INFANT IMMUNIZATIONS - Still Important After All These Years

Before there was a vaccine to prevent Diphtheria, there were an average of over 175 thousand new cases of the disease each year. In 2003, there was one. For Polio, it was an average of 16 thousand new cases a year. In 2003, there were zero. Yet, despite these and similar numbers, a small but vocal number of parents are choosing to keep their children from being immunized. Here to talk about childhood immunizations is Dr. Melinda Wharton, deputy director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Bob Barrett asked Dr. Wharton about the recent controversy about infant immunizations over the years with a growing number of parents opting out.

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