If parents don't vaccinate their child, then you have 3 per thousand risk of death if they get measles. But they may not get measles if everyone around them is vaccinated because the virus is not going to be around them.

You have to look at a question of risk evaluation. The risk of taking vaccination is extremely small. The risk of not taking vaccination is many times higher, and therefore you make recommendations that people should get vaccinated.

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years. Stress and lack of social support may also adversely affect immunologic measures, so spousal hospitalization may have physiological effects on partners.

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years.

I feel guilty ... because I took chances ... and put my parents at risk.

We also take individual requests for children who are at risk or who have sick parents or are sick themselves. Several of our ladies work for social-service agencies so we find out some names through them.