Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 124 minutes

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The wait is finally over: this week we are very excited to bring you the episode we’ve been teasing for weeks: vaccines! This week and next (you don’t have to wait a full two weeks for the next episode!), we are presenting a two-part series on vaccines. In today’s episode, we dive deep into the biology of vaccines, from how they stimulate your (amazing) immune system to protect you, to how they make you into an almost-superhero, shielding the innocents around you from deadly infections. We take you back hundreds, nay, thousands of years to when something akin to vaccination first began, and then we walk along the long road of vaccine development to see just how massive an impact vaccines have had on the modern world. The best part? We are joined by not one, but two experts from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Gail Rodgers and Dr. Padmini Srikantiah explain the process of vaccine development, highlight the challenges of vaccine deployment, and shine a hopeful light on the future of vaccines. And be sure to tune in next week for part 2 where we’ll focus on vaccine hesitancy and address common misconceptions surrounding vaccines in even more depth. For more information on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initiatives, visit: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ For more information on vaccines currently in development, check out: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ and https://www.who.int/immunization/research/vaccine_pipeline_tracker_spreadsheet/en/ And, as always, you can find all of the sources we used in this episode on our website: http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/episodes/

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:04.2	I am one of the increasingly rare old timers who lived during the pre-vaccination era.
0:13.1	I am the second to the last of 13 siblings.
0:16.4	Five of them died of vaccine preventable diseases in infancy.
0:20.7	Born to poor immigrant parents, I remember well my mother's account of the causes of their
0:25.2	deaths, three from pertussis, and two from measles.
0:30.7	Even after many years had passed, she spoke of the death of her angels with a great deal
0:35.0	of emotion.
0:36.4	Imagine losing not one, two, three, or four, but five babies.
0:42.6	It was common in the pre-vaccine era.
0:45.3	Like our family, many families lost several children to these diseases.
0:49.6	We forget.
0:51.1	Time blurs our memories of these common tragedies of yesterday year.
0:55.0	I remember well during the winter and spring of each year, hearing the whoop of pertussis
0:59.4	and movie theaters, school assemblies, and assorted gatherings.
1:03.3	Today few have ever heard this, and those who have forget.
1:08.1	I remember the summer outbreaks of polio, the crippled children who could no longer walk
1:12.2	or walk with limb-distorted limbs.
1:15.8	As a third and fourth year medical student, I remember answering the appeals of hospital
1:20.0	administrators who could not find the nursing staff for special duty tending to the needs
1:24.3	of polio patients in iron lungs.
1:27.2	We forget.
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