Dawn Crawford, CCIC Communications Director - Broomfield, CO
What I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving is healthy children. When a child is healthy they get to play, learn and, simply, just be a kid. Healthy kids means more smiling faces, more infectious giggles, and a better future for us all.
One thing that greatly contributes to children's health is the amazing advances in vaccinations. With vaccines we are protecting today's children and future generations from the devastation of polio, mumps, measles, rubella, chickenpox, HPV, meningitis, whooping cough, diphtheria, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Hib, rotovirus, tetanus and influenza.
When a child is protected from disease with vaccinations they get to avoid missing school due to the flu. They get to stay out of the hospital when they are dangerously dehydration from rotovirus. They get to play with children with cancer because they can't spread disease to these vulnerable kids.
