Robert Belshe People Quotations

People who were vaccinated many decades ago are probably partially protected, but not completely protected against smallpox.

Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.

There's a lot of people who should not be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine.

The number of humans infected by other people is, if not zero, very close to zero.

It takes a fair amount of restraint using two people to hold down a 3-year-old and give 'em an injection. It's such an easier vaccine to deliver in children. The babies aren't crying. The moms leave our office happy.