Vaccines
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Bill Gates Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
Vaccines do more than save lives: they can also reduce the use of antibiotics and slow the spread of resistance.
Mark Zuckerberg CEO at Facebook
The science is completely clear: vaccinations work and are important for the health of everyone in our community
Ellen Clayton MD, JD, Professor of Pediatrics and Law at Vanderbilt Law School
The MMR vaccine does not cause autism… The MMR and DTaP do not cause Type 1 diabetes. And the killed flu vaccine does not cause Bell’s palsy, and it does not trigger episodes of asthma.
National Geographic Magazine
If children in poor countries got the shots that rich countries take for granted, hundreds of thousands of young lives could be saved.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services News and information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Privacy policy
One of the best ways to protect your children is to make sure they have all of their vaccinations. Immunizations can save your child’s life and protects others you care about.
UN Foundation United Nations Foundation supporting the United Nations causes
This year, 1.7 million children will die from diseases that have all but disappeared in the U.S. Why? Because one in five children around the world does not have access to the life-saving immunizations needed to survive.
The BMJ Weekly peer-reviewed medical journal
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an elaborate fraud that has done long-lasting damage to public health. The study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study
CDC Global Health United States federal agency
We know that a disease that is apparently under control can suddenly return, because we have seen it happen, in countries like Japan, Australia, and Sweden. Here is an example from Japan. In 1974, about 80% of Japanese children were getting pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. That year there were only 393 cases of whooping cough in the entire country, and not a single pertussis-related death. Then... See More
Amer Acad Pediatrics American professional association of pediatricians
Claims that vaccines are linked to autism, or are unsafe when administered according to the recommended schedule, have been disproven by a robust body of medical literature. Delaying vaccines only leaves a child at risk of disease. Vaccines keep communities healthy, and protect some of the most vulnerable in our society, including the elderly, and children who are too young to be vaccinated or hav... See More
Seth Mnookin Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing
Robert Kennedy Jr made his name in the anti-vaccine movement in 2005, when he published a story alleging a massive conspiracy regarding thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that had been removed from all childhood vaccines except for some variations of the flu vaccine in 2001. In his piece, Kennedy completely ignored an Institute of Medicine immunization safety review on thimerosal published t... See More
David Gorski Surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
The dose makes the poison. Only then will you understand how toxic the myths about vaccines being peddled by antivaccinationists are.
Dr. Peter J. Hotez Dean-National School of Tropical Medicine; Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development
I’m a vaccine scientist. I’m also the father of an adult daughter with autism. Not only is there an abundance of evidence showing that vaccines are safe, there’s not even any plausibility of an association [with autism]
Sanjay Gupta American neurosurgeon and multiple Emmy®-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN
That you are 100 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a serious allergic reaction to the vaccine that protects you against measles is not a matter of opinion. That is also a matter of fact.
Robert De Niro American actor, producer, and director
I take vaccines all the time, and my kids have gotten [vaccinated] but there’s something wrong and its got to be fixed
NFID Non-profit focused on education about infectious diseases
Vaccines are safe and effective. Vaccines are among the safest medical products available and can prevent the suffering and costs associated with infectious diseases. The potential risks associated with the diseases that vaccines prevent are much greater than the potential risks from the vaccines themselves.
Ezekiel Emanuel American oncologist
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.
Shinya Yamanka Japanese stem cell researcher
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.
William Foege American epidemiologist
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
Newt Gingrich Professor, speaker of the united states house of representatives
Perhaps no anti-scientific argument is more dangerous today than the claim put forward by radical environmentalists, most notably Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that childhood vaccinations can cause autism.
Jenny McCarthy American actress, model, television host, author, screenwriter, and anti-vaccine activist
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Alex Pareene splinter, deadspin, gawker, racket teen, salon, wonkette
Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
Seth Berkley CEO of @Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemio
If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
Michael Specter I am a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the book Denialism.
It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.
Paul Offit Professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, co-inve
That he [Trump] would take this next step, which is to take a man who has no expertise about science or vaccines and make him the head of a vaccine safety … committee is truly amazing to me.
Jeffrey Kluger Journalist; editor and writer @Time magazine. Author of 9 books, including Apollo 13.
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.Disagree:
Donald J. Trump President of the USA
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
Gary Johnson Two-term Governor of New Mexico and 2016 Libertarian candidate for President
No to mandatory vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr American radio host, environmental activist, author and attorney specializing in environmental
None of the vaccines have more than a few months of double-blind placebo testing, which will not allow you to spot illnesses like autism that aren’t diagnosed before five years. Second of all, in most vaccines, for example the Gardasil vaccine, they don’t use true placebos.
