INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
WHO Wants 21st-Century Reporting Regs
Martin Enserink
Chinese authorities' initial dissembling over SARS--which included hiding patients in military hospitals and ambulances--is a model of how a country should not deal with a potentially deadly epidemic. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping such misguided behavior will provide much-needed impetus to revise a 52-year-old international treaty aimed at controlling global health threats.