WHO Defends Warning on Cambodia Virus
Updated July 10, 2012, 6:37 a.m. ET
As Cambodian authorities grapple with a disease outbreak that
has killed more than 50 children, they're also struggling with another issue:
how to best manage interest from the outside world without triggering alarm.
The issue bubbled to the surface earlier this week when Beat
Richner, a well-known doctor in Cambodia and founder of the Kantha Bopha
Children's Hospitals where the disease was first reported, complained that
international health authorities moved too quickly to sound the alarm, risking a
panic before they had all the facts.
Writing in a post on his Facebook page, he said the World Health
Organization's declaration ...
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