

Tom McCarthy

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

American Director

Infectious suggests direct spreading from one person to another, not through air like 'airborne'.

Direct Transmission

'Infectious' often involves being physically close to the source of infection.

Physical Proximity

Using 'infectious' implies a need for precautions to protect oneself and others.

Protective Measures

When referring to emotions, 'infectious' highlights positive spreading of feelings.

Positive Spread

'Infectious' shows how someone's mood or behavior can influence others around them.

Influence

The medical context of 'infectious' highlights risk and the need for caution and safety.

Medical Caution

Use 'infectious' to convey a level of risk requiring specialized handling or procedures.

Associated Risk

In technology, 'infectious' implies a threat that can spread in a system rapidly.

Tech Jargon

'Infectious' indicates the capability of software to replicate or spread quickly and uncontrollably.

Rapid Spread

The term is associated with significant security concerns in the computing context.

Security Concern

 stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity, which in turn releases more energy as heat. That increases your overall temperature, a protective mechanism that makes your body less habitable for infectious agents. Like with running, sweating helps your body vent that heat. When the fever's over or you've won your race,

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 This multi-pronged approach to bacterial management is one of the main reasons why we're not sick all the time. Even though mucus protects against the infectious bacteria, the vast majority of your body's bacterial tenants are not harmful, and many are actually beneficial.

How mucus keeps us...

 - and that kindness is infectious and to them that was the coolest thing ever but the truth is I didn't realize the potential of these cards until one day I was coming home from school and it was really hot and there were these community service workers on the street

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 being willing to talk about medical errors, will increase patient trust, improve health outcomes, and reduce malpractice. That openness, that trust, is only going to be more important as we move from the infectious to the behavioral model of disease.

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 sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,

Is human evolution...

 We use them to cure infectious diseases, but also to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. Without antibiotics, even routine medical procedures can lead to life-threatening infections.

How can we solve the...

 Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures

When is a pandemic over?

 but as a challenge, and this has led to a very important insight for all of we have control over the way we age all the way down into our cells. OK, now our initial curiosity became infectious.

The science of cells...

 mass sickness and devastation. But as much tragedy as the disease has caused, it also helped drive crucial scientific and social progress. Plague is an infectious disease

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 an all-clear signal when a threat or danger has passed whatever the meaning it's certainly infectious