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India & the ASEAN
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H1N1 flu is still out in force, in Southeast Asia

If you are currently in Southeast Asia or plan to go there in the near future, then you should know that if you contract the flu there is between a 1 in 10 and a 1 in 5 chance that it will be the H1N1 virus.  And, if you are g...
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India & the ASEAN
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N.Korean Hospitals Now Linked By Video-conference!

I reported on this yesterday, wondering why the hell WHO Director-General Margaret Chan was overselling North Korea's non existent healthcare system. Keeping with the theme, the unveiling of this 11 computer-strong network (1 c...
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India & the ASEAN
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North Korea has plenty of doctors?

I'm a bit confused by this one. So the N. Korea says it has doctors and Chan saw many of them on her visit. Yet, even while admitting that international visits are staged she concludes that the country's health system would be ...
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India & the ASEAN
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Asian Germs are big newsmakers

Do you remember how scared you were when Swine Flu threatened to wipe humanity off the face of the Earth? Or do you better remember how much the media insisted that you feel scared? The Information is Beautiful Blog sums thin...
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Asia’s viral resistance marketing

Today we tend to think of SARS as a historical outlier, a freak genetic accident that got a few people sick in Hong Kong, China, and Toronto. It was a disease that both struck and disappeared within an eight month period betwe...
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