Thursday, February 26, 2004

Indonesian Leader Consoles Dengue Families
AP reports, "President Megawati Sukarnoputri planned to convey her 'shock and concern' over the country's highest-ever death toll from dengue fever during a televised speech, a spokesman said Thursday. The outbreak had killed 260 people as of Thursday in 22 of Indonesia's 32 provinces and sickened more than 14,625 others since the disease was first detected last month, the health ministry said." :: Submitted for your files on Pestilence (Luke 21:11).

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