DOH Director, Virginia Pressler needs to be fired.  On one hand, she says she was unaware that
researchers at UH had a better approach to dealing with the threat to public health of rat lung disease but yet on the other, she says that they are working collaboratively with UH and all its researchers.   Pretty much the usual double speak that Pressler and DOH comes out with every time a public health situation presents itself in our Republica Bananera.  The fact is that the
public here would not have been aware of serious danger that rat lung disease posed had 
UH researchers  and emergency physicians on the Big Island not gone public with the problem
despite opposition by the DOH and the threat of retaliation.  The DOH is now taking the
position that more study needs to be done on the disease and the cure is more public
education on prevention. DOH needs to bring in experts on the disease in the Third World and learn from them.  No need to re-invent the wheel, is there?