Proclamation 5733 --
National Adult Immunization Awareness Week, 1987
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
We
have good reason to set aside a week to remind ourselves of the benefits of
adult immunization: The lives of many adults could be saved each year by
inoculation with vaccines readily available and approved by the United States
Food and Drug Administration. Vaccination against infectious diseases saves
lives and lowers health care costs as well, as the Surgeon General has
repeatedly reminded our Nation.
Many
adults needlessly become victims of diseases that vaccination prevents.
Influenza and pneumonia kill more than 70,000 adult Americans each year, in
part because approximately 80 percent of people at high risk for
influenza-related complications have not been vaccinated. Estimates are that
more than 200,000 cases of hepatitis B occur in the
In
recognition of the importance of adult immunization and the benefits of public
awareness, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 168, has designated the
week beginning October 25, 1987, 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
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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