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Infectious diseases are a scary thing, and even scarier is the prospect of exposing yourself to a potentially deadly disease simply by going on vacation. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control are still trying to track down some 80 passengers who may have been exposed to drug-resistant tuberculosis by a man flying on commercial flights to and from Europe earlier this month. So far, a handful of those travelers have contacted the CDC to undergo the first of two tests for the disease, and the patient himself was moved today to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where...
...Speaker disobeyed CDC officials when they contacted him during his trip in Rome and asked that he remain in the city until special transport could be arranged. It was then that an official for the U.S. health agency informed him that his TB was not only resistant to multiple drugs, as he had initially been told before he left for Europe, but was also considered "extensively resistant" to drugs (XDR), meaning most first-line and second-line drug treatments might be ineffective...
...CORRUPTION $850,000 Value of bribes authorities say were accepted by Zheng Xiaoyu, China's former food-and-drug agency chief, in exchange for approving drug licenses, a crime for which he was sentenced to death 170,000 Number of licenses that Beijing says it is reviewing, most of which were granted during Zheng's tenure. At least 115 deaths worldwide have been linked to tainted drugs from China since...
...Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), after he was convicted of dereliction of duty and accepting some $850,000 in bribes, according to local media reports. But while the severity of the sentence wasn't completely unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still...
...before you start feeling too sorry for Zheng, it's worth remembering that even in a country inured to reports of official venality, his case is particularly egregious. Zheng almost singlehandedly supervised China's drug industry for over a decade before his retirement in 2005. Through astute bureaucratic maneuvering, he managed to have the SFDA removed from the supervision of the Ministry of Health in 2003, after which it became a powerful agency in its own right-leaving it effectively under his sole control. According to Xinhua, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said Zheng "sought benefits...