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If you had asked me this question five or six years ago, I would have said that the risk was virtually nonexistent, over the past several years, with more and more children being withheld from vaccinations and more and more introduction of measles, I would have said it’s still very low. But today, in the context of the Disneyland outbreak, with it having spread to so many states, I would still acknowledge that the risk is low but it’s much larger than it was, and I would be nervous about that.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

An unvaccinated child will be exposed to risk everywhere, but more so in certain circumstances than in others, for example, more so in Colorado than in Mississippi. But I don’t think you’re going to get a recommendation with a capital R from the CDC or the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

And interestingly, it’s Mississippi, last in so many things, that is first in immunization rates, because that state does not allow either personal belief or religious exemptions.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

I think the Disneyland outbreak clearly has brought this issue to everyone’s forceful attention, and it’s got to be recognized how fragile was our triumph in eliminating measles from the United States, which we had been successful at doing.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

Measles kills, and it’s also the easiest to catch. It’s the single most transmissible virus we know, and that accounts for the fact that it’s spreading so rapidly among these kids.

William Schaffner

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

Imagine a house with all the furniture and people taken out — you're left with an empty shell that is easier to populate than just building a house from scratch, in the same way, decellularized dermis provides a scaffold that the body can try to populate with its own cells. The good thing about decellularized dermis is that it has a structure and composition that the human body is already used to — the body responds more favorably to what it is used to than what it isn't.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

We had a patient, a 92-year-old lady, who had a skin ulcer for 20 years, even after getting treated with various dressings, after we treated her with decellularized dermis, she healed within four weeks.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

A chronic wound is one that has not healed for six to eight weeks, or in some cases years, no matter how many dressings are placed on them.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

You can try and re-engineer human skin, but the holy grail of skin substitutes would be to get something as beautiful and perfect as what the human body has already created.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

The skin is the largest organ in the human body, and the skin we work with is just like any other organ donated by people.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

We live in complicated times.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

There are villages that have been effectively deserted in the last few days.

Abdullah Samer al Mashour

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

The project will help poor mothers learn how to improve the nutrition of their young children and also provide an income supplement to enable them to better act on that learning.

Johannes Zutt

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We don't have that far to go to get into one of the top ten snowiest winters.

National Weather Service

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

It's irritating, but I've decided if I'm going to get to work, I have to deal with it, i just have to get through it.

Gabby Whitaker

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Everything is normal now even through there is snow, i got used to it.

Jad David

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

I am disappointed to hear that the MBTA and commuter rail are currently struggling to provide service due to weather conditions, the MBTA's condition and performance is concerning, reinforcing the need for riders to stay at home.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We are seeing heightened nervousness over the Greek elections and the policies that could make or break its EU membership, in addition, the Chinese economic data disappointed and added to the economic global weakness we have been seeing.

Andre Bakhos

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

In this case, the Court refuses even to grant a temporary stay when it will resolve the issue at hand in several months.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I would have shown the people of Alabama the respect they deserve and preserved the status quo while the Court resolves this important Constitutional question.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
10 years ago

If we found microbes, it would have an effect on science, especially biology, by universalizing biology, we only have one case of biology on Earth. It's all related. It's all DNA-based. If we found an independent example on Mars or Europa, we have a chance of forming a universal biology.

Host Alien Life -RSB- Dick

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

There is also the question of what I call astro-ethics, how do you treat alien life? How do you treat it differently, ranging from microbes to intelligence? So we had a philosopher at our symposium talking about the moral status of non-human organisms, talking in relation to animals on Earth and what their status is in relation to us.

Host Alien Life -RSB- Dick

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

For the world economy, without a doubt, weaker oil prices are a plus.

Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

OPEC was much too optimistic on non-OPEC supply, it is reasonable to cut supply growth outside OPEC, given the recent developments in the U.S. rig count.

Carsten Fritsch

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

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