He will live in a vegetative state probably for five years until he dies from something else. Basically, we snuffed out potentially a 75-year-old perfectly normal life because of a false concern that vaccines would do harm, or in their misguided notion that somehow religion teaches us anything other than we should care for our children.

Paul Offit

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When you look at babies that have received aluminum-containing vaccines, you can't even tell the level has gone up.

When Darla Shine talks about how great it was that Darla Shine had measles as a child, what Darla Shine forgets to mention is that Darla Shine gets to tell Darla Shine story because Darla Shine's alive. The ones who died -- we don't hear from them.

At this point, you've had 17 previous studies done in seven countries, three different continents, involving hundreds of thousands of children, i think it's fair to say a truth has emerged.

I think we are at a tipping point, i think people need to realize that a choice not to get a vaccine is not a risk-free choice. It's a choice to take a greater risk, and unfortunately right now, we are experiencing that greater risk.

Do we have to wait until there's a few thousand cases of measles and children start to die. Will that move us ? invariably it is the children who will suffer from our ignorance.

If the bar is set at two doses, which is what Kathryn Edwards need the first time Kathryn Edwards get it, then unfortunately there are going to be some kids who don’t end up fully vaccinated even when their parents do bring them in for that first dose.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not... by Paul Offit

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

It's the Garden of Eden. And what have we done? Brought this viru... by Paul Offit

It's the Garden of Eden. And what have we done? Brought this virus into the Garden of Eden.

But for my children, who are 22 and 20, they not only don't see these (diseases), they didn't grow up with these diseases, for all the talking we do, nothing talks louder than the virus itself or the disease.

So is it possible that people who are asymptomatically shedding polio virus walk into this country? I think it happens all the time, and if enough people choose not to vaccinate, then these diseases come back and that's what we're seeing.

What I do is basically say, 'When you love your child, you bring your child to us to care for your child. By saying you don't want to get vaccines, you are asking me to practice substandard care,'.

And that's what you are seeing now. by Paul Offit

And that's what you are seeing now.

The flu vaccine will prevent influenza virus and the influenza virus only, certainly we see a lot of mixed respiratory virus infections in our hospital. We'll see often two viruses that are infecting at the same time. ... That makes it all the more important that you get your flu vaccine.

When you look at vaccine preventable diseases in general, like the current measles outbreak, the vast majority of children are unvaccinated.