WHEREAS, Alpha–1-Antitrypsin Deficiency is a serious genetic disorder associated with liver disease in infants, children and adults, and lung disease in young adults; and

        WHEREAS, Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency is the most common genetic disease for which liver transplants are performed in newborns; and

        WHEREAS, one in 37 people carry the gene for Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency; and

        WHEREAS, 80,000 to 100,000 U.S. citizens are estimated to have severe Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency, and 20 million more are thought to be affected with a milder deficiency; and

        WHEREAS, Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency was only identified in 1963 and is misdiagnosed and under diagnosed; and

        WHEREAS, a need has been identified to increase awareness and detection of this misdiagnosed and under diagnosed disorder;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim May 2007, to be

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in Idaho, and to continue and expand education and promote access to quality care and services for all people affected by Alpha-1.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at Boise, Idaho, on this 17^th day of May in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE