Vaccinated Quotes

“Merck first distributed the Moraten strain in 1968. Since then, it has been the only measles vaccine used in the United States. Between 1968 and 2006, hundreds of millions of doses have been given. As a result, the number of people infected every year with measles in the United States has decreased from four million to fewer than fifty. Worldwide, the number of people killed by measles every year has decreased from eight million to about five hundred thousand. Measles vaccines save more than seven million lives a year. And the descendants of Kimber Farms’s original flock of chickens, still maintained on the grounds of Merck, are used to make vaccines today.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“Clearly the use of a vaccine in the present does not cause the one who is immunized to share in the immoral intention or action of those who carried out the abortion in the past. Human history is filled with injustice. Acts of wrongdoing in the past regularly rebound to the benefit of descendents who had no hand in the original crimes. It would be a high standard indeed if we were to require all benefits that we receive in the present to be completely free of every immorality in the past.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“Recognizing a familiar accent, he asked Lamoreux where he was from. “Helena,” said Lamoreux. “Miles City,” replied Hilleman, extending his hand. “Take them all,” said Lamoreux, smiling broadly. “One buck apiece.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“In the early 1960s, when Maurice Hilleman wanted to make his vaccine, measles virus was killing eight million children in the world every year.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“Today we see studies on mentally retarded children as monstrous.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“Jonas Salk tested early preparations of his polio vaccine in retarded children at the Polk State School outside of Pittsburgh. At the time of Salk’s experiments, no one in the government, the public, or the media objected to such testing. Everyone did it. Hilary Koprowski, working for the pharmaceutical company Lederle Laboratories, put his experimental live polio vaccine into chocolate milk and fed it to several retarded children in Petaluma, California,”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

“Wilma Mankiller, chief of the Cherokee Nation, submitted the eighty-five-letter Cherokee alphabet, hoping that her language would still be spoken a hundred years from now.”
― Paul A. Offit, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases