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...Current co-chairs Marco Chan ’11 and Rogelio J. Mercado, Jr. ’10 say the name change was intended to make the organization more inclusive...
...think they’re conflating their political objective with the opinion of the student body,” said Queer Students and Allies Co-Chair Marco Chan ’11, who nonetheless praised the actual exercise of the poll as a valuable means of promoting discussion...
Still, the WHO has urged all governments to prepare for an imminent pandemic. "The biggest question is, 'How severe will a pandemic be?'" Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, said in Switzerland. So politicians have to make like they're doing something. Gabon and Ghana have banned the import of pork, even though the flu virus cannot be contracted through eating dead pig. Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe say they are checking arriving passengers at borders and airports and have response plans of varying sophistication should an outbreak occur. In some places, they've gone much further: Authorities...
...pandemic threat goes well beyond one or two countries. "An influenza pandemic should be taken seriously because of its capacity to spread rapidly," said WHO director-general Margaret Chan. "We do not have all the answers now. But we will get them...
...more cloister a single country than we could cut off a limb. The world has become increasingly one - as the rapid spread of the swine flu virus from country to country shows. "It is really all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," says the WHO's Chan. Whatever happens next with the swine flu - whether it burns out or sharpens - we're in this together...