#measles

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. ↗

— William Lilly

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If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

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Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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