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Paul A. Offit Biography

Paul A. Offit (born 27 March 1951) is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF).

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One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

2000, 6000, Bacteria, Bacterium, Protein, Proteins

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Adults, Generally, Kid, Kids, Thinking, Vaccines

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

Anger, Children, Chosen, Parent, Parents

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

Away, Flu, Flu Vaccine, Underutilized, Vaccines

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Adults, Children, Disease, Give, Giving, Pertussis

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

Cross, Dollars, Ears, Pneumococcal, Vaccine, Vaccines

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

Bigs, Blockbusters, Given, Life, Makers, Vaccines

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

Away, Chance, Cough, Going Away, Lasted, Week

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Chickenpox, Child, Children, Die, Our Children, Your Children

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

Erosion, Faith, Mother, Pharmaceutical, Thinking

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Delay, Give, Giving, People, Reticent, Vaccines

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Adults, Pneumonia, Raises, Risk

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Bacterial, Definitely, Flu, Pneumonia, Pneumonias

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

Bacteria, Canal, Enter, Noses, Skins, Trillions

Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

Blood, Effects, Heart, Tolerable, Using, Vaccines