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...time for... Jeopardy! And here's your host - okay, so it's not Alex Trebek, but please welcome Dr. Tony Garcia-Prats, a fourth-year resident at Baylor College of Medicine! And your categories today are - Outbreak, the Not So Love Boat, It's a Stretch, Something's Fishy, and, last but not least, Love Boat Trivia. Are you ready to play...
Nobody is claiming that the CDC has become another governmental basket case like FEMA--at least not yet. Indeed, the speed with which this past summer's outbreak of lethal food poisoning was traced to spinach tainted by runoff from a particular herd of cows in California is testimony to the CDC's continuing expertise. But the bad publicity comes at the worst possible time for the agency and its director. Congress is wrapping up its final budget for 2007, and the Administration is starting to draw up a preliminary budget for 2008. If lawmakers believe that Gerberding is floundering...
Authorities in Beijing think it may. Last week they announced a one-dog-per-household law in an effort to eradicate a deadly rabies outbreak by curbing the population. China is not alone: this is just the latest measure governments around the globe have recently taken to cut the number of certain unruly animals...
...World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During her campaign for the WHO's top job, Chan, who was officially backed...
...life on many campuses, with Shi'ite political parties and religious groups goading students to attack Sunni teachers. Many educators have simply thrown in the towel, taking their skills to other countries. In August, the Ministry of Higher Education said over 3,250 professors had fled Iraq since the outbreak of sectarian killings in February, when the major Shi'ite shrine in Samarra was bombed...