This supposed controversy should never have gotten this far:
“It saddened him to see that knowledge was twisted in such a way to play in the hands of the anti-vaccine movement and not really appreciate what vaccines are all about.“They are about protection of individual, but also protection of the society so you achieve ‘herd immunity’.
“Maurice believed in that and it really pained him a lot to see what was happening in the UK.”
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It’s amazing how people who really want to get paid can take such honorable and noble people as this who do so much good and work so hard to villainize them and besmirch their names. I’ll never understand how that happens.
Dr. Hilleman is an inspiration– a Microbe Hunter in our own time. I am so glad this made the BBC News, since they’re having such trouble with the anti-MMR faction over there. I’d love to be able to tell Dr. Hilleman that I have such confidence in his vaccine that my son got it twice! (Not by choice, actually– there was a storage temperature error during shipping of the batch my boy’s first MMR came from, and the state health department let all the docs who used it know, and they let the parents whose kids got vaxed from that batch know. The whole experience made me deeply impressed with the attention to proper recordkeeping in our healthcare system and of course in the professionalism and dedication of our pediatrician’s office.)
I, for one, am so glad I didn’t listen to the scare stories and instead chose evidence-based medicine to protect my family’s health.
noble people mostly don`t get much time for press news and money..
and we just remmber them late.
thanx for the post and the comments
Hamza
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