| View Larger Image | Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases | Paperbackby Paul A. Offit (Author)
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His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hilleman came close. Maurice Hilleman is the father of modern vaccines. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly deadly diseases—including mumps, rubella, and measles—nearly forgotten. Author Paul A. Offit's rich and lively narrative details Hilleman's research and experiences as the basis for a larger exploration of the development of vaccines, covering two hundred years of medical history and traveling across the globe in the process. The history of vaccines necessarily brings with it a cautionary message, as they have come under assault from those insisting they do more harm than good. Paul Offit clearly and compellingly rebuts these arguments, and, by demonstrating how much the work of Hilleman and others has gained for humanity, shows us how much we have to lose. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)
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Paul "Trust Me" Offit by Novelty_1 (SoCal)  1 Stars
February 10, 2009
This Big Pharma shill is constantly on the TV espousing the wonders of vaccines. What he tries to obfuscate is the fact he benefits financially from the extremely profitable vaccine industry. Here are some facts about Offit.
In August 2000, the Committee on Government Reform of the US Congress issued a highly critical document called Conflict of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making. Dr. Offit was reprimanded by Congress and his actions were a primary focus of the report. The report singled Dr. Offit out for questionable voting as a member of the Advisory Committee ("ACIP") affiliated with CDC that adds new vaccines to the vaccine schedule. The report stated, "Dr. Offit began his tenure on ACIP in October of 1998. Out of four votes pertaining to the ACIP's rotavirus statement, he voted yes three times, including voting for the inclusion of the rotavirus vaccine in the VFC program. In 2006, Dr. Offit's vaccine, Rotateq, was added to the CDC's recommended schedule.
In May 2008, it was reported that, "Later in 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there were 117 confirmed cases of intussusception among recipients of Rotateq between March 2006 and June 2007." The FDA recalled the vaccine from the market, Rotashield.
This "life saving" vaccine was for a disease the primarily affects children living in developing countries. More kids died of the vaccine 117 that die of the disease each year in the USA. Google Offit's name and see what he's really all about! Wake up America, because Big Pharma is going to be pushing more new vaccines every year, like the $900 course of Gardasil that has been getting so much bad press recently for killing and maiming young girls. Read about Texas Governor Rick Perry's role in Gardasil. Read about outbreaks of measles among vaccinated populations. Don't have blind faith in the APA, the CDC or the FDA. Educate yourself!
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A visit to a different world... the US 60 years ago by C. Clark (upstate, California)  5 Stars
September 06, 2008
I love this book. I appreciate the realistic portrayal of Maurice Hilleman and his contemporaries, and how realistic the portrayal of the way vaccines were created in the 1950's, including the fact that the scientists tested out the vaccines on themselves and their families. I think I will always remember the pictures of Hilleman's daughters including the one who had been the host of the mumps virus that her father turned into a vaccine for mumps. It is officially called the Jeryl Lynn mumps strain even today. Hilleman encouraged his daughters to study science.
I also like Dr. Offit's style of writing.
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The author makes millions on vaccine royalties. by B. Howes 1 Stars
June 24, 2008
Paul Offit is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine recently recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC. In most places, this can mean vaccination at gunpoint.
Rotavirus should never be a fatal disease, it is spread by feces, like Polio. Dying of rotavirus means that the child was allowed to starve/dehydrate, and is a result of improper diagnoses and care. Most of the diseases that are vaccinated against could simply be prevented by not eating feces. Get that John Q Public? The food you eat pretty much has feces in it, and instead of clean up squalor, the biggest reason disease is much lower today is because of reduced squalor, instead they want to vaccinate (more profitable than cleaning up messes in society.)
Rotavirus - By the age of five, nearly every child in the world has been infected with rotavirus at least once. However, with each infection, immunity develops, subsequent infections are less severe, and adults are rarely affected. There are seven species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Rotavirus A, the most common, causes more than 90% of infections in humans.
Rotavirus is transmitted by the faecal-oral route.
Not only does Offit offer nothing in the way of solutions for real diseases like cancer, HIV, autism. He is adept at getting the UN and other world government organizations that watch more people killed in Darfur daily than all the people "saved" by a vaccine which "stops" a disease half of everyone by the age of 5 gets and has antibodies for , and is preventable by not eating feces, but he also has sock-puppets review his own books.
People. You've been had. Ever notice how militant vacciners get when you dont get them? If they work so bloody well, whats the big worry if my kids and I get sick and die then? Oh, they come up with excuses & the like. But here is the kicker. Get one of them to simply agree to be self-infected with a bloodstream injection of any of the diseases they claim to be immune against. They wont do it. Most diseases are simply trained to be stronger by the immune systems that have been primed by a vaccine. If its a septic infection or a different, deadlier strain, you'll die, vaccine or not.
In 20 years, vacciners will be like the blood letting barbers of the middle ages. Stupid arcane relics. And diseases will likely be a lot stronger, and any pandemics the vacciners will try and blame on people who refuse. (We people who are free of vaccines will probably survive the pandemic like the Jewish people did by salting the meats during the days of black plague).
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Vaccinated by Secily Torn (Houston, TX) 5 Stars
June 15, 2008
This is the GREATEST book! I have bought 5 more for friends & family members. I wish EVERYONE would read this book- especially in this day & age when people are getting more wary of vaccines.
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True hero by Dick Jenssen (Carnegie, VICTORIA Australia) 5 Stars
April 27, 2008
I think it's fair to say, given the population of the world as some 6 billion, that at least 100 million people have heard of Tiger Woods, or Bruce Willis, or Paris Hilton. But how many know of Maurice Hilleman?
The answer is in Offit's book which is about the idea of, the creation of, the development of, the efficacy of, vaccines and vaccinations. He points out that, due to the vaccines developed in the last fifty years, 'hundreds of millions of children' have been saved from death or serious debilitating illness. The vaccines include those against:
measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, pneumococcus, meningococcus, and haemophilus influenza type B (Hib).
Maurice Hilleman was the creator of ALL these vaccines.
Although Offit's book is about vaccines in general, Hilleman, naturally, figures very prominently, and a major part of the book is devoted to him.
Why he is not more well-known is discussed in the text, but why he was never awarded a Nobel Prize is that when he WAS nominated (for his work in interferon research), 'one member of the committee pointed out that the Nobel Prize in medicine would not be given to anyone who worked for a company', and most of Hilleman's professional life was as a very highly regarded employee - but nonetheless, an employee - of Merck.
This is recommended almost as strongly as David Bainbridge's "Beyond the Zonules of Zinn". It may not be as well-written nor as witty, but it is probably more important in telling the story of a hero who willingly allowed himself to be part of the background because of his inherent modesty.
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