21 Tuberculosis Quotes for You to Enjoy

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa

Today Feeling Unwanted Rather Disease Tuberculosis Being Biggest Leprosy

Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights. Tedros Adhanom

Progress Witness Programs Incredible Combat Over Globe Around Malaria Been Years Tuberculosis HIV Africa Worked Fights

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness. Andrea Barrett

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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. Barry Marshall

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It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines. Diana Rigg

People Remember Opportunity Every Other Wild Extremely About Cough Taking Over Lines Tuberculosis Died After Play Every Opportunity

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down. Engelbert Humperdinck

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. Kathryn Harrison

Lion Me Eyes Vision Daughter Animals Become Gave Mad Out Vampires Able Had He Like Read Been Blood Tuberculosis Famous Anything Then Who Found Her Biography Monk

My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis. Kelsey Chow

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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis. Luis Alberto Urrea

Boy Left Tuberculosis Wonderland Dying Little Four

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won. Matthew Desmond

Time Battle Writing Losing Living Teeming Took Our Kids Cities About Slums He Wrote Because Without Were Won Heat Tuberculosis Jacob Dying Toes Homes Philadelphia

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. Max Heindel

Life Result Cancer Past Hysteria Were Erratic Past Life Tuberculosis Found

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas! Nicholas Kristof

Work Day Mines Visited Out Some Angola Clear Countries Been Bananas Sniff Times Trained Tuberculosis Human Land Much

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. Paul Farmer

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients. Tom Frieden

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Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most. Tom Frieden

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Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. Tom Jones

Think Miner Would Had Yeah Been Tuberculosis Oh Oh Yeah Coal

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