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“It suddenly gave way and there was this roaring sound and we ran up the hill.”

Chen Youfu, a construction worker trying to drain a lake at Majingxiang, China – one of many formed by landslides during the Sichuan earthquake – describes running for his life when the lake burst through the landslide barrier last week (Reuters, 7 June)

“If the virus had to cause an epidemic among the general population in India and China, as originally feared, why hasn’t it happened?”

WHO director of HIV/AIDS Kevin De Cock, saying there is now little threat of a heterosexual HIV epidemic ever…

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