Healthy Reminders for Warmer Weather

Skin Cancer Prevention:  Did you know the chances for getting skin cancer increases as we get older? Are we doing all we can to promote CHILDREN’S sun-safety awareness?

• Click here for a helpful flyer about teaching and protecting children from Skin Cancer.
  
  
• Click here for FAQs about Sun Safety
  
  
• Click here for Sun Safety Tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tick-Borne Illness Prevention:

• Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991.
  
  
• Click here for a kid-directed handout about Lyme Disease from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
  
• Additional information about ticks and Lyme Disease prevention are made available on the CDC’s website:  https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/index.html