Luc Montagnier Quotes

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

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.

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.

If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers simply vaccinate everybody in a ring, miles deep, around a focus of a virus.

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.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

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.

There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection.

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.

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

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.

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

I have spent my entire career in vaccine development, in the government with CDC and BARDA and also in the biotechnology industry.

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

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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.

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.

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.

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

You can't save kids just with vaccines.