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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: National Adult Immunization Awareness
Week
Box: Box 84 (1988)
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yo THE UNITED
THE
8
SEAL
CSEATS
National Adult Immunization Awareness
Week, 1988
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
America does well to hold a national week of observance to remind citizens
that the need for immunization does not stop with childhood. Vaccine-
preventable diseases continue to kill grown-ups in our Nation; as many as
70,000 adults die each year because they do not take advantage of vaccines for
influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis B, tetanus, and other prevent-
able infectious diseases. Even among people at greatest risk for complica-
tions-the elderly and the chronically ill-fewer than one in five routinely
receive annual influenza vaccination and fewer than one in 10 have been
vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia.
Immunization with safe and effective vaccines can greatly reduce the tragic
loss of life and reduce the massive costs associated with health care. The
Surgeon General of the United States has repeatedly urged adults to use
appropriate preventive health-care practices, including vaccination for dis-
eases preventable through immunization. We can all do our share in making
sure we ourselves and members of our families know about and receive
immunization, and that our neighbors and communities have the same oppor-
tunity.
In recognition of the importance of adult immunization and of the benefits of
public awareness, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 335, has designat-
ed the week beginning October 23, 1988, as "National Adult Immunization
Awareness Week" and authorized and requested the President to issue a
proclamation in observance of this occasion.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 23, 1988, as Nation-
al Adult Immunization Awareness Week. I call upon all government agencies
and the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate
activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh
day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
thirteenth.
Ronald Reagan