Pats asks: "So Ashu, does "the incentive is to play up the crisis; get more funding, attract more attention, and so on and on, " apply to RNA as well?" One-word answer: YES. As shocking as this sounds, this has been a very profitable war in a resource-poor country for most DIRECTLY concerned people who themselves have very little to lose either way. It's the poor who do the dying . . . on all sides. oohi ashu