In the March 2004 issue of Leprosy Review A.B. Al Dobai and colleagues described the results of a leprosy elimination campaign in Hodiah Province in the Republic of Yemen. The presentation clearly illustrates achievement of the ultimate objective of LECs i.e. detecting leprosy cases of consequence and curing them with MDT. The finding of cases in excess of the estimated hidden cases of conseque...

INTRODUCTION Estimates of the prevalence of drug use in Denmark were, until 1999, based on the mortality multiplier method. This paper presents a study estimating the prevalence of problem opioid use in the Greater Copenhagen region using the capture-recapture method. METHODS AND MATERIAL Records from the prehospital mobile emergency care unit, The Copenhagen Prehospital Research Database, we...

In the years 1996 and 1997, the pattern of deposition of beached coral heads and pieces onto the shore of Telecom Bay within the Cape d’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong suggested that typhoons were a signi¢cant natural perturbation. In August 1997, 808 pieces weighing 60,930 g were washed up following passage of TyphoonVictor. 1997 was also Hong Kong’s wettest year on record and a survey of th...

[1] We explore the extent to which stochastic atmospheric variability was fundamental to development of extreme sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) during the 1997–8 El Niño. The observed western equatorial Pacific westerly zonal stress anomalies (ta ), which appeared between Nov. 1996 and May 1997 as a series of episodic bursts, were largely reproducible by an atmospheric general circula...