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US, China Cooperate on Disease Prevention in Quake Zone
May 16, 2008
By Stephanie Ho
Secretary Leavitt is in China to discuss food and drug safety. The topic has recently been pushed to the forefront because of reports that tainted ingredients from China, used in the blood thinning drug heparin, led to the deaths of dozens of people in the United States and other countries.
Since the May 5 earthquake, though, the secretary said Chinese officials he met with in Beijing and Shanghai this week had other, more urgent, things they wanted to discuss.
"I met with the Minister of Science and Technology today," said Leavitt. "He asked for some advice from people within our department on how to contain infectious disease, during the period following this kind of natural disaster. When the systems break down, infectious disease is one of the concerns that we all have."
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-05-16-voa21.cfm
Related Article:
Chinese Earthquake Toll May Soar to 50,000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/15/chinaearthquake.china4
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 16 May 2008
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