Rand Paul Quotes

I believe that babies should be vaccinated pretty much as soon as they exit the womb.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Talk to your doctor if you or your kids haven't been vaccinated, and follow their recommendations - please.

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

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

I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.

Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.

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

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.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

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

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

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

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.

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

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.

My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.

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