#measles

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

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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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

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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. ↗

— Douglas Jerrold

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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

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Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

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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

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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