Tag: Travel Disease
What’s the Hottest New Rock Band Named After a Tropical Disease?
by Jim Benning | 01.23.04 | 10:37 PM ET
Dengue Fever. How can you not love a band with a name like that? Although the band is based in Los Angeles, the name makes some sense: The lead singer is Cambodian. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed Thursday: “Sixties surf and pop songs may be the group’s source material, but add the stunningly acrobatic vocals of a modern-day Phnom Penh pop star singing in her native tongue and the result is oddly striking.” The Times’ story is available online only to long-term registered users, but a local alternative weekly features a short report here (fourth item down).
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Yahoo! BuzzWho Can Change Your Future Travel Decisions? The WHO, That’s Who.
by Jim Benning | 07.16.03 | 10:09 PM ET
That’s WHO as in the World Health Organization. As a compelling Los Angeles Times article on Sunday explains, the organization has undergone big changes in recent years that have made it a major player on the world travel scene. Its response to the recent SARS outbreak had a dramatic effect on global travel. Reporter Charles Piller explains just how that came to be, and how the organization operates these days. “The doctors and scientists begin at 9 a.m. sharp, filing into room M405 at the World Health Organization’s headquarters,” he writes. “They crowd around a conference table surrounded by computers churning the latest data on diseases from every corner of the globe. This is the daily outbreak meeting, and the first case for discussion is an unknown fever in South Asia that has killed 34 children with severe diarrhea and convulsions.”
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