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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All - Paul A. Offit Reading the introduction online. Here is Paul talking about the danger. http://youtu.be/ve0hEyjc8HwHere is the news related to the un-vaccine children. http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/news/20090123/hib-outbreak-kills-unvaccinated-childMeasles 2008 San Diego: http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/news/20100322/vaccination-choice-affects-other-kids-tooI'm 100% convinced that anti-vaccination making children vulnerable disease that is preventable by vaccine. The ignorant of people involve in anti-vaccine movement are not only putting their own children at risk, but other people children too.This is a worthwhile read, even by the introduction. And anyone who care about children should read about it. Finished the Introduction and Chapter One. The anti-vaccine movement started with a bias but popular documentary. (page 12)Here is the writer talking more on vaccine. http://youtu.be/9tjS-Bj_eF0Chapter 2 is on how the anti-vaccine movement played. The law suits and the shutting down of vaccine productions in the US that lead to government step in with the law. It is a mess. (page 24)Chapter 3. Pertussis vaccine finally proved to be innocent in 1991. The making of pertussis vaccine has been improved in te 90s as well. In 2006, Samuel Berkovic published a paper and found epilepsy and mental retardation link to a gene SCNIA. So it is not vaccine that caused the problem. No television or reporter is interested in the truth enough to make it known to public. When they finally found that what caused the children sickness, which is by the way, not by the vaccine. Not one newspaper or public media is interested in the story. A lot of parents in the developed world were still have false belief that life saving vaccine is harmful in someway. This actually cause harm. But without further research, parents who rely on the newspaper and television for information would continue to be misinformed.I would pick this up on Chapter 4 later. If you read this and know anyone who hold false belief on vaccine, please let them know the knowledge you learned from this book. This is real threat to have children going without vaccination. Update. I just found this, Dr. Paul Offit on the Dangers of the Anti-Vaccine Movement and it is pretty good. He talked about what he said in detail in this book.