, 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, you can be selfish and self-centered about your life. when two people engage in

you need the whole herd vaccinated.those 222 cases, most of them were unvaccinated and europe there is a huge problem with people not getting the vaccine and guess what happens, you fly over there and pick up measles and bring it back, most of the 222 cases came from europe and you need to focus on the vaccination issue. i want people to know measles is more contagious than the flu we are talking about here and can really spread quickly. so we want to -- people to know and get the mmr vaccine. >> jamie: we will. >> eric: you know what hurts, the burning, stinging sensation in your eyes, remedies, that will bring much needed relief, around the country, the next topic when "sunday house call" comes back. [ male announcer ] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil no and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take a

autos having vaccines will prevent your children from getting potentially life-threatening infeks i feel strongly that all children should be vaccinated on schedule. >> opponents say it adds a requirement putting parents in a position of being bully bid doctors who they they know best. >> if it was easy to get a signature the reality is that we should not have to get permission to opt out of a medical procedure. >> doctors say the more that go unvaccinated the faster potentially deadly disease spreads through the population. >> there are parents entitled to their own decision fchl they feel they don't want to vaccinate, it's up to them. >> the office says the bill passed on a 48-26 vote moving on to senate likely to be heard by policy committees next month. >> thank you. >> thank you very much and just moments ago first drug to prevent hiv infection was given an okay for government approval. there is a board recommending proveal for the drug for people at high risk of contracting hiv. this includes gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couple was one hiv-positive partner. and it sel

i do know that i think children should be vaccinated.because that affects the health of all of the other children. >> right, you are an ambassador for u.n.'s foundation shot at life campaign. tell me about this. why are you so fixated on people getting vaccinations for their kids. >> well, the u.n. foundation came together with every child by 2 to start raising awareness and funds for vaccination campaigns and developing countries, which i do think is, you know, one of the great medical interventions of our time. and i, for one, want to be on the right side of history and we're so close to being able to eradicate some of these diseases, especially polio, the door is just this wide open, and i just want to be able to know that i helped try to shut it. >> i noticed that having had children both in britain and in america, there are many more vaccinations that you go through in this country, in a much shorter period of time. and i don't know enough about it really to say whether that is necessarily a better thing or a worse thing. but i'm ha

so, too, would this be the case for hiv therapeutic vaccines. impressive results have been emerging recently. one company has shown that therapeutic vaccine, when used in monkeys that were intentionally highly infected with the monkey version of hiv, was able to achieve a functional cure in some of the monkeys. at two years, no detectible viral load was recorded, even in the most hard to reach reservoirs of these animals. this represents significant progress. another company has shown that his therapeutic vaccine reduced the viral set or baseline in patients significantly better than a placebo. this could offer an insurance policy to all people living with hiv who either have no access, as you mentioned, can't afford the treatments, no longer respond to them or simply stopped taking them. you can't stop taking a vaccine. once it's in you, it's in you. i want to make two last points. both of these cures, these beginning new cures, may fail because these companies do not have the money to really produce them. they do not have the money to produce

the vaccinations of these young girls in texas. but that wasn't exactly the whole story. what happened after that was that on nbc in the morning, she said that someone had come up to her after the debate and told words, mental retardation. and so quickly we were able to move on that and took us about three to four hours to research and write this. and plugged into a format. that's what i'm going to show you here. >> michele bachmann's presidential campaign has gone viral. literally. bachmann is under fire for comments that some are calling reckless that the hpv vaccination may be dangerous. as pat kelsey reports, she's not backing down. here's reality check. >> health care professionals say her comments about hpv are not just untrue, they could do serious damage to efforts to immunize millions of preteen girls. >> i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, and told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. >> that is false. hpv is safe and almost 100% effective against cervical

about the recommendations of vaccinations. vaccinations for at the time -- tetanus, bacterial meningitis and hpv were only recently recommended for teenagers. >>> new strains of bacterial meningitis, a vaccine would help prevent 90% it have in the united states. >>> the capitals 2012 post season seems to have a similar story. lose game one, win game two, lose game three, win game four. if the caps stay true to form they'll win game five. tonight they will be at madison square garden in new york for game five against the rangers if this team has proven anything this post season, it is they can win on the road is that a three day rookie camp at redskins camp was all it took. robert griffin iii was named the starting quarterback. the heisman trophy winner will work with the starters later this month. >>> nearly 25 years after dying from an overdose. lien bias is inducted into the basketball hall of fame. he was one of the brightest stars at the university of maryland in the school's history. he led the school to a championship ov

the vaccine we see it now and what are you going to do now, we have this vaccine anybody it's been to be incredible and some as and make a lot of money on this. this wasn't unusual. this would be the mentality in the research culture, feeling that seeking profit from the patents wasn't a mobile search. it is interesting in that they're required a long arduous course of study and attracted people and was competitive and very difficult. these people were not motivated on money. there were motivated by fame mechem intellectual composition and wanted to be seen as benefactors important to them. they wanted to win prizes. these are the motivations that drove them and drove them very well under the modality that we actually took a lot during the medical crisis. of course the polio vaccine many researchers are not concerned about money they worked at the university and they themselves were different. universities and corporations couldn't have looked different. corporations have to maximize the profits. universities were actually centered of science in the public interest. the centers of res

for vaccinations. amanda, welcome. >> thank you so much. how are you? >> are you a mother or a smotherer? >> i hope i'm not a smotherer, but you'll have to ask my children in a few years, i guess. >> so, look, what do you think of this? it is a very provocative cover. my wife gave birth to a little girl six months ago, her first baby. >> great. >> yeah, but she's just started weaning off the breast-feeding and she finds it very difficult. so i can understand that lots of women develop these amazingly emotional bonds with their young babies. and it is hard to stop. but you do have to stop at some stage. a 3-year-old boy suckling on his mother's breast is ridiculous, isn't it? >> you know, i think it is best to leave these decisions up to the individual mom, and it would be good if we didn't get overly zealous about these things, i think. parenting techniques and what have you. >> i know, but, look, sometimes you have to step in. i mean, this kid -- what's he going to be like in school, the poor lyle mite? >> if it were this easy to keep our children from

it is thought conflict and a lack of trust in vaccinations are leading to fewer children being vaccinated. many countries may not be prepared for a return of polio should the disease spread. that is why the world health organization says polio is that a tipping point between success and failure. >> of the scourges of polio reemerging. the u.s. senate committee slashed millions of dollars in aid to pakistan in retaliation for yesterday's conviction of the pakistani doctor who helped to catch osama bin laden. he is sentenced for height she reasoned. hillary clinton says his jailing was unjust and unwarranted. to europe now, where political leaders are failing to make decisions and business leaders are failing to make money. a survey today shows european business activity down to a three-year low in may. unfortunately, that was not enough to persuade leaders in brussels to agree on the best way to tackle the crisis. to discuss the ongoing problems, i spoke with the director of the europe program at the center for strategic international studies. >> everyone is looking for answers and the ans

i strongly recommend the annual rabies vaccine. call your veterinarian and set up the appointment. >> how do they contract it? >> they can get it from bats, raccons, foxes. the same way dogs do. >> if they are out in the pasteur. >> yes. they are at a higher risk than are companion mast animals because they are outside all the tim. >> this rider is confused about which vaccines her horse actually needs in the spring, and does every horse need the same vaccines, and then the timing. >> in my opinion, every horse needs three core vaccines -- the east and western encepholitis, and of course, the rabies. i recommend calling your veterinarian, discussing what your horse does, where your horse lives, and they will design a program that's appropriate for you and your horse. >> is spring time the prime time to do this? >> yeah, their annual vaccines are usually given in the spring. >> thank you for joining us this morning. we'll be paying a of attention to horses over the next few weeks. more is coming up. stick around. we'll be right back

for example, vaccines in the developing world. vaccines are very easy and cheap because you don't have to make a diagnosis, you don't have to, um, provide a lot of time or monitoring. a one-shot deal. everybody, every child, um, gets a vaccine, it's very easy to administer, and it's not very expense bive -- expensive, um, necessarily because, um, bill gates' foundation has partnered with a drug company among others to provide very cheap vaccines in the developing world. you have to keep in mind it's not a matter of just importing western vaccines and medications. the special challenges in the developing world include the fact that health practitioners are scarce. you don't want it to be injectable, something everyone can take. refrigeration is not always an option, so these things have to be kept in mind, and even so they were able to take a $70 vaccine and distribute it for 50 cents in alaska rah and the developing world. and it's really important to me that pharmaceutical companies were part of that partnership. in my opinion, t

get those first vaccinations. but immunity wears off over time. the c.d.c. says adults need one booster shot after the age of 18. but today only 8% of adults get a recommended booster. washington secretary of health mary salecki is urging people to get immunized. >> this is about taking care of yourself, your family but also your community. >> as a parent you don't want to go through this and having this booster shot available to us, it just seems like a no-brainer to me. just go and get it. >> reporter: last year, the c.d.c. began recommending pregnant women be vaccinating against whooping cough for two reasons: to protect mothers like heidi brook and because protective antibodies pass from mother to child before birth and can help shield newborns before they're hold enough to be vaccinated themselves. >> pelley: thank you, doctor. heart problems may have caused the death today of mexican writer carlos fuentes, he was 83 years old. a giant of latin american literature, fuentes wrote more than 20 novels and he just started a new book last month. after you sw

there are two vaccines. the first was developed in the mid-1950's. the second oral vaccine was created in 1961, using a weakened strain of the virus. for decades the world has been working toward polio eradication. the goal is in sight but it's still a dangerous time. >> right now, unless we can close the financing gap, we are going to fail. we've got the president of nigeria, the president of afghanistan, the prime minister and president of pakistan leading the charge, holding their leader championship -- leadership, political leadership accountable to get the kids vack synated but right now we're not sure we've got the resources with buy the vaccines and get it out to children in some of the most difficult and challenging parts of the world. >> earlier this year india was declared free of the disease. mass immunization campaigns have led to a dramatic drop in polio cases. india used to be the epicenter of polio but the last case was january 2011. the progress made in india has been a remarkable achievement. only 55 polio cases have been reported in

. >>> still to come, could an experimental vaccine save the lives of cancer patients. >> here are the top stories on wjz.com at this hour. for instant updates and the weather forecast, log onto wjz.com. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> in today's health watch a, an experimental vaccine is helping patients with pancreas live longer. they gave the vaccine to 70 patients and most were disease free after one year. 95% of patients don't survive. >>> mothers who put on excess weight before and during pregnancy are more likely to have bigger babies. larger babies increased as more weight was gained. it can increase chances the mother will need a c-section. >>> check back in with wjz's eyewitness news today at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. we will have more on the secret service prostitution scandal. it's a precedent setting lawsuit. victims in a crash where a driver was texting is suing. join us for these stories at i'm thinking of asking carlina to have dinner at my place. she's italian... and you can't cook. sure. no problem.ere? ♪ >>> welcome back. i want to take another look at radar, because it's gotten a

so too would this be the case for hiv therapeutic vaccines. impressive results have been emerging recently. one company based in gaithersburg has shown that therapeutic vaccine when used in monkeys that were intentionally highly infected with the monkey version of hiv was able to achieve a functional cure in some of the monkeys. at two years no detectable -- again no detectable viral load was recorded even in the hard to reach reservoirs of these ani l animals. another company base

the vaccinations were only recently recommended for teens. >>> scientists working on a vaccine to protectgainst new strands of meningitis say they're one step closer to success. it would protect about 90% of the streams that cause meningitis in the u.s. researchers tested its safety and effectivity. >>> breast cancer could be more deadly for men than women. that's according to new research by a san francisco breast surgeon. a woman's over night five year survival rate was 83% but a man's was only 74%. medical practices may be to blame. women are more likely to have their cancer caught early. >> check back in with wjz eyewitness news at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. back on the stand, what a former political consultant, julius henson is saying toed in his own defense -- saying today in his own defense. join us today at 4:00 after dr. phil. >> please stay with us, your >> please stay with us, your [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplemen

this research finding is the closest we have to an hiv vaccine but we are far from a vaccine as my colleagues have pointed out but this is an amazing finding and it could potentially bring benefit to millions more people and potentially help the epidemic. ironically, a painful irony, just as the science shows we need to find ways to reach more people domestically as well as internationally international funding for hiv is in a crisis in the u.s. putting the drugs out of reach. too many americans living with hiv are unable to access treatment. the same drugs cause $220 overseas cost $25,000 here. the question is what explains this difference? in my view the availability of low-cost generic drugs in low-cost countries is part of men and within global political bargain. people living in the u.s. continue to pay higher price for medicine in order to reward companies for their investments in r&d and people in the poorest countries of the donors who support them will essentially pay for generic drugs near the cost of production. that bargain is based on an assumption which is that people living in

she says getting the vaccine is the best way to protect you and your family. teresa garcia, wjz eyewitness news. >> the cdc also recommends expecting moms to get a booster to protect newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. >>> a firefighter falls through a roof, while battling a fire in portland and survives. look closely. you'll see him fall. there he is in the circle. he goes right through. the captain says he was up there trying to find hot spots on the roof when he fell about 3 or 4 feet. luckily, he landed on the rafters and was able to crawl out without injury. in the end, six condos were torched. eight people left homeless. >>> twitter is stepping up of thes to guard your privacy. the social media giant is adopting the do-not-track feature of mozilla's firefox browser. the feature prevents websites from using cookies to track your personal information and online movements. to opt into the service on twitter, you must select the do not track feature within the firefox browser. >>> coming up at 4:00, street magic robbers. where police are looking for

you can't stop taking a vaccine once it's in you, it's in you. i want to make two other last points. both of these cures, these beginning to new cures may fail because these companies do not have the money to really produce them. they do not have the money to produce them. the one in norway is actually working in human beings, but they do not have the money to produce them. we need to rethink, as you said, as this bill says, how we actually get pharmaceutical companies to invest and incentivize companies to find new treatments. the national association of people with aids will be here as long as there are people living with hiv/aids. we want to be partners with senators, member ps of congress and industry representatives who are prepared to roll up our sleeves and make an honest assessment of what does and what does not work when it comes to incentivizing drug development in av. we applaud you, senator sanders, for thinking of results, we do not want to come back here 30 years from now without a cure. all options should be put on the table for di

seniors who need flu vaccines and other at-risk populations who need immunization efforts. according to the cdc, every dollar decrease -- every million-dollar decrease in this funding would lead to state and local entities having 30,000 fewer doses of life-saving vaccines. again, the repealing this fund, the republicans jeopardize the funding for 12 states conducting autism surveillance. we know the statistics on autism are justin incredible. early diagnosis and intervention makes a world of difference in the success of children with autism. the republican language would have 52 states in territorielial departments now conducting hearing loss screening for infants would lose their funding. eliminating access to basic prevention services now virtually ensures we'll be paying more for costly treatments down the road. we should be testing best practices, and we should share what works. and we should be doing this on the local and state level. we just heard that from the other side of the aisle. that's the only way they would consider these efforts. that's exactly what this fun

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also, we're pushing for pregnant women to get vaccinated and boosted.t is really a high risk disease and risk for death. >> reporter: this mom caught whooping cough and gave it to her 2-week old daughter caroline. >> i said, oh, my gosh, it was me. and i had inadvertently given my newborn a potentially fatal disease. >> reporter: they both recovered. for heidi, she said it is now a no-brainer. she said getting a vaccine is the best way to protect you and your family. teresa garcia, wjz eyewitness news. >> the centers for disease control says the vaccine for whooping cough is effective, though not necessarily 100% effective. >>> a respected member of baltimore's african american clergy is being remembered tonight. reverend marian baskum has passed away. he was a civil rights pioneer and pastor emeritus are if more than 40 years. he was also the first black fire commissioner of baltimore. he was 87 years old. >>> it's always nice to get a compliment or be recognized. and now, mike schuh reports, that is exactly what happens on a national level to a small

apparently some people are saying that actually they did vaccinate a number of people but then never came back for the second round. >> warner: what he was trying to get was d.n.a. samples from the compound. >> that's correct. and we don't really know... it seems like he didn't so that leaves open the question what did he do for this operation? >> warner: right because we have hillary clinton and secretary panetta saying he helped. >> yes. >> warner: how did his name and whole scenario leak out? >> i don't believe how it leaked out but he was picked up very soon after the raid, within two weeks of the raid he was picked up by the intelligence agencies and they have many, many what i should say good contacts with the pakistani nationalist press and i'm sure that's how it got out. >> warner: i mean in terms of how pakistanis knew how to pick him up? >> i don't know the answer to that but, again, we're talking about an area that's... everybody knows each other. it's a tribal region of the country and he was probably one of the most prominent people there. he was, after all, a surgeon fr

he was working on finding a vaccine on clement street and he became infected. that will be will be closed while v.a.and cal osha investigate. >> local and state officials celebrating the successful demolition of doyle drive last week. there is a league of 300 workers and 40 excavateors demolished bridge spans. and today the mayor said he's excited about the project. >> this feels exactly like i felt when the embarcadero went down when the ramps went down. the community opened up and we knew we're doing the right thing. >> cleaning up the debris is expected to take two months. the next major step will be in the fall. the roadway is expected to be complete in 2015. >> and it's exciting. >> well, still ahead there is a whale of a tale coming up. a role a local fishing boat came to free june, the gray whale spotted entangled in southern california. >> temperatures higher this weekend. how warm coming up. >> and the inspiring bay area gathering of athletes were going the distance despite being amputees. stay with us. the news at 5:00 resume heerz in just one minute.

. >> first up, a vaccine may one day help people with pancreatic cancer, hopefully live longer.octors at a conference today in san diego presented their findings at the study of a vaccine involving 70 patients and they say the vaccine is designed to trigger the patients' own immune system to kill those cancer cells. still very early in the testing process, but doctors believe the vaccine improves the cancer survival rate when used with regular treatment. >> we are the people! the mighty, mighty people! fighting for children! >>> hundreds of moms and their strollers along with nurses and cancer survivors are demonstrating in washington. they say that toxic chemicals are found in items they use every day. bedding, pajamas, furniture. they are supporting the safe chemicals' act which would update laws governing the use of toxic chemicals in products. >>> this video here is just frightening, let's pull this up full and you can see this little child on this little motor bike zigzagging around buses and cars and busy, busy city. folks, this is china. this is yesterday and i'm watching

. >>> doctors in houston are giving the vaccine to women in remission from cancer. doctors say if it works it could lead to a vaccine to prevent breast cancer. >>> contact sports might increase the chance of reduced learning ability, that is the suggestion of a study. researchers tested the learning ability of college athletes in contact and non-contact sports and found no difference before the season. afterwards the athletes in contact sports were more likely to have reduced learning ability. they say blows to the head might be the cause. >> a simple postural test that could determine whether a child is at risk for autism. >> back here in 10 minutes, friday is upon us, i have the forecast into the weekend. >>> parents might be more likely to be happy than people without children. that is the finding at stanford university, uc riverside. they found parents were happier during the day when caring for their children. older married parents are the happiest of all. >>> today autism researchers reported a test that could help identify autistic children. ktvu's john fowle