[Health Beat - Children's Vaccines #15]

Can DescriptionsMaster; Health Beat #15; December; Long; X2236; 1+min

AbstractViewer alert: video of children in critical condition from the disease of pertussis; Health Beat: whooping cough vs vaccine; Tim Johnson introduces the issue of concerns over the infection generally and the use of vaccines to fight infection in children; John Modlin is interviewed about the pertussis vaccine particularly; commercials included; black screen breaks; the whooping cough epidemic in Great Britain is described; a similar series of cases in Maryland is noted; Robert Ancona discusses the situation in Maryland; Tim Johnson talks about the Today's Show report on the D.T.P. program that cautioned against the vaccination for pertussis; Edward Mortimer is interviewed about the details of the controversy; Tim Johnson says he thinks the Today show did not use the best journalism judgment in presentation balance; he also says he thinks the vaccine could be improved but the vaccine as it stands now is vastly better than the prospect of the disease;

OtherAdvertisers include Vaseline and Puritan; In the studio Tom Purdy, William Lowell, Jack Jackson, Judith B. Graceffa, Emmons, S. Levine, Mark Leach, Libe Stril-Rever, Ed Dadulak, Bob Burkett, Howard Rouse, Ellen Boyce, Doug Devitt, Geoffrey Sullivan, George Ellard, Alan Pratt, Marcy Tankersley, Kif Williams, Frank Firnschild, Rich O'Neill, Bill Frewald, Ed Paolino, Sumner Shain, Nancy Maloney, Mary Newsham, Jerry Milot, Susan Shapiro, Roger Sergel;