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Quotes About Vaccine

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
~ Jonas Salk
Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.
~ Sean Stephenson
All this tinkering was creating superviruses that did not exist outside the lab and that might be more easily transmissible between different species, or more virulent, or more resistant to any influenza vaccine. Most researchers were insistent that these "gain of function" studies were needed to better understand how the flu virus might evolve, but the federal government saw things differently. These experiments were a security risk.
~ Jeremy Brown
Finally, the nonimmune rubella status should alert the practitioner to immunize for rubella during the postpartum time (since the rubella vaccine is live attenuated and is contraindicated during pregnancy).
~ Eugene Toy
If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity. Contributions to this bank are donations to those who cannot or will not be protected by their own immunity. This is the principle of herd immunity, and it is through herd immunity that mass vaccination becomes far more effective than individual vaccination.
~ Eula Biss
While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.
~ Eula Biss
In 1799 Princess Louisa of Prussia wrote to Jenner asking for 'vaccine' matter (the word comes from the Latin for 'cow'),
~ Andrew Marr
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
~ Jim Carrey
Such ingredients include thimerosal, known to be very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and contact with skin yet still included in multidose flu vaccine despite a legitimate public outcry. Other questionable vaccine ingredients include formaldehyde or formalin, chicken kidney cells and DNA, monosodium glutamate, Octoxynol-9 (Triton X-100), used in spermicides, and polysorbate 80, an emulsifier found
~ Jim Marrs
it's fair to wonder whether pharmaceutical corporations may have manipulated the WHO in an effort to sell swine flu vaccine. These companies had invested millions of dollars researching and developing
~ Jim Marrs
in September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) revealed that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline had released more than eleven gallons of concentrated live polio virus into rivers near Rixen, Belgium. The release, termed accidental, if in fact purposeful, would demonstrate a reliable way to ensure that the polio vaccine continues to be in high demand.
~ Jim Marrs
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and countries around a shared response to the challenge of protecting children against vaccine-preventable illness.
~ Seth Berkley
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
~ Luc Montagnier
Bereft of legal status or protectors, institutionalized children were often the test subjects of choice for medical researchers hoping to discover a new vaccine, prove a new theory, or publish an article in a respected medical journal.
~ Allen M. Hornblum
I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
~ Arsene Wenger
She, Henry Horesman's daughter, was to tell the most important person in this behemoth country, whether or not the vaccine that he'd allowed every person under the age of 20 in the USSR to take (a mind boggling 77 million young people), a vaccine given to him by a scientist from his archenemy - the US - was safe and effective? If it was a flop, or if she misrepresented its efficacy, there would be world war.
~ Lynn Cullen
An army of scientists had been called to evaluate the trial of Jonas Salk's vaccine in American back in 1955. But to evaluate the design and execution of the hugest vaccine trial of all time, and the validity of the results, there was just her (Dorothy Horstmann). No pressure, whatsoever.
~ Lynn Cullen
En 1998, el médico Andrew Wakefield publicó un estudio en la revista The Lancet en el que se relacionaba la vacuna del sarampión, las paperas y la rubéola (la conocida como triple vírica) con el autismo. Después, el estudio se consideró un «fraude meticuloso» y se desposeyó a Wakefield de la autorización para ejercer la medicina.
~ Sam Harris
Sir," I said, "except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
~ Sarah Vowell
In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?
~ John Abramson
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
~ Yann Martel
Education is the vaccine for violence.
~ Edward James Olmos
The corona-vaccine is a new medical trading hegemony; emphatically, the victim of coronavirus thereupon would be the victim of that vaccine certainly.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Time is about to overcome the murderous time of 2020 with the vaccine.
~ Ehsan Sehgal