“It suddenly gave way and there was this roaring sound and we ran up the hill.”
Chen Youfu, a construction worker trying to drain a lake at Majingxiang, China – one of many formed by landslides during the Sichuan earthquake – describes running for his life when the lake burst through the landslide barrier last week (Reuters, 7 June)
“If the virus had to cause an epidemic among the general population in India and China, as originally feared, why hasn’t it happened?”
WHO director of HIV/AIDS Kevin De Cock, saying there is now little threat of a heterosexual HIV epidemic ever…
