If you are a health official facing two highly contagious diseases - one that is already killing dozens of people, and another that threatens to kill people by the thousands or millions, but hasn't yet done so - how do you allocate your resources? The answer can be a difficult balancing act, as the situation in China is showing.rnAt the moment, Chinas top health priority is the potential threat of pandemic H1N1 swine flu virus. Over the past weeks China has had 108 confirmed cases of H1N1, so far without any deaths. But officialsrnfear that there could be enormous numbers of fatalities in the coming months if the virus spreads though the country's 1.3 billion people.
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