Quotes About Immunization

It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.

Most parents vaccinate their kids. That is the bottom line.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

During World Immunization Week, we must celebrate our shared results and redouble our efforts to improve the health and lives of people everywhere.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, it's going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It's only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it.

Massachusetts is seeing a surge in the number of unvaccinated children. Last year nearly 1,200 kids entered kindergarten with religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, roughly double the total about a decade ago.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

A measles epidemic in Ireland (over 1,500 reported cases in 2000) has been blamed on Wakefield. Three children died. Fears of an epidemic in Scotland (where Wakefield once practiced medicine) and England were also fueled by Wakefield's claims. Cases of measles in England rose to a 20-year high following the collapse in MMR immunization rates.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

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 do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases.

The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

There is a clear message that is coming through. This [CoVID-19] is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Sources: Wikipedia's entries on "Malaria," "Polio," "Cholera," "Typhoid fever," "Measles

I believe that babies should be vaccinated pretty much as soon as they exit the womb.

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

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Talk to your doctor if you or your kids haven't been vaccinated, and follow their recommendations - please.