The Lancet
Apr 11, 2009  Volume 373  Number 9671   Pages 1223 – 1310
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Perspectives
Hongjie Yu: monitoring avian influenza in China
Mark Honigsbaum
“To many people the prospect of taking charge of an immunisation programme for an area twice the size of Texas would be daunting, especially when their brief was to eradicate polio-a disease rarely seen today in the west. But when Hongjie Yu was offered the chance, shortly after graduating from China Medical University, in 1994, to join the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Liaoning he didn’t hesitate. Yu was to spend 7 years in Liaoning-a province in northern China with a population of 40 million-during which time he travelled in the province coordinating the delivery of polio and other vaccines to remote towns and villages.”