"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Other Flus: The United Nations tells China to embrace transparency when it comes to bird flu:
Most human cases have been in Vietnam, but at a three-day conference in Kuala Lumpur experts said China represented a growing risk.
More than 6,000 wild birds died of the disease in the western Chinese province of Qinghai last month.
Joseph Domenech, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's chief veterinary officer, said that Chinese farmers' use of a human antiviral medicine, amantadine, on their poultry risked creating resistance in the virus. 'We are asking the Chinese authorities to be more transparent on that.' posted by Sydney on
7/05/2005 12:29:00 PM
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