Episode Transcript: #1261 - Peter Hotez
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And we're alive!
How are you, sir?
How are you?
Good to see you again.
I'm thrilled to be here.
Thanks for doing this, man.
Thanks for having me.
No, I should tell people before we get started, I did not know when I asked you to come back
on that you were heavily involved in this whole vaccine debate.
What I wanted to have you on to talk about is tropical diseases, because I remember when
we did that sci-fi show, you explained to me that some ungodly percentage of people that
live in tropical climates are infected by parasites.
That's right.
Well, my day job is developing vaccines for tropical diseases.
We developed the vaccines no one else will make, because they're for the world's poorest
people.
So we call them tropical diseases, but they're really our diseases of poverty.
The vaccine issue, the advocacy issue around vaccines and autism is kind of a new thing
that I got drawn into just because I'm a parent of an adult daughter with autism and
I make vaccines, so it was a natural that I'd get drawn into it.