This hearing will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The worlds population killing approximately 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio just started a third case worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Everyday vaccines are saving lives. There is no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. There is a wellfunded Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening the publichealth law. School vaccination requirements have been commonplace in the u. S. Generations and exemptions were granted for legitimate political reasons. However in my home state of texas, the number of unvaccinated children who spiked since 2003 when they expanded the exemptions to include non medical reasons. The 57,000 last year we are seeing this played out across the country and innocent
Committee hearing is about two and a half hours. This hearing will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The worlds population killing approximately 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio just started a third case worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Everyday vaccines are saving lives. There is no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. There is a wellfunded Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening the publichealth law. School vaccination requirements have been commonplace in the u. S. Generations and exemptions were granted for legitimate political reasons. However in my home state of texas, the number of unvaccinated children who spiked since 2003 when they expanded the exemptions to include non medical reasons. The 57,000 last year we are seein
Welcome back. At this time i would like to introduce our second panel of witnesses. The first witness on our second panel is dr. Sharon watkins. Dr. Watkins is the director for the bureau of epidemiology in the state epidemiologist for the Pennsylvania Department of health. Shes also the president of the council of state and territorial epidemiologists. Dr. Watkins is responsible foror management and oversight of the bureau of epidemiology which includes the division of infectious disease, Environmental Health and community health. Dr. Watkins has led disease prevailed at outbreak response efforts include those with zika, hepatitis a. Dr. Watkinss has over 40 peerreviewed publications and over 20 years of experience in applied Public Health and epidemiology. Thank you for being here, dr. Watkins. Our secondgy witness is dr. Robin robinson. Dr. Robinson is currently Vice President of Scientific Affairs for renovacare incorporated. Director of development for wound healing. Previously se
Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond one hundred days. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. This is the first day since 1980 that Robert Mugabe has not been fully in charge in zimbabwe hes under house arrest and the military says its temporarily ta ken control of the country. His fate is still uncertain and the army says this isnt a coup but today at least he clearly isnt running the country. The military says it wants to remove criminals around the 93 year old head of state. They may mean the president s wife, grace, whos been on a power grab of her own recently, apparently with the aim of assuming her husbands job when he eventually moves on. But mrs mugabe, whos now in namibia, was not a Freedom Fighter and she doesnt command the respect her husband earned through years of Armed Struggle against british colonisers. Heres the latest from our zimbabwe correspondent, shingai nyoka. This is what zimbabweans woke up to this morning, tan
In moscow when his organs started shutting down. He says he knew immediately what was happening because the same thing happened to him two years ago. Both times he claims he was the victim of deliberate poisoning. H5; vladimilfiaram the Vice Chairman of the Pro Democracy and he claims he was targeted because of his opposition to President Putin and the russian government. He is now recovering in washington but intends to go back to moscow. So does he still fear for his life . Vladimir kara murza, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, thank you for having me. Can you tell us when you first realised that something was wrong in this recent illness that you suffered . Well, i actually woke up at about 4. 30 in the morning because i felt my heart racing, and it was racing at an increasing speed. And then suddenly i began sweating profusely and feeling really, really weak. And i felt my Blood Pressure dropping suddenly and all of a sudden it became difficult to breathe. I was gasping for air. I was t