Word: troedsson
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...plan to identify what strain it is," says Tran Duc Long, deputy legal director at the Ministry of Health. The delay has international health experts concerned. "It is an obligation to report it if they have a positive case," says the World Health Organization's Hanoi representative, Hans Troedsson. "It affects international public health and lack of information could have severe implications." Nor is the problem confined to Vietnam: many of Asia's governments appear slow to apply fully the lessons of openness and cooperation from last winter's major outbreak. "There are problems with transparency, difficulties sharing scientific information...