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Is that what it's about for you? >> yeah, i'm -- you have to play into what your personality profile is. i like to be able to have things that are really important and have impact when you look at the great plagues and the epidemics of measles and polio and sma smallpox. there is something very exciting about that because the implications of it are rather profound and if you as a physician and a scientist can do something about it, there is a great deal of excitement and gra gratification and challenge. if you go to the early years of hiv, those were very dark years. >> they were. >> i was tak...

And when their age came up, i had them all vaccinated after doing a lot of homework. it comes down to risk/reward. no question the risk to young people is lower than with adults. but it's by no means zero. people still get very sick. they can develop long hauling symptoms and in rare cases they can die. overall, i can show you just the impact of vaccines overall when we sometimes become the victims of our own success. but we know that for many childhood vaccines, for example, vaccines they already receive, the vaccines have made it a significant difference overall in terms of these cases. prev...

So again, as he'll return here on sunday. that's august 1st. a dramatically different place than they hoped they would be heading into the closing weeks of the summer. >> very much so. thank you very much, jeff. i want to go "outfront" to dr. larry brilliant that helped eradicate smallpox. dr. brilliant, you know, you ahead of all of these new revelations about how infectious this is and contagious this is said that you anticipated it would be more infectious than sma smallpox, one of the most infectious diseases known to man kind. how do you see this mayiplaying, doctor? >> thank you for ha...