One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.