He agreed with the High Court judge that the road should have been inspected more often than twice a year, however he rejected her conclusion this "betrayed a lack of reasonable care" by the council.

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"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.

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