“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.” PeopleMayChildrenStillsStatesDoneProblemFoundBeliefCausesTermUnitedUnited StatesStudyTakenEuropeRoseWesternRateAwfulCanadaAutismVaccinesCorrelationPolioWestern EuropePolio Vaccine Author:David Oshinsky
“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.” ThinkingNeedsTryingChildrenRealProblemBigsCausesNumbersMistakeStudyFiguresKeysDiseaseEvidenceWideRangeAutismVaccinesBig ProblemsPolio Author:David Oshinsky
“Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenHas BeensDoneHappensDiesSafeTragedyCrowdsProvenVaccinesMeasles Author:David Oshinsky
“I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.” PeopleDoeJobsCertainBehindsLeaderFiguresProductsApproachConceptsAdmireFantasticHivVaccinesInnovatorsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.” ThinkingImaginationTheoryGuidesExperimentsRealmsPhenomenonIntuitiveVaccinesPolioPolio Vaccine Author:Jonas Salk
“There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.” SidesEffectsVaccinesSide Effects Author:Michael Specter
“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.” IfsChildrenSchoolIssuesNew YorkExampleDiseaseOur ChildrenIllYour ChildrenVaccinesContagiousPublic HealthVaccinationsHealth IssuesInfluenzaSchoolmates Author:Michael Specter
“For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.” ChildrenHelpingCommunityNumbersPovertyCuttingCostSafeDiseaseDollarsLifetimeProtectionMedicalTreatmentHospitalsHealthcareVaccinesDoseSave A LifeMedical Treatment Author:Seth Berkley
“I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.” PeopleStoriesKidsWantedLaughingGradesVaccinesDorkyCooties Author:Sloane Crosley
“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.” IfsWayMayGovernmentCommunityChildhoodExampleDiseaseStrongerSpendingResistanceOutcomesNutritionVaccinesExpendituresGovernment SpendingVaccinationsImmunisation Author:Michael Moore
“There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.” IfsWorldWritingYearsGovernmentHappensFunSexPayAttentionOfficePay AttentionSomething NewVaccinesContraceptionOvalHolding BackInvigoratingViagra Author:Dan Savage
“When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.” FirstsStoriesTalkingSonSpendingRecoveryMy TimeMy SonVaccines Author:Jenny McCarthy
“As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.” CommunityPossibilityEssentialsConcernStrategyWestResponseDevelopingVaccinesEpidemicsLiabilityEbolaWest AfricaGlobal Community Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.” WorldIgnoranceLiteracyExploitsVaccinesCharlatansScience Literacy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?” PeopleWayNeedsWellsStillsCountryGovernmentPoorToolsWorkersLinksCrucialProvidingEffectivenessBetter WaysVaccinesShowing UpPoor CountriesHealth ServicesGovernment Workers Author:Bill Gates
“The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.” SuccessfulReturnCostInvestmentBangsBucksVaccinesReturn On InvestmentGlobal Health Author:Seth Berkley
“You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.” MenRichPropertyVaccinesRich Man Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.” Would BeBreakPercentIdealsAidsBroadsVaccinesEpidemicsUsage Author:Bill Gates
“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.” ChildrenSelfPastSocialOur LivesViolenceCrimeSelf EsteemDrugAbuseAlcoholEsteemWelfarePregnancyChild AbuseOur PastVaccinesDependencyPrematureDrug AbusePast Failures Author:John Vasconcellos
“Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.” HumansUsedFoundExistenceCreativityFirePressesWheelsPrintingVaccinesPrinting PressPolioPolio Vaccine Author:Naveen Jain
“When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio.” ThinkingCan DoCancerFluVaccinesPreventionPolioHepatitis Author:Laurie Glimcher
“Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.” Has BeensActingDrugApproachMajorsCancerReleaseCellsKillersImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemBrakeTumorsBlockadesCheckpoints Author:Laurie Glimcher
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates
“There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.” LittlesHellMiracleShockGenesVirusesVaccinesBacteriaAntibiotics Author:Bernie Siegel
“The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.” WayYearsFirstsKindSchoolDealsTalkingTechnologyExampleVirusesVaccinesOld School Author:Carl Zimmer
“After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.” PeopleMeanStillsDealsConsequenceDecidedCurrentsDebateEggsChickensFluVaccinesFlu Vaccine Author:Juan Enriquez
“A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.” ThinkingMenShouldDealsRichShould HaveFellowsConservativeSquaresConservatismVaccinesRich Man Author:Frank Dane
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” ThinkingInspirationalFunJealousyHaving FunJealousVaccinesJealousy EnvyJealousy And EnvyLove JealousyJealous And EnvyFriend JealousyYou Jealous Author:Erica Jong
“If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.” IfsLooksDoneAbleTurnsCostDiseaseCapacityIncreaseCancerCuresCellsExpertsSolitarySimilarityVaccinesComputingGenomeGenomics Author:Joe Biden
“We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.” MenFoundWhiteRichGrowingWhite ManGreedyVaccines Author:Chief Joseph
“The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.” IfsChildrenSpacePiecesBirthPlanningVaccinesSave A LifeFamily Planning Author:Melinda Gates
“In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.” LongHas BeensDifferentStatesRunningUnitedUnited StatesLong TimeMythPlanningAutismLinkedDifferent PlaceVaccinesFamily PlanningVaccinations Author:Melinda Gates
“All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."” PeopleTryingStatesRealizingDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesLuckyDiseaseMythMaking A DifferenceControversyAlways TryingVaccinesOutbreaks Author:Melinda Gates
“Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.” PeopleFindingsAidsCuresTreatmentFundingVaccines Author:Charlize Theron
“I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.” LongWarParticularAgencyVaccinesFdaTug Of War Author:Jill Stein
“Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.” YearsUsedMovementConcernYears AgoRaisedHeavyInfantVaccinesDosePublic HealthMercury Author:Jill Stein
“There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.” EvidenceLinksDisabilityVaccinesDevelopmentalDevelopmental Disabilities Author:Jill Stein
“AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency.” IfsNumbersStageDiseaseAidsDiscoveringCentsEmergenciesVaccines Author:Bill Gates
“Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.” PeopleCompanyCreatingToolsScientistMedicineFundLowestVaccinesCreating Things Author:Bill Gates
“Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.” GivingTakenInformationAreasToolsInsightExpectedAidsFantasticVaccinesPipeline Author:Bill Gates
“Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.” ChildrenHelpingHalfCuttingEconomicPercentRateImprovementVaccinesAcceleration Author:Bill Gates
“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.” WorldHas BeensKidsPoorRichHugeColdCreatingResearchChainsFundingAlliancesDeliveryVaccinesMeningitis Author:Bill Gates
“We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.” NeedsYearsLittlesStillsKidsDifferencesHalfMillionsMissingHugeAdultsKillingDataDozenHivVaccinesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.” GivingFirstsIdeasMotherStrongBornBabyMonthsThirdsExcitingInvestingMilkVery StrongProtectiveImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemAntibodies Author:Bill Gates
“Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.” EnergyTalkingInnovationInvestingThemeBroadsVaccinesBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.” PeopleGivingMeanChildrenFactsCommunityRiskDiseaseMiracleProtectionFantasticSchedulesImmuneVaccinesImmune System Author:Bill Gates
“Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.” ImportantClearConcernSafetyFoundationIncludingDataVaccines Author:Bill Gates
“I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.” TryingUseParentVoiceVaccines Author:Bill Gates
“Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.” PeopleLooksChildrenLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesHelpingProblemPastEnergyUnitedCasesUnited StatesBenefitsEuropeHopefullyStableRefugeeControversyVaccines Author:Bill Gates