Immunization Quotes

• Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

  Seth Berkley

  Children, Yield, Return

  "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
  for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
  There was no satisfactory answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Preparation, Answers, Tetanus

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.” He didn’t even pretend to look surprised. He eased back in his seat, eyes gleaming obsidian. “And you’re telling me this because you’re afraid I might cause an outbreak? Measles or mumps?” “I’m telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn’t right. You haven’t fooled everybody. I’m going to find out what you’re up to. I’m going to expose you.” “Looking forward to it.” I flushed, catching the innuendo too late.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Looks, Too Late

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

  Zbigniew Jaworowski

  Country, Cost, Saving

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• Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.

  Leon Chaitow

  Country, Children, Guarantees That

  Leon Chaitow (2011). “Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)”, p.71, Random House

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