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Email to a FriendHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement marking August as National Immunization Awareness Month:
“National Immunization Awareness Month is an opportunity to highlight the importance of vaccines as a safe and effective way to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities from preventable health threats. Since the advent of vaccines, we have seen remarkable reductions in diseases that had previously been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States, such as polio and diphtheria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other components of HHS work all throughout the year, across the United States and around the world, to promote awareness of immunizations. Earlier this year, HHS leaders undertook a significant push to educate the public about the dangers of vaccine-preventable diseases during National Infant Immunization Week, and that work will continue.