Uganda, however, happens to be a can-do kind of place when it comes to public health disasters.

We cannot assume it will avoid environmental and public health disasters.

"Otherwise we would have had a public health disaster on our hands."

Referring to yesterday's ruling, she said: "This is a public health disaster.

I never dreamed that my discovery four decades ago would lead to such a profit-driven public health disaster.

They didn't even think about the implications for the poorest countries, and then they ran into this growing health disaster.

In some cases, a lack of diagnosis can lead to health disasters and death.

This is a matter of urgency, if we do not want to be responsible for a health disaster attributable to chemicals.

"You have the ingredients in Asia right now for a public health disaster," he says.

Ken Kyle, the society's director of public issues, called today's action "a public health disaster."