Foreign
Desk
| May 22, 2003, Thursday
U.N. Health
Agency's New Head Pledges Stronger Response
to Epidemics Like SARS
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN with ALISON
LANGLEY (NYT) 910 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 6 , Column 1
ABSTRACT
- Dr Jong-Wook Lee, newly elected director
general of World Health Orgn, pledges to
expand and strengthen agency's response
network to help alert world to epidemics
like SARS; says he would seek $200 million
from donor countries to train more
epidemiologists and develop field
laboratories in poor countries, as well as
to evaluate global response to new diseases
like SARS; he recently visited China, which
has reported overwhelming majority of 7,956
SARS cases reported in world; Chinese news
agency reports arrest of man accused of
deliberately spreading SARS virus; man
reportedly escaped from hospital twice while
being treated for disease; WHO expands its
travel advisory to include all of Taiwan,
not just its capital, Taipei, after Taiwan's
Center for Disease Control announces 65 more
probable cases on island (M) Dr. Jong-Wook
Lee was elected director general of the
World Health Organization yesterday and then
pledged to expand and strengthen the
agency's response network to help alert the
world to epidemics like severe acute
respiratory syndrome.
SARS is an alarm signal of the need to
strengthen disease surveillance systems at
local, national and global levels to fight
other new and emerging diseases in coming
years, said Dr. Lee, 58, a South Korean.
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