Ebbing away: Hong Kong's ivory trade
As Hong Kong moves towards the final step of a landmark ivory ban, TRAFFIC has released a report that acknowledges progress, but urges tighter regulation on privately owned ivory stocks, antique ivory
Hong Kong
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Still reeling
New SARS cases in China
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As thick smog rolling in
As thick smog rolling in from southern China blanketed Hong Kong on Monday, November 3, 2003, alarm bells rang. Said a spokeswoman for the city's Environment Protection Department, "Our advice is to
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Suffering SARS
Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?
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The pathogen s path
Several strains of influenza or flu have been named after Guangdong province, where the first sars cases surfaced. This dubious distinction stems from the agricultural practices prevalent in the
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SARS unravelled
Between March 25 and 27, 2003, two different groups of researchers in the cdc and Hong Kong University announced that a previously unrecognised coronavirus could have caused the sars epidemic.
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Caught off guard
sars is a stark reminder that there is no universal safeguard against infectious diseases. The syndrome has actu a lly exposed the lack of preparedness with regard to infectious diseases
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SARS Wars
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is making the world sneeze. Even as the global health community struggles to unmask a new, deadly, organism, it faces a 21st century dilemma: the speed at which its human carriers have travelled is faster than the
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High flying disease
From now onwards we have to battle with another mysterious enemy. Since February 2003, a disease similar to influenza has officially killed 48 people and affected hundreds of others across the world, especially in China and Hong Kong. But it was only in
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Fowl fever
Bird flu in Hong Kong, again
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Bytes
bold is beautiful: Anyone can become happy by behaving in extroverted ways. During three studies carried out in the US, about 150 randomly selected university students were asked to make records