used the polio vaccination drive to track down osama bin laden. the pakistan ambassador said the people are against polio ac mandarin sivaccination, and it'a lot of suffering. >> people who are against t there are two big factors for it. one is the original or the very old anti-family planning propaganda. maybe one of the reasons is that it's containing medicine with family planning in that. or maybe the problem where they were trying to find osama bin laden, the reaction of certain groups to the polio vaccination. i don't think the taliban is responsible, they have not claimed responsibility for it, but they're grossly against it, and we're suffering because of that. >> president hassan rouhani spoke out and said its peoples own beliefs are the reason why they're not looking to create a nuclear system. >> weapons of mass destruction. that's our red line. not because of what some resolution or convention said. we signed the treaty and showed the world we were not after such weapons. even if there were no treaty, our beliefs, our faith, our reasona

people are too scared to vaccinate children with polio. we got a call telling us that vaccinations would proceed today. we hurried to the site but when we get there we only see women waiting. they are public employees, doctors and nurses. by now it is almost noon and nothing has happened. ready but the women are not going anywhere. they just want to go a few hundred meters but they won't move until the global come. -- until the police come. they have been waiting for hours. >> how are they supposed to protect us? we want to send out 12 teams but they've only given us for policemen. if they cannot protect us, we will not go. >> the head of the police patrol within an appearance. they negotiate over each other individual policeman. the staff has no idea if it will get away today. they are supposed to protect the teens. it was not necessary before, but now the situation is different. >> he brings in a real police man who was heavily armed. a simple vaccination mission is starting to look like a military maneuver. the police explained that they

they are all receiving their second round of polio vaccine. she takes the outbreak of polio seriously. >> i do not wish this to happen to my children. this is why we left syria, to protect our children from deceasediseases and polio. >> reporter: the number of vaccine rounds they have received is documented. humanitarian agencies have to repeat this process at every shelter in communities scattered across lebanon. all children under five will be vaccinated regardless of their vaccination history. >> reporter: this is part of the region's largest immunization plan. it was launched after 25 polio cases were verified in syria by the government and international health organizations. fears by syria's neighbors mounted following the outbreak. syrian refugees continue to flee to lebanon every day and polio does not respect borders. the "world health organization" said its difficult to determine how polio got to syria but has an idea of where it originated from. >> the most similar virus from the one we isolated from the children in syria was not foun

in lebanese and syrian children are being immunized. >> getting these two drops of polio vaccine in theth of every child under the age of five is an enormous undertaking. going from tent to tent with the vaccine to carry out this mission. from aleppo she has three children under the age of five. they're all receiving their second round of polio vaccine. she said she takes measures to prevent a polio outbreak seriously. >> i don't wish this to happen to my children. that's why we left syria to protect our children from diseases and polio. this is why we came here. >> each tent housing children who have been vaccinated has been marked. the number of vaccine rounds they have received is also documented. human man tearahumanitarian ageo repeat this in every shelter in communities across lebanon. all children will be vaccinated regardless of their history. >> this is part of the region's largest-ever immunization plan. it was launched after 25 polio cases were verified in syria by the government and international health organizations. fierce by syria's neighbors mounted by the outbreak. refu

keep children have been vaccinated against polio. people are just too scared. a call telling us that vaccinations would proceed today. it reaches the site. we get to the scene when the weekend. police doctors and nurses. i know it's almost noon and nothing has happened. women aren't going anywhere. i just want to go with few hundred meters they won't move until the police come. she's been waiting for hours. in my life how it has to protect chance to stop to ask. i really wanna send out twelve teams in italy given us four policemen. if they can attack a squeal and gone the way police patrolled crittenden appearance. she deals with each individual policemen the staff has no likelihood you'll get away today. while the malays would be one of his sister supposed to protect the teams. it wasn't necessary before but now the situation is different i've gotten a lot of it. if you don't the real policemen heavily armed. a simple vaccination issue starting to look like a military news the police explained that they are overwhelmed and under staffed. it's alleged crime incl

. >> reporter: getting these two drops of polio vaccine into the mouth of every syrian child refugee der the age of five is an enormous undertaking. mobile teams are going tent to tent with the vaccine to carry out this mission. this family from aleppo has three children under the age of five. they are all receiving their second round of polio vaccine. she said she takes measures to the polio outbreak seriously. >> i don't wish this to happen to my children. that's why we left syria, to protect our children from diseases and polio. this is why we came here. >> each tent that has been vaccinated has been parked, and each vaccine is documented. they have to repeat this process in every shelter as hundreds scatter across lebanon. all children under five will be vaccinated regardless of their immunization history. this mass vaccination campaign is part of the region's largest immunization plan. it was launched after 25 polio cases were verified by syria and the world health organization. >> reporter: so far no cases were reported in lebanon. the "world health organization" said its diffic

polio workers since 2012. armed groups oppose pakistan's internationally vaccination program. they say it is a cover for western spying. attacks increased significantly after the ceo used the vaccination drive against osama bin laden. that has led to an increase in polio cases. >>> pakistan's former ambassador to afghanistan said that the people against polio vaccinations are causing a lot of suffering. >> the people there, those who are against it, there are two big factors for it. one is the original or the very old family planning propaganda that is being done by people. they thought maybe one of the reasons is that it's containing medicine in family planning in that, or the problem where it's trying to find osama bin laden, the reaction of certain groups to the polio vaccination. i don't think that the taliban is a whole a lot responsible or claimed responsibility for it, but certainly there are groups who are against it, and we are suffering because of that. >> gunmen have reportedly shot dead a libyan colonel when an officer in the air defense branch targeted police and

some of the vaccines we use today are not as serious like polio, but other new vaccines newer vaccines like influenza type b is a very serious disease. one needs to look at not necessarily small pox or polio as the only model of disease we want to prevent. >> how does disease like hepatitis-b which is rare in the population in general, but certainly among children get on the required rota for infant vaccination. >> if you look at hepatitis-b, a fair amount of transmission was occurrinoccurring from the mom o didn't know that she had hepatitis-b, gave bit to the baby who was infected and then 20 years later whether or not woo come down with cirrhosis of the liver. the transmission of that virus was occurring at birth. the hepatitis-b at birth prevents the mother from transmitting the virus to her child. >> we'll take a short break. when we come back we'll talk more about the cost-benefit analysis about the small number of children who have debilitat debilitating side effects versus the needs of the much larger population that needs immunization. this is inside story. >> welcome back to

there was a polio vaccine campaign worker who was killed back in january trying to give children those much needed vaccines. >> because of the work they were doing or just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong moment? >> what we have seen is hospital and medical workers deliberately targeted. that's what we're calling for an end of. >> can the hospitals, the availability of a hospital, a treatment facility is how bad now? >> we're seeing at least 60% of the hospitals in syria have been damaged and destroyed and are unusable. you have people who have to use a home or medical facility to use, a tremendous strain for them and they're risking their lives to help the people still in the country. >> francine, thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> hard to find a helpful note in all that but the global campaign with syria, illustrated which the work of the artist banksie. >> on march 15th, 2014, the world will wake up to the third anniversary of the bloody conflict of the war in syria. >> with syria's campaign videos being shown in locations all around the world,

doctors say the polio vaccine does not protect children from the disease but stress it's still very important to get it for your child. >>> military aircraft from several countries are over the indian ocean trying to find debris that could be part of the missing malaysia airlines jet. cbs reporter tara mergener reports, there's still no sign of that plane that vanished on march 8. >> reporter: australia's p3 orion aircraft traveled four hours this morning to a remote part of the southern indian ocean. crews are searching the area for two pieces of debris spotted on satellite images sunday that may be connected to missing flight 370. >> we have replanned the search to be visual. so the aircraft flying relatively low, very highly skilled and trained observers looking out of the aircraft windows. >> reporter: the search zone is southwest of perth, australia. in an area called the roaring 40s. 40 degrees south of the equator known for strong westerly winds. because of the distance to and from the location, all military planes involved can only search for two hours per trip due to fuel limitations

. >> unfortunately, doctors say the polio vaccine does not protect children from this disease. but they do stress it's still important to get that vaccine. >>> military aircraft from several countries over the indian ocean looking for signs of the missing malaysian jet. they are in the area where where satellite photos show something. the search zone is so far from land the planes have to get refueled after only about 2 hours in flight. >>> russian president vladimir putin says there is no need for moscow to retaliate against u.s. sanctions over the crisis in the ukraine. he spoke today after president obama ordered a second round of sanctions yesterday. fitch put russia on warning it may be downgraded for credit. russia's stock took a pounding today, as well. >>> an african-american student has filed a claim against san jose state university seeking $5 million. the student was the alleged victim of racial harassment by roommates. more now from joe vazquez. >> reporter: donald dj williams since moved out of the dorm but the legal cases have now officially begun. his family file

vaccination coverage. we got polio. the last polio case there was three years ago, which is an amazing triumph. we've taken the polio quality audit group and we've turned it into a primary health care audit group that's looking at where do workers not show up? where does supply chain not work? why don't people go? india's health is very complicated because they have a lot of these a private sector that's very low quality. and the government hasn't figured out how to get the private sector to be high quality. and yet, they haven't built the capacity in the public sector. but you know, things time is on our side in india. it's just frustrating, you know, they haven't adopted a few new vaccines. that between there's two new vaccines that will save over 400,000 lives per year in just india alone. and they're being quite slow on that issue. so india's great. and in 15 years, you know, we'll probably be out of india because its budget will get bigger and it'll allocate more of it to health. >> why did the -- what result the d

with the smallpox and polio vaccines, it cuts down on cavities by 20 to 40%. people have their teeth. people are used to not being able to. it cut down on cavities and saved a lot of money. it saves $38 in terms of later dental costs. it's enormous. people are worried because flouride is a neurotoxin. i want to talk about it. tremendous level. it is harmful at a high level. we don't have that number that david talks about. in china, they had more and people were developing anxiety and attention deficit. there is no dig study that proves it. what we see in our water, some have it and some don't. look on the label. >> look how complicated flouride is. if you want to keep your teeth that is. >> thousands of americans show they are struggling with obesity. it's a real problem. the doctors will explain why the inability to lose weight from some could have more to do they say with how they are treated at home than with what they are eating. the doctors weigh in. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. l

the effort comes just after at least twelve security personnel for the polio vaccination campaign in the country were killed by militants. the last attempt at peace talks failed to comment on the bus a policeman and a faction of the group claimed to have executed twenty three kidnapped men from the government around paramilitary force the pakistani military responded by bombing and in the identified as nineteen five and its military spokesman said the attacks destroyed a key targets and killed dozens of militants. opposition to town and called on the rug in the waziristan region is growing and security analyst is a huge hussein said the fear of moving military action could very well be behind thailand cease fire offer them open to face but it's not unexpected how could they received in the uk you can use in an op in awkwardness and because of his bomb and on the bed post and the action either by phone on me i think if you want to promote time to dive to the two of them said not to get it he said do what they're trying to do is said that the other is its ceasefire. in recent weeks the

. >> 10 million children in syria, jordan, lebanon, iraq and eye jent set to receive a polio vaccine. syria eradicated polio 20 years ago, but an estimated 60,000 children are sick now after that country's bloody civil war. >> getting these two drop was polio vaccine into the mouth of every child refugee under the age of five is an enormous undertaking. mobile teams are going from tent to tent with the vaccine to carry out this mission. >> deceive have a has three children under the age of five, all receiving their second round of polio vaccine. she says she takes measures to prevent a polio outbreak seriously. >> i don't wish this to happen with my children. we left syria to protect the children from diseases like polio. this is why we came here. >> each tent housing children who have been vaccinated is marked. the number of vaccine rounds is documented. agencies repeat this process in every shelter as hundreds of informal tented communities across lebanon. all children under five will be vaccinated regardless of their immunization history. this mass vaccination campaign is part of t

. >>> free polio vaccination teams in north-west pakistan have been attacked. 12 were killed in the khyber. eight police men protecting the workers. >>> two killed in anti-coup protesters in egypt. one killed, 16 injured in cairo as protesters clashed with police. in alexandria one died, two hurt - the latest escalations in tensions came as a caretaker government was to be sworn in. >> moving to thailand where anti-government protesters reduced the size of their protests. they helped to clean up graffiti. the protest leader said they'll focus demonstrations in the park. tens of thousands demanded that yingluck shinawatra resign. the thai prime minister says she has no plans to stepdown. she's in the north of the country campaigning, where thousands are expected to hold a rally in support. we go to north-east thailand. zeina khodr, this is the heartland, isn't it, of yingluck shinawatra's power base. tell us where you are. >> yes, it is the heart land behind me. you can see people arriving to attend a rally, by her supporters, of the caretaker, they are known as the red shirts. really, this

north-west pakistan funerals were held for security guards killed while they were protecting polio vaccinationrs. the first target a vehicle, and did not kill anyone, minutes later a second blast struck first responders, a child and 10 officers were killed. egypt swore in new ministers following the resignation of cabinet ministers. abdul fatah al-sisi is the defence minister and plans to run in elections. parliamentary elections are planned for the summer. >>> the crisis in ukraine and events unfolding. russian troops are in control of the south-eastern region. moscow's movements were met with international condemnation. the security council held an emergency session. washington wants to see u.n. observers on the ground. president obama called the russian president to expression concerns. the two leaders spoke for 90 minutes. vladimir putin says russia is concerned about the safety of its citizens and asked lawmakers to give him the green light to protect him. we have more on that. >> reporter: foreign military involvement can be approved. barely three hours after vladimir putin requested par

vaccination coverage. we got polio. the last polio case there was three years ago, which is an amazing triumph. we've taken the polio quality audit group and we've turned it into a primary health care audit group that's looking at where do workers not show up? where does supply chain not work? why don't people go? india's health is very complicated because they have a lot of these a private sector that's very low quality. and the government hasn't figured out how to get the private sector to be high quality. and yet, they haven't built the capacity in the public sector. but you know, things time is on our side in india. it's just frustrating, you know, they haven't adopted a few new vaccines. that between there's two new vaccines that will save over 400,000 lives per year in just india alone. and they're being quite slow on that issue. so india's great. and in 15 years, you know, we'll probably be out of india because its budget will get bigger and it'll allocate more of it to health. >> why did the -- what result the d

the first bomb hit a convoy carrying volunteers on a mission to provide the polio vaccine to childrenecond bomb took down the emergency crews who had arrived to help the victims. >>> venezuela, the capital set ablaze and gunfire killing a soldier during fighting between security forces and anti-government protestors. they say they're angry over rising crime, inflation and a shortage of basic goods. >>> mexico, new video providing an inside look at the life of drug lord el chapo guzman, mexico police and dea agents captured him last week. this shows the underground tunnel connecting each of his homes, which helped him after he escaped from prison a decade ago. >>> brazil, hundreds of thousands of people flooding the streets of rio for the start of carnival, a big costume theme this year, soccer as brazil prepares to host the world cup june. >>> a treasure trove of secret documents from the clinton white house has now been made public. what we are learning about the former president and first lady, a potential presidential candidate herself. the whole story in case you missed it. ♪ from

vaccination coverage. we got the last polioase there was three years ago, and we've taken the polio quality turned into a primary health care audit group looking not toward a supply chain out where? india's health is very complicated because they have a lot of private sector that is very low quality. the government hasn't figured out how to get the private sector to be high-quality and yet they haven't built capacity in the public sector. but things are on our side in vienna. it's just frustrating to have a few new vaccines. there's two new vaccines will save over 400,000 lines per year in just india alone and there being quite slow on that issue. so india is great. in 15 years, will probably be out of india because its budget will get bigger and and a lot more of it to. >> what results the delays in preventing and what goes to that? the viruses they are. >> the suspicion -- the bureaucrats really like the status quo. the way the career system works, you are much better off not to change things. so getting somebody to say yes,

in pakistan, the latest attack on a polio vaccination team killed at least 13 people on saturday in northwest pakistan. the provincial governor condemned the killings. martyrs had not come here to attack anyone's house or to carry out any such activity. they had come here to administer life-saving drugs to our children to prevent this disability polio among our people. but they have been brutally killed, which is not the tradition of this region. >> no one claimed responsibility for the attack, but the taliban has previously targeted health workers after it was revealed the cia used a fake vaccination program to help locate osama bin laden. hours after the attack, the pakistani taliban and a month-long cease-fire. talks between the taliban and the government broke down last month. osama bin laden's son-in-law goes on trial today here in new york city. is chargedu ghaith with urging the killing of americans after the september 11 attacks. he is the highest-ranking member of al qaeda to stand trial in the united states following the 9/11 attacks. a member of the cuban five is back in cuba after

and we, i think, need to push forward even with vaccine candidates that don't seem as promising as, say, the polio virus vaccine is, because those vaccines have been extraordinarily effective. they've allowed us to eliminate the disease entirely, and i think we have to acknowledge the fact that we would have a big impact, even if a vaccine was 50% protective. knowing that a vaccine may be years away, what can we do now to lessen the devastating impact this disease has on people's lives? so the way to protect yourself against h.i.v. is to, number one-- know your sexual partner. know that you are in a monogamous relationship with an h.i.v.-negative person, or abstain from sexual intercourse, or always, always use a condom 100% of the time, a good, clean condom that is not in somebody's pocket for the last 10 years before he takes it out, doesn't have a tear on it. it's a good condom, it's used properly. second way not to get h.i.v. is not to use needles, and clearly, not to use needles that are shared with somebody else. you must understand the importance of you. you must understand that for once, y

polio in afghanistan are seeing success. the number of cases has dropped dramatically in the past two years and vaccination programs and slowly expand the icky but there's still a long way to go to reach the global goal of polio medication by two thousand and eight. i was the mm mm mm will we. does. it is. i am i think. so are your worries mainstream cruise right ones are rooted in stunningly beautiful coastal waterway norway's celebrated. unique in the world. what authentic local intelligence and law and common access to the world's most prestigious travelers seeking a miracle district. i know

we see increases is because the further we get from vaccinations and this was the case with the polio vaccine, the more people think i don't need the vaccination. take us back to prior to to 1963. what was it like in the u.s.? >> it was actually really quite serious. if you look prior to the vaccinations that were available in 1963, you would have anywhere from three to four or more million cases of measles in the united states per year, which would lead to about 500 deaths among children, about 50,000 hospitallations and at least a thousand per year of children who have serious chronic illnesses like mental retardation or neurological issues due to enreceive lights. when you go decades down the peek and people don't see the disease, they forget how serious it is. you have that small number of parents, relatively small, but number wise, kind of a lot. if you go down 90% now instead of 99 or 100% compliance with vaccination, meme misinterpret and say the risk of a vaccine is really pretty much i don't want my children to get vaccinated when it is relatively speaking a very, very safe vaccine w

. >> polio is a disease that debilitated tens of thousands of americans from childhood to old age. many patients lived their lives in iron lungs, artificial breathing machines. a vaccineas discovered and polio eradicated from the united states in 1979. some of the calvia children have been found to have a virus similar but not identical to polio. in every case the children have been vaccinated. >> our person is it's a virus. it's unproven. there are other viruses that can do this. the californian department of public health are hard at work trying to figure out what may be causing this. >> there's little information, and nothing that parents can do to protect their children. >> for the most part they are devastated, wanting answers. i think we don't have the answers right now. >> for sophia it is likely she'll never regain the use of her left arm. doctors think the paralysis in other children will be permanent too. >> it was scary. >> sophia is coping. >> she told me all we need is love. >> and that, she adds, is what matters most. >> centres for disease control is searching. so far unsuccessfully for answers. in a statement to al jazeera. the c.b.c. explained that ac

. >> as many as 260 people were disabled by polio every year, but aggressive campaigning to ensure that every child who was vaccinated has paid off. finally making nepal polio free. >> there are 52,000 across nep am, making sure that no killed is messed by going door to door. the eradication of the disease is a personnel achievement. >> i'm happy to hear that polio is being eradicated. we didn't get to play and run around with our friends. >> this is not the first time nepal has been considered free of polio. cross-border transmissions in india in 2005 led to reinfection. it takes three years in no new cases to declare a country polio free. >> nepal, alone cannot do polio free. >> we have polio free zones except pakistan and afghanistan. so long as we a live viruses and these two countries, we cannot be protected. india is also polio free. victims of polio and health activists believe polio will soon be a thing of the past. >> a new report suggests the numbers of executions jumped 15% worldwide. amnesty international says it's largely because of a spike of deaths in iran, because 369 have been known to be put to deat

is a 1.3 million schoolchildren are pioneers.s polio the vaccine was approved in 1955. a colossal success. forget the human nature -- human interest. study, if wethe project future costs of polio to the year 2000, we are looking at $100 billion a year in wheelchairs and i are logs. iron lungs. there is no way the cbo would've seen that coming. andcan do similar analysis -- in smallpox. the point i am making is not only is the cbo advising, it is -- we spent the last quarter century wrangling around on health insurance. say what you want about the merits of the programs. we made a massive financial extent meant -- extent of our commitment without a scientific commitment. even as we have extended health insurance to everybody, the number of drugs and medical vices have plummeted. devices have plummeted. the experience of minor surgery is scary. the biggest cost overhang staring at us is alzheimer's. headed for a cumulative trust -- cost of $20 trillion. you would think that somebody would be saying, nobody's held insurance plan whether it is paul ryan's or barack obama's w

david says the people who are against vaccination never lived through the polio epidemic, babies withckenpox, smallpox. their ignorance of the fact that vaccines have saved millions of lives. and gilbert writes, personal freedom is not absolute. there's a fine line that we walk. amen to that. we asked on gerriwillis.com. 86% said yes. 14% said no. that's interesting. log on gerriwillis.com for online question every weekday. finally tonight, bad ideas and poor decisions. the real risk for not getting your kids inoculated for major childhood diseases like the measles. kids get sick, and then they have investment ideas like borrowing against your house. nothing like doubling down on risks. we give many a hard time for giving us a hard time. i hope we can minimize those by sharing our experiences on the show. that's my "two cents more". a tip for "the willis report." thank you for joining us here in don't forget to tape the show if you can't catch a fly. we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ neil: welcome, i'm neil cavuto. i want to get something off my chest. this has been bugging me

. >> though vaccines like whooping cough and polio are required the state allows individuals to file a opt out. the east bay waldorf school l was brief liquors -- closed in 2008 due to an outbreak of whooping cough. it currently has the highest number of families opting out of immunization at 50%. >> it's a really tough complicated issue. >> reporter: and school administrator say they too have a delicate bans. respecting parents decisions but trying to do what they can to protect public health. they require nonimmunized kids to stay home during outbreaks. as for the new map tool, it's interesting. >> does it influence whether i come to the school or not? i probably won't look at it. >> reporter: they're hoping more people will use it. the vaccination for other coupties is available on the state website but in a different format. >>> ktvu.com web team has posted a link to that map. >>> and the sharks had game gets under away in about 15 minutes. visitors now have to go through metal detectors. as well as pat downs and bag searches. the national hockey league is requiring arenas to bee

polio. most of the time you're catching the children as they cross the border -- >> yes. >> reporter: -- and starting their vaccinations? >> yes. >> reporter: the urgent effort to vaccinate goes tent to tent. so this means children under 5? but everyone's vaccinated? >> yes. >> reporter: child to child. but today, new fears that the disease may have arrived here there's a suspected case of polio in the hospital. i'd like to show you what that looks like. mom's name is fatma. her husband and sons disappeared about a year ago in homs. she's been alone home with baby. and this little girl, nazine about ten days ago got a sore throat, stuffed up nose and lost her appetite. and she's very floppy on the right side of her body. this kind of floppiness is compatible with polio, but no one's calling it yet, until the tests are done. thank you, fatma. the world health organization and unicef have taken stool samples, spinal fluid, blood, urine, and they sent it all off to cairo. when those tests are back, we'll know for sure. it has been 24 hours now, and still no word on the results of her tests. and so the wait here continues.

california children have been found to have a virus similar but not identical to polio and in every case the children have been vaccinated. >> our suspicion is that this is a virus, we are not certain. there are other viruses that can do this, we know it's not the polio virus. california officials are trying hard to figure out what this could be causing this. >> there is little parents can do to protect their children. good for the most part they. >> for the most part they have been devastated and wanting answers. >> for sophia, she may never regain the use of her left arm. doctors feel the paralysis in other children will be permanent too. sophia is coping. >> sophia told me all we need is love. >> and that, she adds, is what matters most. >> centers for disease control is also searching so far for results. afp itself is not categorized as a disease, it is a symptom. it is hard to assess the symptoms or even if the cases are linked. doctors are hoping for more results in may where doctors will present their findings at a neurological conference. >>> the president who is moved by trayvon martin's death charged his staff

. >> reporter: vaccines for things like whooping cough, and polio are required, state law allows people file a personal belief exemption, and increasing numbers are. >> 98% needs to be immune. if 10% or more opt-out, these diseases will return. >> reporter: according to the map, it currently has the highest number of families opting out of immunization at 50%. >> it's a really tough, complicated issue. >> reporter: school administrators say they too have a delicate balance. respecting parents decision, but also trying to do what they can to protect public health. they require non-immunized kids to stay home. for the new map tool, she says it's interesting. >> does it influence whether i come to the school or not? i probably won't look at it. >> reporter: they hope to make the maps easily accessible, more people will use it. vancy nation information for other counties is available on a state website, but in a different format. >> at ktvu.com we posted a link to the new vaccination map. you can find it under web links. >>> a preview of a new ambitious project. it's a new fox tv show calle

. >> reporter: vaccines for things like whooping cough, and polio are required, state law allows peoplenal belief exemption, and increasing numbers are. >> 98% needs to be immune. if 10% or more opt-out, these diseases will return. >> reporter: according to the map, it currently has the highest number of families opting out of immunization at 50%. >> it's a really tough, complicated issue. >> reporter: school administrators say they too have a delicate balance. respecting parents decision, but also trying to do what they can to protect public health. they require non-immunized kids to stay home. for the new map tool, she says it's interesting. >> does it influence whether i come to the school or not? i probably won't look at it. >> reporter: they hope to make the maps easily accessible, more people will use it. vancy nation information for other counties is available on a state website, but in a different format. >> at ktvu.com we posted a link to the new vaccination map. you can find it under web links. >>> a preview of a new ambitious project. it's a new fox tv show called cosmos. a s

polio? >> there's very dire and 25 confirmed cases and up to 80,000 children affected. fortunately there ab ha move afoot, able to go door to door and provide the oral vaccinet children need. but to immunize a child against polio is not the one dosage, you need multiple dosages. so that is very difficult to accomplish in circumstances such as this. and i think we're already seeing reports of possible spread of polio outside of syria. i think i saw on your news a little while ago that there was a suspected case of polio in lebanon. it's children are very much in risk in syria. we need to see a much more organized immunization campaign, not only for polio but all of the other childhood illnesses that are appearing in the fighting zone. that also needs to be dealt with in the region as a whole. >> that is work that save the children is involved in. you can go to their website to get involved, thank you for everything that your group stands for and thank you for joining us today, michael. >> thank you, thanks for focusing on this important story. >> as a reminder our call to action is to fade out your avatar on facebook or twitter and go to the quts roen an far

polio or mealsles in our lifetime. >> i think that's absolutely true. for the diseases that are vaccinereventable, and more and more are, i had mealsles when i was a child and then in fact a vaccine was developed a few years later. it's possible to be immunized and not have to experience what so many of us went through earlier, but for the vaccine preventable diseases, very often it's just those people who are afraid to be immunized, afraid to have their children immunized for whatever reason, and depends on their neighbors to protect them. mealsles is extremely transmiscible, so you need a high level of immunization to protect people. so the complacency i think is the fact that we don't see the threat quite the way we did 50 years ago, or perhaps even 25ier. steven morse from columbia university, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> seem what infectious diseases are breaking out around the corner and around the world? versus newshour.pbs.world. >>> margaret warner will have the latest on the crisis in ukraine assist she continues her reporting. that's it for this edition. thanks for watch

polio. who would have thought that india could have make that vaccination leap? our ipad. it will explode. i will not let you read those. >> a bumpy day. >> thank you. >> get your baby shots for your kids! >> yes. >> and it's chuck.to chuck.todd@msnbc.com. >> a great cause for a great event focusing on improving medical practices and developing countries around the world. we will be talking to the ceo and founder of global health dr. vanessa carey next on "morning joe." ♪ running as fast as you can very crazy about a sharp dressed man ♪ salesperson #1: the real deal's the passat tdi clean diesel gets up to 795 highway miles per tank. salesperson #2: actually, we're throwing in a $1,000 fuel reward card. we've never done that. that's why there's never been a better time to buy a passat tdi clean diesel. husband: so it's like two deals in one? avo: during the salesperson #2: first ever exactly. volkswagen tdi clean diesel event, get a great deal on a passat tdi, that gets up to 795 highway miles per tank. and get a $1000 dollar fuel reward card. it's like two deals

polio. aggressive campaigning to ensure that every child is vaccinated has paid off. it's been fully years since the last case of polio was reported. making it polo free. >> the success is because of volunteers like this. they go door to door making sure no child is missed. the eradd cakes of the disease is a personal achievement. >> translation: i'm happy to here that polio is eradicated. we didn't get o play and run around. children now will not miss out on that chaps. >> this is not the first time they have been declared free of polo. cross-border transmission from india led to new cases. >> unfortunately nepal alone cannot achieve polio free. in the whole east-south asia we achieved polio free, except in pakistan and av. so long as we have live polio viruses in the two countries, we cannot be protected. >> india is polio free. with continued immunize agency campaigns, it is believed that polio would be a thing of the past. >> ex-parts say pol -- experts say polio is endemic because of violent conflict, weak health systems and pore sanitation. >> 2 million people th

polio pioneers. you're all going to get the shot, the vaccine, the rest is history.it was a collosal success, forget the human nature, human sprest and empathy and so on. according to one institute, the government did a study in 1950 said if we project future cost of polio to the year 2000, we're looking at $100 billion a year and wheelchairs, iron lungs and braces. and of course the answer is we're spending zero, at least in the united states. again, there is no way that this congressional budget office ever would have seen that coming. you can do similar analysises of the budget health care savings that come have saving money on aids, on heart disease and of course small pox which has been eradicated in the last few decades. so the point i'm making is not only is a c.b.o. a bystander to this process, but part of the protagonist of making the problem worst because it refuses to define all issues, including health care issues as finance issues. we spent the last quarter century wrangling around on health insurance, clinton care, obama care. you can say what you want

vaccinations triggered evan's autism. >> jenny mccarthy's well-known chants. the question, what do you look like in a mate? kids not getting poliosomeone who doesn't endanger public health by spreading dangerous pseudoscience. it's easy to pick out kevin trudeau or jenny mccarthy. this thinking spreads like a disease. a new study has pretty amazing numbers about people's belief systems. for example, 37% believe the fda is being pushed. 20% believe doctors in the government know vaccinations cause autism but want you to vaccinate your children regardless. joining me now, dr. gail saltz, associate professor of psychology at new york presbyterian hospital, school of medicine. journalist, rebecca traister. and seth mnookin, author of "the panic virus: true story behind the vaccine autism controversy." seth, i'll begin with you because you wrote a book about this. here's what i find fascinating about the vaccine trutherism. there's lots of theories people have. there's the fluoride conspiracy which has been around for decades. occasionally surfaces. doesn't get much traction. this one for some reason did guess traction and it's chang