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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health QUOTES

1 " In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care. "

― Laurie Garrett , Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

2 " Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness. "

― Laurie Garrett , Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

3 " Public health is not an ideology, religion, or political perspective—indeed, history demonstrates that whenever such forces interfere with or influence public health activities a general worsening of the populace’s well-being usually followed. "

― Laurie Garrett , Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

4 " The Institute of Medicine report hit the public health community like buckets of ice water, waking it up but leaving it shivering in its impoverished, unheated facilities, unable to muster the energy to tackle the problem. "

― Laurie Garrett , Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health