George Bernard Shaw Epidemic Quotations

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.