The recent upsurge in terrorism across the world is an extremely dangerous phenomenon.

The Department, in cooperation with the Mosquito Research and Control Unit, initiated a programme aimed at combating that infestation. 32

Also, more specifically for people with pervasive development disorders, the document Un geste porteur d'avenir Des services aux personnes présentant un trouble envahissant du développement, à leurs familles et à leurs proches, published in February 2001, updates the 1998 proposals and a new action plan.

Periodic outbreaks of instability impose high social costs on those who had the least to do with causing them.

Outbreaks, though very rare, still occur worldwide, including in developed nations, such as Germany and Canada.

Since the beginning of this epidemic, his main activity has been the distribution of medicine and moral comfort in the doomed villages of Henan.

Julie Hall, who is in charge of the WHO's outbreak response in China, claimed that China's vaccinations might be masking the virus.

By October 1994, the situation had also returned to normal in that region, and operations were concentrated on a few residual pockets of infestations.

Infestations in eastern Africa and the Near East had been brought under control, and large scale campaigns in India and Pakistan were concluded very successfully in November 1993.

It took much longer than sometimes we like to think in this story, but by 1866, when the next big cholera outbreak came to London, the authorities had been convinced in part because of this story, in part because of this map that in fact the water was the problem.

Consistent with the rapid spread of the HIV AIDS pandemic, funding for HIV AIDS activities has increased sharply since 1995, from 9 per cent of total population assistance to 47 per cent in 2003, up from 43 per cent in 2002.

As pointed out by the Secretary General in his 1994 report on a development strategy for small island developing States, large scale disasters are not restricted to such entities, but natural disasters are a particular problem in those countries because the effects are pervasive and often totally devastating.