Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit
Dr. Charles J. Arntzen of Texas A & M University worries about children and the diseases they catch -- especially, the children of the Third World.
Vaccines have been fabulously successful in saving the lives of millions of children over the past three decades from the effects of six major killers: diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, measles, tetanus, and tuberculosis. By the late '90s, almost eighty percent of the world's children were being immunized against these diseases, up from a paltry five percent in the mid-'70s.
