Health ministers from more than one hundred ninety countries met this week in Geneva to discuss issues like bird flu and other threats.  But the yearly meeting of the World Health Assembly opened with tragic （不幸的）news.  Lee Jong-wook,(李钟郁) head of the World Health Organization, died hours before he was supposed to give a speech at the meeting.(本应在一个会议中发言,却在开始前数小时死了) 
    Doctor Lee suffered a stroke（中风） last weekend.  He died Monday following an operation to remove a blood clot （凝块） from his brain.  Doctor Lee, a South Korean, was sixty-one years old.  The WHO named assistant director-general Anders Nordstrom as acting (代理的)leader.  Officials say it could take as long as a year for the organization to choose a new director-general. On Wednesday, more than one thousand people attended funeral services in Geneva for Lee Jong-wook.  Speakers there praised his efforts to improve health conditions around the world. Doctor Lee had worked for twenty-three years for the WHO, the United Nations health agency.  He played a major part in campaigns against tuberculosis, (肺结核)leprosy,(麻风病) malaria(疟疾) and polio.(小儿麻痹症)  He became director-general in 2003.  
    One of his major goals was to get treatment to many more people with HIV and AIDS in developing countries.  He worked to make the WHO more effective in dealing with infectious (传染的)diseases.