I saw the segment as well. I work for a public health department but am divided on the vaccine issue. I have friends who don't vaccinate and friends who do.

Have any of your children gotten any of the childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox? We all got them when younger - and survived. But when I was growing up, I think children in general may have been healthier and immune systems were better able to deal with diseases.

Why are teenagers just now starting to get the whooping cough if they have historically not been vaccinated against it during the teenage years?

1. Is it because immune systems in general are so weak because of our junk food diets and we are all just waiting for the next big epidemic to overtake us?

2. Or is it because a certain number of teenagers have always gotten it and it just went undiagnosed or under reported?

3. Or is there a greater incidence of it in the 20% that are not being vaccinated as children and it is spreading to other parts of the population?

4. Or are children who have already been vaccinated against it still contracting it and passing it onto others?

Vaccinations remain a big debate in my mind. I know folks who are adamantly pro and con vaccination and both sides seem to have valid arguments. The debate continues...

Remember the news is usually one sided, and pro-vaccine and pro-medicine. Don't let the news scare you.

Keep yourself and your kids healthy. Even if a child did get whooping cough there are ways to heal quickly from it...

Take into consideration that even kids that are vaccinated against this disease, still get it. I was vaccinated as a child and I still got whooping cough as a child.

No vaccine is safe, it is forced un naturally into a childs body and is full of un natural ingredients. At least the disease occurs naturally.

If kids are not vaccinated, eat a whole foods diet, don't consume excess amounts of sugar, preservatives and artificial colors and flavours they will be by far healthier than their peers, and if disease is contracted they will recover quickly and with less complications.

When I first started on my crusade of health, I was usually swayed by fear tactics of the media, especially regarding vaccines. I mean know wants to think they are harming their kids. But, do tons of research, and you will find that vaccines are so dangerous and harmful that you will rest assured in your decision to not vaccinate.

Cheers! :-)