When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.
It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.
Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.
Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.
There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.
