The Pandemic Century Quotes

“Unless and until we take account of the ecological, immunological, and behavioural factors that govern the emergence and spread of novel pathogens, our knowledge of such microbes and their connection to disease is bound to be partial and incomplete.”
― Mark Honigsbaum, The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19

“wars have been seen as progenitors of deadly outbreaks of infectious disease”
― Mark Honigsbaum, The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

“It is also because of the tendency of medical researchers to become prisoners of particular paradigms and theories of disease causation, blinding them to the threats posed by pathogens both known and unknown.”
― Mark Honigsbaum, The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris