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...forcing the world to begin preparing for a pandemic. At the WHO's 32-nation executive board meeting last week, health officials debated plans to strengthen disease surveillance, stockpile antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and boost research on a human vaccine that will soon go into clinical trials. In Thailand, where 12 people have died of the disease since the beginning of 2004, the government last week launched a $117 million fund to fight avian flu over the next three years, with an 800,000-strong team of volunteers. Experts say that kind of initiative is needed from every country...
...Health Organization's (WHO) Hanoi representative. Even if there was person-to-person transmission within the family, it hasn't spread farther, as a pandemic-causing virus likely would. (A recent New England Journal of Medicine article confirmed that such limited human-to-human transmissions occurred last September in Thailand.) But the threat of a pandemic hasn't diminished: as of last Friday, Vietnam has reported 15 human cases of bird flu since mid-December, 11 of whom have already died. The virus has spread to poultry populations in almost half of the country's 64 provinces. Most worrisome...
Bunch of villains chases the hero through back streets clogged with human traffic. Nothing new there. But watch the way Thailand's Tony Jaa uses his daredevil energy and grace to obliterate action-movie clichés in the pummeling, exhilarating Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. With a spring in his sneakers, he vaults over a pyramid of tires, a flotilla of cars and a class of children while being pursued by a gang of thugs. He dives through a ring of barbed wire, glides under moving vehicles. He jogs up pedestrians' backs and tiptoes on their heads. In this thrilling...
...huge hit in Thailand, Ong-Bak generated brisk box office in Asia, then in Europe after French auteur Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) bought the rights to the film, trimmed a few minutes and slapped on a new music track. Even before its February opening in 20 U.S. cities, the movie has sparked a rabid cult, thanks to festival showings, bootleg DVD imports and Internet downloading...
That's a big claim for a guy with just one starring role. Jaa still lacks Chan's Everyman charisma, Jet Li's eerie agility, Lee's smoldering gravity. Now working on his second feature with Pinkaew, Tom Yum Goong, Jaa says, "I want a strong foundation in Thailand. Hollywood? Maybe in the future...