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THE VIRUS IS SPREADING RAPIDLY-EVEN THIS LATEST MAP IS NOW OUTDATED

Back in 2003 the main information was coming from professional journalists of Hong Kong and the WHO World Health Organization, who sent their experts in infectious diseases like Dr Carlo Urbani,  -as ther epicenter of the SARS o...

Outbreak of Viral Pneumonia in Wuhan:

What you need to know

What we know about the virus 

• The China National Health Commission has confirmed that the cause of the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan is due to a newly emerging strain of Coronavirus (CoV).
• Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cau...

In this ‘blogchain’, I will relate a vivid souvenir both personally and professionally impacted by the event. As I was involved in all aspects of the outbreak as a medical insurer but also based in Vietnam back then, I share my insider view of the past and current developments.

I have been fascinated...

My friend Robert Bicknell, who passed away recently, wrote in the following posthume article, that his greatest fear is to be forgotten.

I ask all of you as a favor to read his last interview with Golf Magazine at https://vietnamgolfmagazine.net/en/noi-so-lon-nhat-la-bi-lang-quen

You wi...

Most of the time, we can see comments that are a one-way, the ‘West-side-story’, and it sounds gloomy, despicable of the East-side-story. But as we say ‘when in Rome do as Roman’... or at least get the ‘intelligence’, in the warcraft sense of knowledge, of the terrain. Because you are in foreign ter...