On treatment of bird flu

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 11/29/2006 12:48 PM | Opinion

I refer to the article on page 2 of The Jakarta Post on Nov. 28 titled Lawmakers head overseas again.

I read with disbelief that, at great cost to taxpayers, 15 lawmakers will visit a UN laboratory in Hong Kong to find out how they stopped a bird flu epidemic there in 1968.

I have two questions:

1. Who cares? Any treatment of flu that was relevant in 1968 would be totally irrelevant now due to the very nature of the flu virus and its ability to mutate at random.

2. Why doesn't someone just ring them up and ask them and hence save the country 250 million rupiah, which is the amount quoted in the article for 15 legislators to spend three days in Hong Kong?

Even cheaper, just email them...

IAN GREGORY
Medical Consultant ARC Clinics
Jakarta

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