Thomas R. Frieden Quotes

Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

With infectious disease, without vaccines, there's no safety in numbers.

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do.

The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.

In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. “You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine.” Second phase: they say, "Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and lifesaving.

It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

When children are immunized, it's really the beginning of a new day for them.