attrition but above all a lack of sunlight and the resulting shortage of vitamin d. could cause rickets from then on this childhood disease was treated in part using ultraviolet lamps. u.v.b. rays in sunlight are critical for the production of it and indeed they account for 80 to 90 percent of our victim in the meads. if you spend 15 minutes a day out in the sun that s enough and if you also eat fatty fish mushrooms and dairy products in moderation that provides you with sufficient vitamin d. . that. most people don t need to take vitamin d. supplements despite what the drug industry says there s no sign of a hype surrounding vitamin d. going away with more and more different products on the market.
washington, as well as in oregon. shine tweeting in part, the entire baby boom population alive today had the measles as kids. bring back our childhood disease, they keep you healthy and fight cancer. cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is joining us now. sanjay, let s to talk about, but let s just start with the facts on measles and makes sure everybody out there watching knows what s most important here. this is a serious disease, it can lead to encephalitis and even death. yeah, look, ana, it s a serious disease, a highly contagious disease, perhaps one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. and there is a vaccine that s been around since 1963. it was around when darla shine was a kid, as well. let me just give you a sense of what life was like in the united states before the vaccine and after the vaccine. you can take a look at the numbers. 3 to 4 million people infected every year, 48,000 hospitalized, as you mentioned, encephalitis, 4,000 people would h
the cdc now says that 62 cases of the disease known as acute flaccid myelitis now confirmed in 22 states. this is why it is so concerning. this is a disease that attacks the child s body s nervous system weakening or paralyzing limbs. almost all of the cases have been found among young children. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is here with us for more. because of vaccines we haven t seen a case of polio in this country in four decades. this seems so similar to polio. no question. what we are looking at is a relatively new childhood disease. it s been around for a while. it was back in 2014 that we saw this spike of cases. everyone really started paying attention to it. i think we have a chart showing what has happened. in 14 it went up significantly. not that many cases in 15.
what we are witnessing is the start of a new childhood disease. we don t know where it goes from here. maybe it peters out. they are waiting and watching on that. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you for bringing that. i had no idea about it until this morning. we will all be watching for that despite how rare it is. chief justice john roberts says there is no place for politics in the courts. tell that to mitch mcconnell who had a very different message. y. and we ve got all the top brands of tires. king: yes indeed. take these michelin tires, for example. king: or these goodyear tires over here. i like this guy. always a touch better means great brands at great prices. now get up to $200 off select goodyear and cooper tires with the midas credit card. request your appointment today.
any plan is going to have to provide coverage with pre-existing conditions. a childhood disease or whether it s cancer or something like that. what insurance is supposed to babbi about, when you re insuring for some unforeseen event. if your house is on fire, you can call up the insurance company and say i want fire insurance. that s not what insurance is about. how can you foresee that your child is going to have heart disease? say that again. how can you foresee that your child is going to have heart disease? that s not a pre-existing condition. once someone has that condition, then you have to put those groups of people in a public subsidy program where they re providing coverage. you want a functioning insurance market for everyone else. do they remain do they remain in that pool their entire lives? for their lives.