UN Chronicle E-Alert: COMBATTING GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS
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The World Health Assembly, which each May convenes in Geneva, has just granted
the World Health Organization additional powers to respond to new health threats,
including on-the-spot investigations, enhanced communications and broader sources
of reporting. This is a major step in the ongoing revision of the International Health
Regulations, first published in 1969, which currently limit mandatory reporting to
only a few diseases. In this second UN Chronicle E-Alert devoted to diseases and
their threat to global health security, we focus on efforts to combat well known health
threats, including leishmaniasis, leprosy, measles and river blindness.

See also part one, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/11/prweb66384.php">Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, which featured
articles on SARS, ebola, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as our earlier http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/11/prweb51350.php">E-Alert on
World AIDS Day. As in our previous E-Alerts, all articles are culled from current
and past issues of the UN Chronicle.

PART 2 - COMBATTING GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS

Web Articles
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/052703_who_elected.html">New WHO Head: Dr. Jong-Wook Lee elected Director-General"
    by Nuchhi R. Currier, for the UN Chronicle
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/052703_measles.html">Measles: Unnecessary Deaths and Disabilities"
    by Consuelo Remmert, for the UN Chronicle
    
Issue 1, 2003
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue1/0103p62.html">Two Million New Cases Each Year: A Veterinarian's Fight Against Leishmaniasis"
    by Inayatullah H. Kathio, D.V.M., of the Pittston Animal Hospital
    and Wilkes-Barre Animal Hospital, Inc. Pennsylvania, USA.
    He is also a Fellow and Research Officer/Consultant at the Food
    and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue1/0103p63.html">In Afghanistan, Tackling Leishmaniasis and Narcotics"
    
Issue 4, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue4/0402p68.html">Book Excerpt: We're Having a Heat Wave, a Tropical Heat Wave"
    by Robert S. Desowitz, Professor Emeritus of tropical medicine and
    medical microbiology at the University of Hawaii. Excerpts have been
    reprinted from his book, Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea
    Virus/Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics.
    
Issue 2, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p26_measles_initiative.html">Partnerships: Where a Child Dies Each Minute"
    by Phyllis A. Cuttino, Vice President, United Nations Foundation
    
Issue 2, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue2/0102p13.htm">Leprosy: Global Target Attained"
    
Issue 1, 1999
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue1/0199p6.htm">What Will Life Be Like in the Twenty-First Century? Who Cares? WHO Cares"
    by Yvonne Acosta, for the UN Chronicle
    
Issue 1, 1998
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1998/issue1/0198p12.html">River Blindness: Protection for 54 cents a year"
    by Frances Vieta, associated with the FAO Liaison Office in New York

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