If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

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.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

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.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

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.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily fertility control.

I never wore flats: The higher the shoe, the better.

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.