Vaccines Quotes - Page 8

• We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Data

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Drug

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

  Bill Gates

  Adoption, Drug, Risk

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

  Carl Zimmer

  Old School, Technology, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

  Juan Enriquez

  Mean, Eggs, Flu Vaccine

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, Hero, Thinking

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• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  Samora Machel

  Dog, Men, Medicine

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

  Greg Graffin

  World, Want, Kind

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk about it. When it was discovered in the north, very quickly actions were taken to do something about it. Right now there's discussion of putting serious effort into developing a malaria vaccine, because global warming might extend malaria to the rich countries, so something should be done about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Taken, Rich Countries

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

  Bernie Siegel

  Miracle, Viruses, Antibiotics

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Tom Harkin

  Our Veterans, Giving, President

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• Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.

  Viera Scheibner

  Baby, Children, Animal

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• You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

  Hal Holbrook

  War, People, Want

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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, Adults

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Cancer, Space, Aids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Daughter, Stupid

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bachmann to Bash Perry; NBC Debate Coverage Promotes GOP Infighting". Transcript of the Interview with Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. September 13, 2011.

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  Drinking, School, Safety

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• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

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• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

  Imelda Marcos

  Reality, Rich, Poor

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

  Jules Henry

  Successful, Animal, Trying

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• I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

  Syd Barrett

  Rich, My Friends, Lots Of Money

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’

  David Barton

  Hey, Body, Bears

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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, Media

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

  Atul Gawande

  Running, Government, Organization

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.37, Profile Books

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