Eula Biss Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.