Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

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Health & Fitness, Science

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Were you stoked about the history and biology of vaccines we covered in part 1, but left with even more questions? Were you really hoping to hear us talk about anti-vaccine sentiment and address misconceptions about vaccines in detail? Did you want even more expert guest insight?! Well then do we have the episode for you! Today, we delve into the history of the “anti-vaccine movement” which, spoiler alert, is nothing new. With the help of Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development we address some of the most common concerns and questions that arise about vaccines, their safety, and their efficacy. And finally, we hear from Bill Nye The Science Guy about dealing with the challenges of science communication in the modern world when diseases spread as fast as fake news headlines. Y’all. This is the episode you’ve been waiting for. You can follow Dr. Peter Hotez on twitter @PeterHotez and check out his book “Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism” And you can listen to “Science Rules!” the new podcast from Bill Nye the Science Guy, available now on stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/science-rules-with-bill-nye or wherever you are listening to this podcast!

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:07.9	After I did my MD and PhD, I was a pediatric house officer, a resident in Boston, and I was
0:13.4	admitting a child to the hospital every couple of weeks with a horrific disease called
0:19.5	homophilus influenza type B meningitis.
0:22.5	It has the word influenza in it because it used during the 1918 flu pandemic.
0:27.7	It was erroneously thought this was a bacteria that caused it to fluence and not the virus
0:31.8	we know today.
0:32.8	But it turns out it causes a terrible disease.
0:35.9	And I would have to do the spinal tap on those kids, the lumbar puncture.
0:40.0	You would see the pus coming out where cerebral spinal fluid should be, and these children
0:45.4	had terrible outcomes.
0:47.0	They were either deaf or permanent intellectual injuries, and some of the kids didn't make
0:53.5	it.
0:54.5	And this took a tremendous emotional toll on the pediatric house staff as well.
1:02.0	And that was in 1987, 1988.
1:04.7	By the time I finished my residency, a new vaccine had come online that was developed in parallel
1:10.7	at the NIH National Institute of Health and in Rochester by another group.
1:17.1	And within three years, that disease had vanished from the United States.
1:21.2	It was a disease that I talked about to the next generation of house staff purely for
1:27.4	historic interest.
1:28.7	So like the old timers would talk to me about the pthereontetness.
1:32.5	So it just goes to show you the power of vaccines.
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