Lois Capps Quotes
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
United States. Congress. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 26 June 2009, p. H7498.
Sachs was commenting on the tendency of some to blame all the problems of Africa on corruption and bad governance.
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.
The CDC scientists track communicable diseases and are responsible for creating vaccines each year in time to limit the “flu season’ and other disease mortality and morbidity. In the government shutdown, they could not even volunteer to work in their own laboratories.
He is in charge of collecting and deploying the funds donated for infectious diseases from countries throughout the world. Each nation has its own budget cycle and the public health officials have to plan and act as soon as they learn that an epidemic is breaking out. The viruses and bacteria grow when they grow, not when budgets have planned for them.
This was the first cigarette company that admitted what by then had been known by the cigarette companies for almost 50 years during which they continued to knowingly kill people and deny that there was any harm that could come from smoking.
In addition to the respiratory disease, coal ash produced by coal-fired power plants dumped at sites across 21 U.S. states has contaminated ground water with toxic elements. The contaminants including the poisons arsenic and lead. Arsenic has been shown to cause skin cancer, bladder cancer and lung cancer, and lead damages the nervous system.
Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for California's 24th congressional district from 1998 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 22nd District from 1998 to 2003 and the 23rd from 2003 to 2013, includes all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and a portion of Ventura County.
