5/21/19
Hero Highlight: Maurice Hilleman; At his memorial service, a quote from Hilleman summed up his ethos. “Well, looking back on one’s lifetime, you say, ‘Gee, what have I done—have I done enough for the world to justify having been here?’ That’s a big worry—to people from Montana, at least. And I would say I’m kind of pleased about all this. I would do it over again because there’s great joy in being useful.”
The number of lives that Hilleman’s vaccines have saved is immeasurable—one estimate has put it at 8 million lives each year. His passing marks the end of a life that saved so many millions of others. CDC’s Current Measles cases