Paul A. Offit Quotes

#1. 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.

Paul A. Offit

#2. Your child can die from chickenpox.

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

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#4. When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat.

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#5. The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

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#6. 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.

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

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

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#9. Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

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#10. Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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

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