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...charges of plotting to murder President Robert Mugabe and says the government fabricated the allegations to discredit him. Better Than Nothing NORTH KOREA The second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended in Beijing without a major breakthrough, although Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement saying that all parties had committed themselves to "a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula" and agreed to meet again before July...
...Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. "That's a frightening possibility." If H5N1 does evolve into a flu that humans can spread, a vaccine could be developed but would take months. "Once you know this virus can spread from human to human, region to region," says Dr. Yi Guan, a SARS and avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, "it's already too late...
...incubation period for SARS is 14 days. The last civets were taken from the wild-animal markets on Jan. 6. By Jan. 20, if no new human cases emerge, we will have a very good indication if Yi, and the Guangdong government, made the right call. --With reporting by Jodi Xu/Guangzhou
...Yi's hosts were skeptical of the impetuous virologist, remembering that it had been Yi, in the early days of the first epidemic, who kept incorrectly insisting that SARS was a novel form of avian influenza. Even after the genetic sequences had arrived, his peers were unconvinced. "When someone is showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his counterparts if they had the sequences for the human patient now recovering in Guangzhou...
...Yi's American mentor, Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., a pioneer in establishing the zoonotic origins of many influenzas, says, "The research is solid, but still, Yi has certainly stuck his neck way out there on this one." Yi, as usual, is dismissive of any doubts. Back in Hong Kong, he explains how the virus found in other animals such as badgers is genetically less similar to the strains found in humans, before vowing that culling civets "will break the chain of infection...