Mounting threats after Katrina

BoingBoing quotes a very in-depth analysis of the various disease, mental health and political crises afoot. The scope of what we'll have to deal with in the Mississippi Delta area is immense. One bit to keep in mind:

In every disaster we have been engaged in we have witnessed a similar sense by the victims of disasters that they were being singled out, and ignored by their government, because of their ethnicity, religion or race. The onus is on government to prove them wrong.