Festus Mogae Quotes
AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.
Botswana is one of the few African national successes at that time. It is the world’s largest diamond exporter and unlike many other nations, wealthy in natural resources like Saudi Arabia or Iran, Botswana became a multi-party democracy upon independence and has remained that ever since.
Festus Mogae, President of Botswana, Interview, Charlie Rose Show, December 6, 2006
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Influenza, commonly referred to as the “flu”, is a deadly killer. Annual vaccinations are required to prevent getting the Flu, but even today, many people, even in America, do not get their annual vaccine. Each year, 40 Thousand American die of the Flu, even into the 21st century.
This is a very interesting historical quotation. The House and the Senate closed the galleries because America was in the midst of the most fatal outbreak of disease in its history. It was the Flu, but that year it was a particularly virulent strain—the first time the world had seen the H1N1 strain. There was no vaccine then and about 100 million people died worldwide. In America more than ½ million people died. It was the worst Pandemic in history—it killed more people than the Black Plague even. The medical authorities did realize that the flu was spread from person to person but other than keep people from congregating in groups as in the Congressional galleries, there was little they knew about what to do.
Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama.
