In case you missed it - Maurice Hilleman, A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines

[SidDithers]

A short profile in the NYT last year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/maurice-hilleman-mmr-vaccines-forgotten-hero.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

We live in an epidemiological bubble and are for the most part blissfully unaware of it. Diseases that were routine hazards of childhood for many Americans living today now seem like ancient history. And while every mother could once identify measles in a heartbeat, now even the best hospitals have to call in their eldest staff members to ask: “Is this what we think it is?”

To a remarkable extent, we owe our well-being, and in many cases our lives, to the work of one man and to events that happened 50 years ago this spring.

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The name Maurice Hilleman may not ring a bell. But today 95 percent of American children receive the M.M.R. — the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella that Dr. Hilleman invented, starting with the mumps strain he collected that night from his daughter.

It was by no means his only contribution. At Dr. Hilleman’s death in 2005, other researchers credited him with having saved more lives than any other scientist in the 20th century. Over his career, he devised or substantially improved more than 25 vaccines, including 9 of the 14 now routinely recommended for children.

Celebrity anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and Jenny McCarthy might get more attention, and become household names because of their dumbass crusades, but it is researchers like Dr. Hilleman that are the true heroes of public health.

Dr. Maurice Hilleman.

That's a name that everyone should know.

Sid

[Orrex]

1. I'll bet that Hilleman was a paid shill for the thiemerosal industry.

K/R!

[RobertEarl]

2. He probably got them to remove it

Someone smart sure did.

Who thinks it wise to inject mercury into poor little kids?

Vaccines without mercury or other known toxic heavy metals are a good thing, and smart.

And the fact is, they don't inject mercury much anymore. Cheers!

[Orrex]

3. I'll bet that thimerosal is responsible for those melting starfish

Hell, it probably caused the meltdown at Fukushima.


I've realized that your scribblings only make sense when I assume that you're being facetious, because no one could seriously believe the zany stuff that you post.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. Thimerosil =/= Elemental Mercury.

It's a stabilizer. It's still used in multi-use vials, just not in single use.

It wasn't removed on any scientific basis. It was removed because of public scrutiny. It's still quite common outside the US.

Once again, it is NOT the same thing as elemental mercury (which is a toxic heavy metal that accumulates in the body).

[Orrex]

5. Whatever.

Next you're going to tell me that table salt isn't the same as elemental sodium.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. Beware of dihydrogen oxide.

FACT: EVERY person who has consumed dihydrogen oxide has died.

[Octafish]

6. Is he a Democrat?

Are you a Democrat?

[SidDithers]

7. He's dead...

He died in 2005, right around the time your hero was publishing his amazingly bad "Deadly Immunity".



Sid