Polio Quotes

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I've crippled more people than polio.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.