Paul A. Offit Quotes

• For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

  Paul A. Offit

  Mother, Thinking, Erosion

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, Makers, Bigs

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Your child can die from chickenpox.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Your Children, Our Children

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

  Paul A. Offit

  Skins, Noses, Bacteria

  "Paul Offit On The Anti-Vaccine Movement". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 7, 2011.

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• Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Giving, Adults

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, Dollars, Ears

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Anger, Parent

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• Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

  Paul A. Offit

  Kids, Thinking, Vaccines

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

  Paul A. Offit

  Pneumonia, Risk, Adults

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

  Paul A. Offit

  Bacteria, Protein

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, People, Giving

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

  Paul A. Offit

  Going Away, Chance, Week

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

  Paul A. Offit

  Pneumonia, Flu

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

  Paul A. Offit

  Flu Vaccine, Vaccines, Flu

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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