http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/99.08.03/

 

Vaccines – Finding the Balance Between Public Safety and Personal Choice

Opening Statement
Chairman Dan Burton

Panel I

The Honorable David Satcher, M.D.
Surgeon General of the United States

Panel II

Tonya and Gerald Nelson
Indianapolis, Indiana

Rick Rollens
Granite Bay, California

Carola Zitzman
Voice of the Retarded
Salt Lake City, Utah

Antonia C. Spaith
Falls Church, Virginia

Rebecca Cole
PKIDS
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Keith Bergen Van Zandt, M.D.
PKIDS
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Panel III

Ronald Kennedy, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D.
Tufts University
Winchester, Massachusetts

Samuel L. Katz, M.D.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Academy and the Infectious Disease Society of American
Durham, North Carolina

ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED HERE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE.  THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.