Dear friends, colleagues, and web-surfers,

unfortunately I am terminally ill, which is why I will not be able to update the entire domain www.ldb.org any longer. I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

We are currently trying to secure the future of the WWW Virtual Library Public Health by finding funds which will secure its independence within the international public health community. The Library has become a surprising success story, having made it into the Top Ten of the Google Search Engine and to No 1 in the Open Directory structure of Google. Currently, the Library attracts around 20.000 unique hits per months. I'd say, not bad for a one-man project in the public domain, where it definitely belongs to.

I wish to express my deep thanks for your generous support to keep this public domain web-site alive and full of critical information.

My wife will keep the domain alive and running until April 2003 for those who might wish to take a look ...

I bid you farewell - Eberhard R. Wenzel, 15 August 2001