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You can't save kids just with vaccines.

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

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

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

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.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.