Eula Biss Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

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

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

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.

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

Most parents vaccinate their kids. That is the bottom line.

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.

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

We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.

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.'

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.

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

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.

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.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

If smallpox were a threat just to individuals, then it could be left up to individuals to decide whether or not they want to protect themselves.