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Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11) QUOTES

Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11) QUOTES

1 " process called cytokine storm. It’s when the body’s immune system senses the virus antigens and then goes berserk, releasing a bevy of extraordinarily damaging hormonelike proteins. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

2 " Although pharma is expanding in China by replacing local remedies, prices are being controlled. Here in the United States that’s not the case, because your politicians are dependent on pharma campaign donations. There is much more money to be made here in all aspects of healthcare, even if there are more problems with labor. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

3 " With CRISPR/CAS9, any gene whose sequence is known can be removed, replaced, turned on, or turned off, and all this can be done in the equivalent of someone’s garage. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

4 " Back in the disastrous flu pandemic of 1918 that killed upward of one hundred million people, there were stories of asymptomatic people getting on the subway in Brooklyn and being dead from viral pneumonia by the time they got to Manhattan. Whether such stories were apocryphal or not no one knows for sure, but I think they were true because of the virulence of that particular flu strain. What is believed now is that they died from their own immune systems going wild in what is called a cytokine storm. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

5 " Haven’t you ever heard of the 1918 flu pandemic? It killed more people than World War One and World War Two combined. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

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― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)

7 " Vaccines in general and MMR in particular do not cause autism, period, end of story. "

― Robin Cook , Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)