Chinese doctor to lead health agency
From Times Wire Reports
Dr. Margaret Chan, who has spearheaded the World Health Organization’s fight against bird flu, was chosen to head the Geneva-based agency through June 2012.
Chan was Hong Kong’s health director when the territory reported the world’s first known human outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in 1997. Six people died, but Chan was credited with heading off a human health crisis by ordering the slaughter of Hong Kong’s entire poultry population -- about 1.5 million birds -- in three days.
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