Guest column: Louisiana's leaders should champion vaccines and children's health

It’s been more than 60 years since The Advocate (then called The Morning Advocate) published a story about the Boy Scouts volunteering their time to help get kids vaccinated against the polio virus. It’s hard to imagine the devastating impact of that terrible disease, which often left young children unable to walk, because Americans rallied to the cause and got vaccinations that virtually eradicated it.

Many diseases like polio once plagued society. But due to the revolutionary implementation of vaccines, we have become desensitized to the dangers of these illnesses.