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Love is sentimental measles.
Charles Kingsley / Professor
True Love
Love Is
Measles
Sentimental
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse / Writer
Funny
Caught
Golf
Measles
Should
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerome K. Jerome / Writer
Love
Moving On
Love Is
Measles
Teenage Love
Go
Through
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In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
Mignon Mclaughlin / Journalist
Contagious
Habit
Measles
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Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
John Niven /
Caught
Measles
Bug
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
God
Inspirational
Love
Life
Government
Disease
Infantile
Mankind
Measles
Nationalism
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Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Late
Measles
Like
Worse
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron / Baron Byron
Funny
Love
Life
Dangerous
Late
Love Is
Measles
Most
Life Love Love Is
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke / Poet
Love
Love Is
Love You
Measles
Attack
Older
Worse
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Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
Kenneth Rogoff / Professor
Measles
Might
Worry
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Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.
Theresa Tam /
Contagion
Distrust
Measles
Misinformation
Spread
Vaccines
Like
Fast
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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 / Astrologer
Age
Fourth
Infancy
Measles
Talking
Years
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If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.
Tom Frieden /
Increase
Measles
Before
Those
Well
Rates
Stop
Vaccination
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Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
Bill Gates / Investor
Jobs
Kids
Dying
Good Job
Measles
Good Always Start
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Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.
Leigh Brackett / Writer
Cheer
Love Is
Measles
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When you're in a pocket with low vaccination rates, that's when you find yourself at greater risk of getting measles.
Vivek Murthy / Surgeon General Of The United States
Greater
Measles
Risk
Low
Pocket
Rates
Vaccination
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Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
Bill Foster / U.s. Representative
Amount
Bites
Damage
Measles
Sound Bites
Spread
Fast
Tweets
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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 / Model
Autism
Children
Measles
Parent
Versus
Children Parents Who
Sign
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Not enough children being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella because their parents, for whatever reason, have decided that it is voluntary.
Kelly Evans /
Decided
Measles
Voluntary
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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 / Businesswoman
Children
Granted
Having Children
Measles
Polio
Polio Vaccine
Vaccines
Differently
Take For Granted
Vaccine
Your Child
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Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
Michael Specter / Journalist
Cases
Measles
No Idea
Refuse
People Children Never
Cough
Children People Never
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When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
Anthony Fauci /
Measles
Polio
Remember
Vaccines
Child
Actually
Cough
Got
Well
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You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.
Rose George / Journalist
Destruction
Diarrhea
Mass
Mass Destruction
Measles
Weapon
Potent
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
Mandy Moore / Singer-Songwriter
Aids
Children
Disease
Malaria
Measles
Pneumonia
Radar
Years
Combined
Flies
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You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Community
Disease
Graves
Happens
Horrible
Measles
Shallow
Babies
Deficient
Efficiently
Incredibly
Lined
Spreads
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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 / Scientist
Disease
Indian
Literature
Measles
Population
Smallpox
Spread
World
Advance
Diseases
Estimated
Infectious
Introduced
Tribe
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Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
Rose George / Journalist
Aids
Destruction
Diarrhea
Fifteen
Malaria
Mass
Mass Destruction
Measles
Percent
Seconds
Water
Caused
Combined
Contaminated
Weapon
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Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Causes
Diarrhea
Inexpensive
Malaria
Measles
Unicef
According
Nearly
Diseases
Prevent
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Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Causes
Children
Disease
Easy
Five
Inexpensive
Malaria
Measles
Unicef
Die
According
Nearly
Diseases
Million
Prevent
Treat
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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 / Scientist
Acquire
Animal
Camels
Cattle
Disease
Humans
Influenza
Measles
Native
Pigs
Smallpox
Species
Americas
Domesticated
Tb
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt / Poet
Legal
Ethical
Measles
Polio
Too Late
Chicken
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People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician
Health
Belated
Disarmament
Measles
Nuclear
Realization
Seeming
Good Political Me
Aspects
Criticized
Good Schools
Health Insurance
Insurance
Professional
Role
Schools
Step
Vaccine
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Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
Bonnie Bassler / Molecular Biologist
Bacteria
Measles
Population
Chicken
Diseases
Encountered
Infectious
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States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
Phil Gingrey / Former U.s. Representative
Juice
Lunch
Measles
Physicians
Catch
Diseases
Governments
Infected
Require
Shares
State Governments
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Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Cents
Coal
Cost
Measles
Public Good
Best Health Good
Canary
Vaccine
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