Asthma Attack

The American Lung Association®, can give you close to 20 million reasons why we need to "Blow the Whistle on Asthma" and how you can help fight the asthma epidemic. Close to 20 million Americans currently have asthma. You probably know someone who suffers from this chronic disease. It could be a family member, a young child, a co-worker, a neighbor or maybe even you. Asthma isn't always obvious; you can't always tell an Asthma sufferer from looking at them. Though you cannot always see asthma, you can see and count its devastating effects. Asthma is responsible for over 14 million lost school days in children. Even more frightening is the fact that asthma can be fatal; over 4,000 deaths are attributed to asthma annually. The economic cost of asthma is unbelievable - over $16.1 billion dollars is spent annually.

Asthma Walk is a nation wide effort to bring attention to this devastating chronic illness. We know a lot about asthma, but there is so much we don't know. Your participation will raise the funds necessary to provide education and research so we can better control asthma and soon find a cure.