Vaccines Quotes

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

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

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

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

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.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

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.

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

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.

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.

Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.

Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.

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.

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

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.

When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

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

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

Novel technologies for delivering .. vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

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.

Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.