Vaccine Quotations
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Argument Quotes
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.
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Against Quotes
We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain, and we know it will occur, but we don't know when or even exactly what virus will cause it. It is possible that the virus won't be H5N1 at all or that this virus will change in a way so that the vaccine under development doesn't work against it.
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Additional Quotes
We have put out a request for proposals, and are currently evaluating them from manufacturers, to determine how much additional vaccine could be produced over the next couple of months so as not to interfere with flu vaccine for the upcoming fall or the following year's flu vaccine.
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Against Quotes
One of the potential uses we envision is to use the ART treatment as a way to use tumor components to immunize cancer patients against their own cancer cells, ... The current problem with this treatment strategy is that the tumor gives off a variety of soluble products which we don't fully understand, but which we know wreck havoc on the immune system by suppressing its various components. If we can use the ART drugs to increase the number of newly produced T cells in cancer patients first, we can potentially improve the likelihood of getting a cancer vaccine to work.
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Along Quotes
Basically, what they're working on here is a smallpox drug. As you know, the vaccine does have a lot of side effects. And this small, tiny basically New York-based company, with its labs out in Oregon, is working on this drug, ... And they just recently announced a contract from the Army -- $1.6 million. It's obviously speculative and somewhere along the line the company is going to have to raise money.
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Beginning Quotes
Well, we're just at the beginning of the flu season, so we can't predict whether this is going to be a serious year or not, ... We have 20 million more doses of flu vaccine to get out there, and our goal is to get those doses to the people who need it the most before the season really speeds up.
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Children Quotes
We have long since recognized the need for a safe and effective rotavirus vaccine and the significant impact that it can have throughout the world. Because of dehydration due to rotavirus infections, more than 600,000 infants and young children die each year. While most deaths are in developing countries, hospitalizations in Europe are common.
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Chronic Quotes
We're encouraging people to hang in there. In Missouri, the flu season doesn't peak until January or February, and it takes about two weeks for the vaccine to take full effect, so there really is plenty of time for most people. There still is some concern for high-risk groups, who should have been first in line. Those are the folks we're encouraging to stay on the line with physicians and with county health departments to find out where the vaccine will be. But for the rest of us who are healthy and don't have a chronic illness or health problems, there really is plenty of time. We just need to be patient.
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Age And Aging Quotes
With about 2.7 million episodes of rotavirus occurring each year among children under age five in the U.S., this ACIP decision highlights the importance of rotavirus disease prevention and adds this needed vaccine to the current pediatric immunization schedule. Merck is proud that its 15 years of research and development resulted in the availability of this vaccine. For the past several years we have been producing ROTATEQ and plan to meet the anticipated demand for the vaccine following this recommendation from the ACIP.
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Community Quotes
We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.
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Against Quotes
To put things in perspective, you must remember that it is estimated that between one and three million kids, mainly, die of malaria every year in the endemic regions. So a vaccine that can protect with a 50 percent efficacy against the severe form of the disease has the possibility of protecting against many of these deaths,