Peter Hotez

American vaccinologist

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The US already has the most advanced sophisticated system of vaccine monitoring the world has ever seen, with multiple redundant systems in place,
  • said Hotez, who is also dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine
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The real vulnerability is in infants between 6 and 11 months of age, as maternal antibody is waning and they haven’t gotten their first dose of the MMR vaccine,
These vaccines are incredibly safe, very effective, and have historically led to the elimination of the diseases they’re designed to prevent,
I see this as a ploy to further erode public confidence in vaccines and ensure vaccination rates continue to decline and bring the diseases back, which has already started to happen,
  • said Dr. Peter Hotez, a senior fellow in disease and humanity at the Baker Institute at Rice University
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For all practical purposes measles has returned to the United States, both in terms of cases and hospitalizations, as well as two needless deaths.
  • Adds Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine
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My neighbors look at me like I’m absolutely nuts the way I’m dressed in this hot weather, but I don’t want to get what Tony got, which is pretty severe illness if you’re over 65 from West Nile,
  • said Hotez, director of the Center of Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital
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Earlier

CDC urges people to prevent mosquito bites as West Nile virus season hits a strong, early start

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Much of the country is sizzling under record heat, but Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease specialist in Houston, is heading out for his early morning walks as covered up as possible in a t-shirt, a hooded sweatshirt, a hat, sweatpants, socks and sneakers

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American passenger on hantavirus-hit cruise feels ‘blindsided’ and ‘misled’ by new quarantine orders

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The scientists, wearing bright blue gloves and surgical masks, checked the 150 box traps they had set out the previous night, dropping dead rats into black plastic bags that they hoisted into pickup trucks bound for a makeshift lab where they said they’d draw blood samples

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