Infectious Diseases Society of America
THE National Network for Immunization Information (Infectious
Diseases Society of America) http://www.idsociety.org/vaccine/index.html
The composition of the Steering Committee is:
Samuel L. Katz, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics,
Duke University (Co-Chair)
"Measles can only be prevented by vaccination against the virus."---National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) http://www.whale.to/v/measles90.html
"Knowing that measles often leads to vitamin A loss, we had begun to wonder if Africa's high death rates from measles might also be connected with vitamin A deficiency. To test this, children hospitalized with measles in Tanzania were given vitamin A capsules. The measles death rate fell by half. It was at this point that we discovered, to our astonishment, that a similar experiment had been conducted 50 years earlier in a London hospital - with the same results: medicine too has doors it did not enter, paths it did not take."--Dr. Alfred Sommer