Melissa Shepherd

“Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning. Penicillin, he advised, needed to be administered with care because the bacteria susceptible to it were likely to develop resistance. The selective pressure of so powerful a medicine would make it inevitable.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“Epidemics afflict societies through the specific vulnerabilities people have created by their relationships with the environment, other species, and each other.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“Hypocrisy in search of social acceptance erodes your self-respect.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Such pervasive and violent opposition to the city’s public health program prevented the plan from being implemented as every municipal initiative provoked a violent backlash and drove Naples to a state of near anarchy. The Times of London commented that the port was afflicted with something worse than cholera—“medieval ignorance and superstition.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present