Quotes of: Flu Keyword

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Michael Burgess

that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

The Stand

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

Kristi Yamaguchi

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

Chip Conley

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly hig...

Seth Berkley

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

Irwin Redlener

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infecte...

Annie Lennox

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

Night of Cake & Puppets

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before the...

Nathan Wolfe

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because ...

Domenico Dolce

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people rea...

Max Brooks

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Michael E. Mann

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

Harvey V. Fineberg

It's like Sheriff Daniels sneezed, and they all caught the misinformation flu.

The Unholy Cause

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Zygmunt Bauman

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

Anthony Fauci

That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

Champagne and Lemon Drops

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

Toby Jones

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

Robbie Williams