Bird Flu update
From the
Globe and Mail:
bq. UN doubts bird flu linked with pigs
Hanoi — The human toll in Asia's bird flu crisis rose Friday to 18, as UN officials in Rome moved to play down test results suggesting that swine might also be carriers of the deadly virus.
bq. Doctors in Vietnam announced the deaths Friday of a six-year-old girl from southern Dong Nai province and a 24-year-old man from central Lam Dong province. They were the country's 12th and 13th human victims. Thailand has had five deaths.
The CDC has more info
here
UN groups like the World Health Organization do excellent work. I grouse about the UN a lot in these pages but I should clarify that I am grousing about the ineffective and corrupt bunch of marxist despots in the Security Council and not the people in the smaller organizations who are actually doing good work...
Posted by DaveH at February 6, 2004 12:03 PM