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. - Paul A. Offit
One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.
- Paul A. Offit
Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized. - Paul A. Offit
Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on… - Paul A. Offit
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on…
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. - Paul A. Offit
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.
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to b… - Paul A. Offit
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to b…
Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children. - Paul A. Offit
Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.
What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vacc… - Paul A. Offit
What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vacc…
People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it. - Paul A. Offit
People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.
If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis. - Paul A. Offit
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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