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I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.


Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.


A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.


When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.


There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.


There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.


Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.


Our community of contagion really is a world community.


One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.


My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.


My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.


The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.


I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.


I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.


Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.


Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.


Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.


The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.


We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.


In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.