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...World Health Organization's Hanoi representative, Hans Troedsson. "It affects international public health and lack of information could have severe implications." Nor is the problem confined to Vietnam: many of Asia's governments appear slow to apply fully the lessons of openness and cooperation from last winter's major outbreak. "There are problems with transparency, difficulties sharing scientific information," says Dr. Yi Guan, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong. "We can't stop the virus without regional cooperation...
...World Health Organization warned of the threat of a polio epidemic as the virus returned to two countries where it had previously been eradicated. Guinea and Mali brought to 12 the total of formerly polio-free nations that have seen new cases of the disease since January 2003. The outbreak dealt a blow to the WHO's goal of eradicating polio worldwide by the end of 2004. Stormy Season TAIWAN Rescuers searched for survivors and evacuated residents threatened by mudslides in the wake of Typhoon Aere, which reportedly killed 30 people as it swept across the island. The storm...
Even populations inside wildlife sanctuaries are not necessarily secure. In 1994 one-third of the lions in the Serengeti died from an outbreak of canine distemper, a viral infection transmitted by feral dogs. Inbreeding, a problem on small, isolated reserves, makes big cats more vulnerable to disease. African lions, says Frank, who is also funded by WCS, "are heading toward the tiger situation in Asia--small populations in widely separated national parks. Inbreeding, disease and political instability [which has sometimes disrupted management of parks] will soon destroy those populations...
...What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided to put more journalists onto the possible outbreak of citrus disease in Queensland. "Could be the biggest disaster in Australian rural history," says Mitchell. But the best contender for the splash is shaping up as a story on Australia's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., championed by the paper and about to face the U.S. Senate. The Canberra...
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have suffered the brunt of this renewed assault, but nations in temperate zones, including the U.S., are not immune. A malaria outbreak in Florida last summer that hospitalized seven people was the first extended case of local transmission on U.S. soil in nearly 20 years. The cause was almost certainly a parasite that hopped a ride in a human or a mosquito on an international flight or ocean vessel, since none of the patients had recently ventured overseas...