Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Pro-Vaccination Letter (From 1988)

Roald Dahl - author of such books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda - lost his eldest daughter, Olivia, to measles in 1962. Twenty-six years later, he penned a cogent and gut-wrenching plea to parents, urging them have their children vaccinated against the disease.