Mary Dobson > Quotes

“Indeed, antibiotic resistance, a fear predicted by Alexander Fleming when accepting his Nobel Prize for penicillin, is a huge concern for many infectious bacterial diseases in the twenty-first century and has been described as a ‘ticking time bomb’ and the greatest ‘global threat’ of our time.”
― Mary Dobson, Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease

“A number of small mammals are now known to harbour the plague bacillus, and besides prairie dogs, these include ground squirrels, marmots, chipmunks, gerbils and rabbits.”
― Mary Dobson, Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease