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 MoreDisagree:
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.
