For delegates to the annual regional conference of the World Health Organization in Formosa last week, a must on the agenda was a side trip to a cluster of laboratories in Taipei. The labs are the headquarters of a far-ranging, little-publicized U.S. Navy unit known as Namru-2 (for Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well knew, Namru-2 has long since proved its value to Asia's...
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