Back on the mainland, Lu Hongzhou, a senior health official in Shanghai, dismisses public and media suspicions that the city covered up or delayed reporting the initial outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu last month, reports Liberation Daily.

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When a tree falls in the forest and public health officials are located nearby must one official ask another official if it made a noise?

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We must increase official development assistance (ODA) in public health, including for building basic infrastructure.

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Agha Gul Dost, an official with Afghanistan's ministry of public health, said Afghan immunization programs faced extreme challenges, both from continuing violence and insecurity as well as from the country's forbidding terrain.

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