Light-weight, foot-powered scooters are hugely popular with the elementary and middle-school crowd, but if there's one waiting for your child under the Christmas tree, take note: in the first 10 months of 2000 alone, they were associated with 27,600 visits to emergency departments, including two deaths. According to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 85% of the injuries were in children younger than 15. Bone fractures or dislocations, lacerations, contusions, and sprains or strains accounted for the lion's share of the injuries. The arm or hand were most commonly injured, followed by the head or face, and leg or foot. CDC experts recommend that scooter riders wear helmets and elbow and knee pads; ride on smooth, paved surfaces where there is no traffic, avoiding any surface with water, sand, gravel, or dirt; ride only in daylight; and, if they are young children, that they be supervised at all times by adults.

Source: United Press International

The CDC? Center for Disease Control?
Hmmmm... what are they doing with their fingers in the 'scooter' pie?
Can you get sick from riding one of those things?

Val, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) provides official guidelines and recommendations for the prevention of diseases, injuries, and disabilities.

hehe... I know... I know... I was just being a smartiepants.
I've always found it funny that the CDC covers all that stuff and won't change their name...
I'm weird. Sorry dear... just one of those strange moods I get in around this time of year.