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LUPUS"
Foundation of America
Kansas Chapter. Inc
LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH PROCLAMATION
Whereas, each year, the Lupus Foundation of America designates Mayas National Lupus
Awareness Month, to show support for the estimated 1.5 million Americans who have lupus.
Whereas, lupus is an acute and chronic (lifelong) autoimmune disease in which the immune
system is unbalanced, causing inflammation and tissue damage to virtually every organ system in
the body.
Whereas, lupus can affect any part of the body, including the skin, lungs, heart, kidneys, and
brain. No organ is spared. The disease can cause seizures, strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages,
and organ failure.
Whereas, while lupus strikes mostly women of childbearing age, no one is safe from lupus.
African Americans, HispanicslLatinos, Asians and Native Americans are two (2) to three (3)
times more likely to develop lupus - a disparity that remains unexplained.
Whereas, lupus can be particularly difficult to diagnose because its symptoms are similar to
those of many other illnesses, and major gaps exist in understanding the causes and consequences
of lupus. More than half of all people with lupus take four (4) or more years and visit three (3) or
more doctors before obtaining a correct diagnosis.
Whereas, there have been no new drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
specifically for lupus in 52 years; current treatments for the disease can have damaging side
effects. However, in February the F.D.A. did finally approve a drug designed for lupus.
Whereas, 14,000 Kansans are affected by lupus.
N6W, therefore, I Samantha Angell, Mayor of the City of Salina, Kansas, do hereby proclaim the
month of Mayas Lupus Awareness Month in Salina, Kansas.
I urge each of our citizens to observe this month by educating themselves on the symptoms and
impact oflupus, and to join with the Kansas Chapter ofthe Lupus Foundation of America in
supporting programs of research, education, and community service.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the City
of Salina, Kansas to be affixed this
month of May in the year 2011.