Childhood vaccines are important because they protect not only your child, but the children around him or her as well. In the past, they’ve helped eliminate diseases such as measles, but as fewer children become immunized, diseases that once were eradicated are starting to resurface. In the podcast, John Lantos, MD, Director of the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center, is joined by Mary Anne Jackson, MD, Chief of Infectious Disease at Children’s Mercy, a nationally recognized expert on the issue.