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...sounding the alarm on a lethal virus that ultimately killed nearly 800 people worldwide, Jiang's act of conscience helped prevent a global epidemic from spiraling out of control. But in a country where patriotism is often defined as loyalty to one's superiors, his good deed has not gone unpunished. Exacerbating Beijing's irritation, Jiang penned another letter-this one to about 20 senior Chinese leaders-earlier this year denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, while on their way to apply for visas for their annual visit to their daughter in the U.S., Jiang...
...rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...other countries. "This government has done a good job on treatment and care," says Dr. Praphan Phanupak of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. "But they have to get back into prevention. There needs to be a balance [between treatment and prevention] if you want to contain this virus...
...avian flu hit eight Asian countries, killed at least 23 people and led to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens-and that could be just the prelude. Last week China, Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the bird culls earlier this year had eradicated it. Officials in China appear to have responded quickly, barring the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culling 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. Thailand and Vietnam...
...avian flu hit eight Asian countries, killing at least 23 people and leading to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens - and that could be just the prelude. Last week China , Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the widespread bird culls had eradicated it. Officials in China quickly barred the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culled 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. So far, officials say there's no evidence that...