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Topic: China continues denial of Bird Flu Outbreak 2009 Posted: February 06 2009 at 9:13am |
China defends bird flu vaccination plan despite deaths
06 Feb 2009 14:38:00 GMT
Source: Reute By
Lucy Hornby BEIJING, Feb 6 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Agriculture on Friday
defended its bird flu vaccination programme, stating there had been no outbreaks
since last June despite a number of human cases, some fatal, this year.
Human cases and the appearance of dead wild birds in Hong Kong have
caused some experts and media reports to question whether the virus is
widespread but undetected in China.
Five people died of bird flu in China in January, in regions far removed
from each other and in which there were no reported cases of bird flu in birds.
Three others have become ill, of which two have recovered, a toddler infected in
Hunan and a young man in Guizhou.
Apart from the discovery of a case during routine sampling in eastern
China's Jiangsu province in December, Chinese testing has not detected any bird
flu since June.
The Ministry of Agriculture said in a report on its website that the
strain found in Jiangsu was a variant, requiring the modification of the vaccine
programme in the surrounding provinces of Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui and
Shandong.
Meanwhile, two ducks and a goose found in Hong Kong have tested positive
for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that can infect humans. Hong Kong closed its
Mai Po nature preserve as a precaution for 21 days from Friday, after a dead
grey heron found there also tested positive for bird flu.
Hong Kong authorities are still testing 14 other dead birds found last
week on Lantau Island.
"We're checking water currents" to see if the birds were washed ashore
from mainland China, a government spokeswoman said.
While H5N1 rarely infects people, experts fear it could mutate into a
form that people could easily pass to one another, sparking a pandemic that
could kill tens of millions and topple the global economy.
China has vaccinated aggressively since bird flu first reappeared among
humans in Asia in 2003. But vaccination does not eliminate the virus.
In 2008, China reported six outbreaks of bird flu that killed 9,000 birds
and led to the culling of 590,000 birds.
(Additional reporting by Tan Ee Lyn in Hong Kong; Editing by Jeremy
Laurence) comment: really need more transparency in bird flu reporting in bird and human cases. Despite reassurances of forthcoming and open news on case status, huge events of bird culling have occurred on the Hong Kong border, and as many as a million birds may have been bleached and sold on the market for food which were infected. Medclinician http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK142436.htm
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Posted: February 07 2009 at 5:33am |
China suspected of covering up bird flu outbreak photo courtesy of AP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4510840/China-suspected-of-covering-up-bird-flu-outbreak.html"There must be some suspicions of the disease reported to the ministry of
agriculture, and some of those suspicions might have come up positive," he said.
"We are waiting to receive some reports describing the overall epidemiological
situation and the results of investigations."
The World Health Organisation declined to comment on whether or not there had
been a cover-up by the Chinese government. China was widely criticised for
suppressing and distorting the true extent of the SARS outbreak in 2003, when
officials in Guangdong covered up the epidemic for almost six months before
informing Hong Kong.
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Posted: February 13 2009 at 1:04pm |
The hidden epidemic in China is still unannounced while close to hundreds of thousands birds are being culled and large amounts of poultry are being sold which is infected with Avian. Unfortunately both WHO and the U.N. have stood beside China in continuing to deny the obvious, with telltail outbreaks in countries circling China for the last few months.
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Posted: February 13 2009 at 3:21pm |
Hong Kong closed its Mai Po nature preserve
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Some of that news is news we already posted on AFT .. we are good here :)
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Posted: February 16 2009 at 7:02pm |
Mary08 wrote:
Hong Kong closed its Mai Po nature preserve
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Some of that news is news we already posted on AFT .. we are good here :) |
This maybe as well - but different source
With
5 deaths from the H5N1 virus in January alone, many are questioning
China’s handling of the bird flu crisis, especially given recent denials of the outbreak. Austin Ramzy from TIME reports:
If mainland investigators are missing the virus, it may be because
efforts to block it are inadvertently hiding it. China developed an
avian influenza vaccine for poultry in 2005 and inoculates millions of
birds annually. But not everyone agrees it’s a panacea. In 2005 Dr
Robert Webster, a influenza expert at St Jude’s Children’s Hospital in
Memphis, Tennessee, suggested that China may have been using
substandard vaccines that stopped symptoms of bird flu in poultry but
allowed the virus to continue to spread. Recently, Guangzhou-based
expert Zhong Nanshan has also said there is a danger that China’s
widespread vaccinations could conceal the virus. “Special attention
should be paid to such animals, including those that have been
vaccinated,” Xinhua news service quoted him as saying on Feb. 6. “The
existing vaccines can only reduce the amount of virus, rather than
totally inactivating it.”
Mainland controls may also be lacking another layer of more basic
prevention in the way that live chicken markets, prevalent throughout
Asia, are inspected. Some worry that Chinese monitors may only be
calling for culls once a large number of poultry has become sick, as in
the Hotan case this week in which 519 birds died. In contrast, last
year Hong Kong culled thousands of birds after a regular inspection
found only infected chickens in a wet market. The infected birds,
experts say, showed no external signs of disease, and could have been
missed if inspectors were only screening birds that were dead or
visibly ill. comments: parts of this are in several places, but this article is a nice synopsis for the readers. To restate- on your thread of the use of vaccines which are producing multiple strains - they are also hiding birds with high path which are sold for food and do not physically to be symptomatic. Some news is being delayed for release until weeks later, making it confusing for readers. You may look at something dated Feb 6 - some it may have been posted and some of it is just emerging on the net.
I am now down to the last multi engine to get anything new. Tough going.
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Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:16am |
BEIJING -- A recent string of bird flu infections in
humans in China posed no pandemic risk as the cases were unrelated, but
authorities need to remain alert, U.N. experts said on Wednesday.
“The strain we see now is not a pandemic threat,” Hans Troedsson, the World
Health Organization's (WHO) representative in China, told journalists.
comment: okay - why not? What was the strain? What did the investigation of how it was transmitted show us? Once again, the U.N. is doing a 180, and joining in to say "don't worry- its fine."
Troedsson spoke at a press conference in the wake of eight human cases of
infection with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reported in China so far this
year. Five of those infected died from the disease.
Though the number of cases was up from three in China for all of 2008,
Troedsson said the numbers remained too low for great concern, especially as
they came during winter months when the virus temporarily gains strength.
comment: Well yes - the numbers are low considering you have 2 billion people. Don't they seem a little too low. Probably more people in China were hit by falling toilets and meteors and lightning than bird flu. Considering the surrounding infections and the sale of perhaps a million bleached chickens which may have been infected, and the fact that for 30 days or so not a single case has been reported makes us wonder why people even talk about it any more - at all. More people are dying of TB and Influenza than ever officially died of Avian. If it isn't important and there are no cases, why say anything?
“The eight cases do not really represent anything.... What it only says is
that we have a number of cases occurring during a period when we could expect
that there should be cases,” he said.
With the latest deaths, 25 of the 38 people infected with the H5N1 virus in
China since the disease re emerged in 2003 have succumbed to the illness, adding
to fears of an eventual pandemic.
comment: Now here is something worth looking at. The CFR has risen from 63% to 65%. Of a disease that produces 65% deaths is as bad or worse than the Bubonic Plauge
A pandemic, or a global outbreak of a fatal disease, usually occurs every
25-30 years, Troedsson said.
“What is important is that governments make preparedness plans,” he said.
Troedsson also noted that human-to-human transmission, which would signal the
virus had mutated to a form easily transmissible between people, had yet to be
seen.
According to the WHO, there have been 407 cases of human bird flu and 254
deaths in 15 countries since the strain re-emerged in 2003, with most occurring
in Vietnam and Indonesia. All recorded human infections of avian influenza are
believed to have been directly transmitted from either diseased or dead birds,
he said.
Still, much remains to be learned about the virus and governments should
remain vigilant, said Vincent Martin, an avian flu expert with the U.N. Food and
Agricultural Organization.
“The virus is entrenched .. you cannot deny that there is infection,” Martin
said at the same briefing.
“What we are lacking today is a complete and full understanding of the
epidemiology of the disease.” Medclinician
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Posted: March 05 2009 at 4:34am |
China says no avian H5N1 outbreaks detected
Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer
Feb 6, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – China's agriculture ministry said
yesterday that it hasn't detected any poultry outbreaks in the provinces where
recent human cases were reported, an apparent response to speculation that the
country isn't reporting outbreaks and to suspicion about possible gaps in the
surveillance system.
In a statement to China Daily, a newspaper based in
Beijing, the ministry said its assessment of the outbreak status of seven
provinces linked to human cases was based on an assessment of the overall
epidemiologic situation and investigations it conducted in January.
China has reported seven human cases this year, four of them
fatal. The cases hail from a range of locations across China, including two from
Hunan province; one each from Shangdong, Shanxi, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces;
and one from Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
Investigations into the sources of these infections found that
nearly all may have been exposed to sick or dead birds, such as at live bird
markets, according to previous statements from the World Health Organization
(WHO).
The country submitted its last H5N1 outbreak report to the World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on Dec 19, 2008, which described outbreaks
at two large farms in Jiangsu province, in eastern China. However, the virus is
considered endemic across large parts of China.
The agriculture ministry's statement to the China Daily
said the country had kept international organizations, including the OIE and the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) aware of current avian
influenza developments.
Some health officials, including York Chow, Hong Kong's secretary
for food and health, have raised questions about a possible change in the virus
or if asymptomatic H5N1-infected chickens might be contributing to the spread of
the virus.
Hans Troedsson, the WHO's representative in China, told China
Daily, "The fact that this is the highest number [of human infections] for a
single month in China reminds us that the virus is entrenched and circulating in
the environment."
China's agriculture ministry said that not all human cases have
links to poultry outbreaks, and it said that, of 37 human cases reported in the
country since 2005, only 4 were linked to poultry outbreaks, according to the
China Daily report.
Vincent Martin, a senior technical adviser in FAO's Beijing
office, said he met with Chinese authorities to discuss surveillance findings in
seven provinces, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. "The Ministry of
Agriculture in China has been extremely proactive in investigating the situation
in domestic poultry in provinces where these cases have occurred," he told AFP.
"So far, despite a large number of samples from poultry being
collected and laboratory tested, no evidence of infection in poultry has been
found to explain these human cases," Martin said.
Avian influenza experts have said that the size and make-up of
China's poultry population creates a difficult surveillance task. They said that
low levels of outbreak reports could be related to rigid vaccination
requirements, but suboptimal vaccination can mask symptoms without stopping
viral shedding.
See also:
Dec 19, 2008, OIE report http://www.oie.int/wahis/reports/en_imm_0000007623_20081219_120841.pdf
Jan 21 CIDRAP News story "China's
recent H5N1 cases raise transmission questions"
comment: China has been denying human and bird cases for almost as long as the first outbreak of Avian Flu in China. As posted many times, reporters and their families are intimidated and sometimes threatened for their lives for released reports of Chinese outbreaks of Bird Flu.
This trend goes all the way back to SARS where they put people in ambulances and hid them from WHO they could not be counted.
The hardest part, is that - as tracked on a separate thread - outbreaks do occur often- and milllions of poultry are currently infected with high path Avian in China. At the same time there have been statements before outbreaks were tens of thousands of birds were culled that there were NO cases.
As Mary pointed out - they developed a vaccine given to over 2 billion poultry which masks the symptoms of birds with high path avian, makes them test negative, and there by hides Avian in a continent which has over 2 billion birds.
This is no new thing. We have been tracking it for years.
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Posted: March 05 2009 at 5:15am |
Wuhan Bird Flu Outbreak Censored by Local Media
By Guo Liang, Yu Shancai
Courtesy of Epoch Times
Mar 4, 2009
(link now down) back up http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/13094/(this story is moving through the net very quickly)
Hundreds of thousands of chickens are
slaughtered in Wuhan Province to control the recent bird flu outbreak. (Sound of
Hope) A recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Wuhan City of Hubei
Province led to a mass slaughter of local poultry. Local residents report that
cases of human infections have occurred in Wuhan’s Huangbei and Xinzhou
districts. Local media has completely censored all news about the outbreak.
According to a source from Dongxihu District
of Wuhan, many chickens have been killed after bird flu broke out in Liji Town
of Dongxihu. The source said that several hundreds of thousands of chickens have
already been slaughtered in Xinzhou.
Ms. Zhang, a resident of Liji, said that many
places in Wuhan have been affected by the bird flu, but the media is forbidden
to report related news. She said, “The media aren’t allowed to mention it, and
we aren’t allowed to discuss it with outsiders.”
Other locals have also reported cases of bird
flu infections, and the mass slaughtering of chickens, in urban areas of
Wuhan.
Ms. Chen, who lives close to Wuhan, said that
people who have killed their chickens have not received the promised
compensation from the authorities. She said that she has twice culled her flock,
but received nothing from the authorities.
In January, eight people from Beijing,
Shandong, Guizhou, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Guangdong and Hunan were infected with the
H5N1 bird flu virus. Five of the eight infected died. On February 10, Chinese
Communist Party officials publicly announced that the first bird flu outbreak
occurred in the Hetian Area in Xinjiang Province. To date, no information on the
bird flu outbreak in Wuhan has been officially reported. Medclinician
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Posted: March 06 2009 at 7:05pm |
MC- yeah , 8 infected & 5 died in Jan, 09, then silence????
Meanwhile...V.Nam blames China for birdflu infected poultry smuggled into V.Nam
and China blames V.nam for for birdflu infected poultry smuggled into China
Add to that mix- Asymptomatic Vaccinated poultry shedding the birdflu virus
Hmmm...the silence is deafening
Btw..great thread, thanks for the effort/time you put into these posts
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Posted: March 07 2009 at 3:37am |
norein wrote:
MC- yeah , 8 infected & 5 died in Jan, 09, then silence????
Meanwhile...V.Nam blames China for birdflu infected poultry smuggled into V.Nam
and China blames V.nam for for birdflu infected poultry smuggled into China
Add to that mix- Asymptomatic Vaccinated poultry shedding the birdflu virus
Hmmm...the silence is deafening
Btw..great thread, thanks for the effort/time you put into these posts |
This is from January. Most of the information dried up completely on
February 2, 2009. The last outbreak (March 4, 2009) was quickly wiped out in the media
and locals were instructed not to speak to foreign journalists.
However, this video is characteristic of the overall climate and multiple outbreaks and cases in China.
http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/889219/beijing-denies-bird-flu-outbreak-woman-dies
It is highly unlikely there have been no further cases in February or
March- one brief outbreak was posted earlier on the thread. Thank you
Chan for this link.
CHAN:
A Beijing woman's died from the bird flu virus, yet despite this
Communist China's denying there being any indication of an outbreak.
The Ministry of Agriculture says experts found no trace of the deadly
H5N1 virus after searching Tianjin city.
Medclinician since the CIA worldfact book is in editing right now.. you can find more out about China as rest of the world by downloading the second stream files here which offer in depth and extremely valuable and well prepared information on all the major countries in the world. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/download/ ok - was - Correction to my multiple posts of a population of China of 2 billion - where it appears as of 2008 is 1.3 billion. This is probably mixing it up with the current Muslim population which is 2.6 billion.
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Posted: March 07 2009 at 4:24am |
It is Bird Flu Season in China currently. Below is an interview
with Microbiology Professor Chen Jixiang of Hong Kong Chinese
University. This, and other alternate news links provide with a
valuable window in the emerging situation of Bird Flu in China.
http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/904832/bird-flu-analysisSometimes
news is delayed especially that which leaks unto YouTube or independent
persons in China and Hong Kong. Remaining vigilant and especially
monitoring the ... Guangdong Province.. where I am
IMHO predicting we will see the outbreak or one of them as in SARS -
possibly the beginning of the Avian Flu Pandemic. It is a close race
between Vietnam where we have documented person to person spread of the
disease, confirmed rectal swabs from humans which contained the virus,
and received a scan of a hand written note from a nurse in attendance
with another nurse who caught the virus from the patient. A second
nurse was infected.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it...
http://www.chinaembassycanada.org/eng/xwdt/t58297.htm
alternate hop link if above is flooded..
http://tinyurl.com/cnomxh
(content on this link has been modified and replaced with EXTREMELY dated 2004 information) however befre modification the below is a buffer capture of site content. This is an important capture of spin in which SARS was not only downplayed- but the the real problem was not freely published for 6 months after the outbreak. This is something we cannot afford if we find Avian has mutated and is spreading in Guangdong- six months later.
buffer captured text of original link:
As for the possible public panic over a big SARS outbreak in Guangzhou,
the office said that it didn't see a significant public health threat
from SARS. "While the WHO does not want to downplay the seriousness of
the situation in Guangzhou or Guangdong Province or the rest of China,
we hasten to point out that so far there has only been one confirmed
case and one suspected case of SARS this time in a nation of more than
1.3 billion people," it said. and then
November 6, 2002
Outbreak of a mystery flu type virus reported in Guangdong province in South China. Five people reportedly died.
The Outbreak of SARS which eventually wound up in humans in Canada.
moving forward...
http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.3557.s.8.jsp CHINA yesterday reported a bird
flu outbreak in ducks in Guangdong, the southern province close to Hong
Kong where poultry at all commercial markets was culled last week. The
Guangdong outbreak, in a village administered.. comment:
This area is a flash point near the sea, Hong Kong, and birds on
islands off the coast are testing positive for high path H5N1. Transparency
and monitoring this closely in a nation where hundreds of millions of
people raise chickens in their backyards and have intimate contact with
poultry where a current vaccine used to maintain the poultry market may
be masking carriers in birds of high path strains. http://www.health.am/encyclopedia/more/avian_flu/Vietnam and Thailand have seen several isolated cases where human to human
transmission of the virus has been suspected. In one case the original carrier,
who received the disease from a bird, was held by her mother for roughly 5 days
as the young girl died. Shortly afterwards, the mother became ill and perished
as well. In March, 2005 it was revealed that a nurse who had cared for an avian flu patient tested positive for the disease.
Prevention and treatment Avian influenza in humans can be detected
with standard influenza tests but these tests have not always proved reliable.
In March 2005, the World Health Organization announced that seven Vietnamese who
initially tested negative for bird
flu were later found to have carried the virus. All seven have since
recovered from the disease.
Antiviral drugs are sometimes effective in both preventing and treating the
disease, but no virus has ever been really cured in medical history. Vaccines,
however, take at least four months to produce and must be prepared for each
subtype.
Increasing virulence In July 2004 researchers, headed by H. Deng
of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Harbin, China and Professor Robert
Webster of the St Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
comment: keep an eye on Dr. Robert Webster - he is one of the
most significant power players in virology and Avian and even our
entire vaccination system in the United States. He is extremely well
informed and a source of valuable information on what is going on as
well as a significant commentator on the issue of reassortment as opposed to recombination in the development of mutations which will lead to the Pandemic.
Memphis, Tennessee,
reported results of experiments in which mice had been exposed to 21 isolates of
confirmed H5N1 strains obtained from ducks in China between 1999 and 2002.
conclusion: There are prevalent facts we have gathered as we have tracked this over years. For some reason the Guangdong
Province in China has not only in the past been the location of
outbreaks of SARS and Avian, but has a high probability of being the
origin 50,000,000 in the U.S. did in 1968-1969, know that Hong Kong as
well, nestled next to this province is also a flash point for the
development and mutation of pathogenic flu strains.
And
this was a big deal. This is when H3N2 emerged- the leading contender
for a Pandemic IMHO as opposed to H5N1. H3N2 has a rather colorful
history in the last two years and a few months ago was cutting a swath
across U.K. and Europe getting ready to jump to the U.S. from Heathrow
Airport - having hit France hard when reporting on this evaporated and
we are told now the flu season is over.
Keeping
an eye on Guangdong Province in China is a high priority for us
Preppers. We don't want to wait for WHO is raise the alert level from 3
to 6 in one day, which is very likely what will happen. Once it goes
over 3, all the machinery kicks in, and that costs a lot of money.
Poultry will be boycotted from China, millions of Chinese will see
their survival and food supply culled, and many will starve.
Definitely,
as the clusters increase and the Pandemic begins, we want to see it
coming. Hopefully we will immediately get a sample, however possible of
the strain and begin 24/7 working on the vaccine. That is the vaccine
to really focus on. The one that will target the first wave of Avian.
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Posted: March 15 2009 at 10:13am |
A vender carries
skinned chickens at a poultry market in Shanghai, China Photo: AP
First half of March
The accusations came after at least 21 dead birds, including ducks and
chickens, washed up on beaches in Hong Kong. At least three of them have tested
positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus.
The Hong Kong government has said that there are no bird farms near where the
corpses washed ashore and that it is liaising with the Chinese authorities to
determine if they came from the Pearl River delta region.
There have been eight cases of bird flu infecting humans in January alone,
five of which have been fatal. The cases have been distributed widely throughout
China and there is a growing fear that contaminated poultry has entered the food
chain.
There have been unconfirmed rumours that infected chickens in Jiangsu
province were bleached with hydrogen peroxide and sold. There was a mass cull of
300,000 birds in December after an outbreak.
Lo Wing-Lok, a bird-flu expert in Hong Kong, warned that "something very
terrible" could be happening in China. "There's no doubt there has been an
outbreak, but the government has not admitted it," said Mr Lo.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation also said that there
"must" have been outbreak among chicken, duck or geese flocks.
"There must have been some virus circulation or possibly some outbreaks
lately," said Dr Vincent Martin, an FAO senior technical adviser on bird flu.
"There are more cases than last year, including in places where the disease was
not reported before," he said, but added that the FAO had not been told about
any further problems since the Jiangsu incident.
Since bird flu rarely passes from human to human, the victims in January must
have been infected by eating contaminated meat, he noted.
"There must be some suspicions of the disease reported to the ministry of
agriculture, and some of those suspicions might have come up positive," he said.
"We are waiting to receive some reports describing the overall epidemiological
situation and the results of investigations."
The World Health Organization declined to comment on whether or not there had
been a cover-up by the Chinese government. China was widely criticised for
suppressing and distorting the true extent of the SARS outbreak in 2003, when
officials in Guangdong covered up the epidemic for almost six months before
informing Hong Kong.
comment: we are putting up a wholenew security system on our computers as well as physically moving our server - recently we have found multiple keyloggers - tracking cookies- and must use a custom crawler setup to get anything decent as far as news, especially from China. Today when we came here- our system was hit hard. Our walls are up we will continue to data mine for outbreaks in China.
Since January and February when we began covering the extremely suppression of data - and with the March outbreak where reporters were kept out and citizens told to be silent- they are still in Bird Flu season and not reporting any significant cases in birds or people.
There is no doubt there is a Bird Flu problem in China and the new lab we are moving into will be a lot more hit proof-
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Posted: March 15 2009 at 11:11am |
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There is no doubt there is a Bird Flu problem in China and the new lab we are moving into will be a lot more hit proof- |
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Posted: March 15 2009 at 2:54pm |
What kind of reporting do you suppose you will get, if you kill the messenger? Didn't china impose a new law stating that if you report bird flu, you get shot or something like that? Seems to me that was reported on this form last year.
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 4:10pm |
from what I have read this year... a reporter stated that when asking any questions on a local level, reporters are told to get information from Govt. sources.
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 4:59pm |
*okay, Jan,Feb,March/09 (China) dead chickens, ducks and other birds most likely drifting down the large Pearl River Delta," and washing up along the city's coastline , floating in the sea, and yet, there is no explanation as to why these bird carcasses are appearing???????? They are focusing on wildbirds now as the most likely bird flu carriers, yet, most experts believe wild birds cannot explain the prevalence of the disease in the region??? Its poultry, no its wildbirds, no its poultry. Viet Nam is smuggling in infected poultry into China, Nooo, China is smuggling infected poultry into Viet nam.
Does this statement mean one can't hide the human cases anymore??? Something doesnt smell right. (Norein)
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 5:52pm |
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What kind of reporting do you suppose you will get, if you kill the messenger? Didn't china impose a new law stating that if you report bird flu, you get shot or something like that? Seems to me that was reported on this form last year.
| This may seem an odd post for MC, but no- they didn't leave a pod by my bed while I sleeping- Perspective is everything. And while we have the ability to span the globe and chat on the net to people in China - that does not mean we have a clue sometimes about things from the governments perspective on the world. We need to. Presidents, legislature people, and 'those who would be Nobel peace prize movers and shakers, travel to China - learn oriental culture, and may give the illusion like the song in reference to China- sometimes I think I am becoming Japanese - well we need to be a little Chinese to understand not only the lack of transparency, why the life blood of economics and poultry sales pushes hard to silence even a hint of widespread Chinese infection of high path Avian Flu in China. People are dying trying to get you the news. And a lot more will die if they don't. The key issues - that they have created a vaccine that is given to 2 billion birds which hides Bird Flu and allows the continued sale of poultry which is bleached is without a doubt pure fact. (to be continued) Medclinician
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 10:41pm |
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Wuhan Bird Flu Outbreak Censored by Local Media
By Guo Liang, Yu Shancai Mar 4, 2009 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/13094/(this story is moving through the net very quickly)
Hundreds of thousands of chickens are slaughtered in Wuhan Province to control the recent bird flu outbreak. (Sound of Hope) A recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Wuhan City of Hubei Province led to a mass slaughter of local poultry. Local residents report that cases of human infections have occurred in Wuhan’s Huangbei and Xinzhou districts. Local media has completely censored all news about the outbreak. | Wuhan is in China and is one of the largest cities in the world. Wuhan has a population of over 4,000,000.
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 10:46pm |
Real Estate Developer to Invest RMB 1.5B in Wuhan Polysilicon Project
Real estate developer Wuhan Dongli Properties plans to invest RMB 1.5 billion to establish a polysilicon production base in the Dong Xihu district of Wuhan, Hebei Province, reports chinanews.com.cn. The project's first phase is expected to reach production capacity of 1,500 metric tons and generate annual output value of RMB 3 billion after its completion in two years, said the report. Annual capacity is expected to reach 5,000 tons in four years, the report said. Established in 1997, Dongli Properties has nearly RMB 5 billion in company assets and has decided to concentrate new investment in polysilicon development and production, said the report.
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Posted: March 16 2009 at 10:49pm |
Feb 19, 2009 ... Coca-Cola uncarbonated drink production line invested RMB 300m by Wuhan Coca- Cola will be put into operation in Wuhan Dong Xi Hu district in ...
Coca-Cola will be put into operation in Wuhan Dong Xi Hu district in April; tea drinks production line of Huierkang Huangpo plant will enter the stage of operation; and Wuhan Master Kong will also invest RMB 10m to expand two production lines of tea drinks.
Insiders deem after analysis that beverage giants accelerate expansion of production capacity in Wuhan, the main reason for which is that at present prices of raw materials including steel materials and cement decline, and consequently lower the costs of production line of beverage enterprises and factory building investment.
In addition, under the condition of the financial crisis, the governments everywhere release more preferential policies to attract enterprises to invest. It was estimated that the beverage industry are expected to reshuffle within 3 years and in the future beverage market there will be competition of oligopoly.
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Posted: March 17 2009 at 1:25am |
this was the last news I found..
Wuhan, a large-scale outbreak of type A foot-and-mouth February 19, 2009 Thursday
Authorities blocked the news
【Message】 volksblatt Wuhan City, Hubei Province in the East and West Lakes Dairy go at the end of the outbreak of large-scale foot-and-mouth epidemic, more and more serious because of the epidemic, the authorities at New Year's Day before the full destruction of all the milk, and large-scale culling of cattle, burning pits buried This message has been blocked for nearly two months, a lot of Wuhan urban people are completely ignorant of the epidemic.
Epoch Times reporter, according to the ancient Qing abuse,古云Indian coverage of the news, according to internal sources, the epidemic after the outbreak of the East and the West Lakes government will report the outbreak to the provincial government, provincial government officials because of fear that it would affect performance, and strongly urged the informed staff information blackout, or will be made disciplinary action. Because of the spread of the disease, the provincial government officials fear the disease after the transfer of responsibility for failure to assume only reluctantly reported to the Ministry of Agriculture. After confirmed identification is a very special situation of foot and mouth disease, there is no vaccine can be controlled, it will be dairy and cattle destroyed.
It is understood that the city's East and West Lakes including quan, Wujiashan, maling, such as taking on more than 10,000 villages have died of foot-and-mouth cow was culled and buried.
East and West Lakes villagers accept the Epoch Times interview with Mr. Gao said, he said: "It is said that the disease has spread, we have finished this long to kill. Are buried, beef should not eat, did well buried deep, that is buried into the trench with an excavator , are crushed. Now no one, and here the road is still disinfection, disinfection of the past, vehicles have set up the card with more on the road are disinfected. "
Mr. Zhang said the villagers, from the beginning of December last year, to now being disinfected every day, this ride had a shed, (disinfection staff) to sleep every day at that. And out of the car have been disinfected, sterilized syrup On the way there to carry out spraying.
According to inside information, New Year's Eve day, the authorities transferred shoveling many large cars, at the quan infected farms, dug a number of six or seven-meter deep pit, the cow out into the pit, soldiers with rifles to kill him , and then doused with diesel fuel, ignition洒上burnt lime and general disinfectant, to return to the landfill soil. It is said that the whole process of culling lasted several days and nights.
Miss Zhong residents said: "Here Man-made serious, anyway, a lot of cow, all the killing. Now everyone who did not dare talk to animals. My family also went to clean a lot of cattle, on the road spray a bit of syrup disinfection. Huangpi (county) side to kill a lot of chicken, chicken fat that are a pestilence.'s side almost all the poultry. "
Because of the blockade of the news, Wuhan there has been no official notification to the public on the epidemic development, the local media did not report this news. But local media published a message "to the public transmission of the Hubei Provincial CDC Information: foot-and-mouth disease is not transmitted from person to person, even if the human body by the foot and mouth disease virus infection, but also have effective treatment approach. Urban and rural residents, there is no need for this disease arising from the fear and anxiety. "
Mr. Zhang said the villagers, the city of Wuhan on the newspaper once published borne two children because of the foot and mouth disease and alerted the Ministry of Agriculture officials, only to the local problem-solving, culled cattle. Listen to local disinfection said here a large-scale cattle infected with foot-and-mouth infected cattle from the field, or it may be from Wuhan City, through the air transmission to the East and West Lakes.
It Jiang'an District in Wuhan corridor communities much publicity columns, see standard inscribed Jiang'an District Health Office has published "A book people", the notice advised the public tactfully: as far as possible with pigs, cattle, sheep and other animal contact ... ... New Year period to minimize the outside to avoid resort to a nearby suburb and走亲访友... ...
Call the journalist Jiang'an District, Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention asked the staff of the Center, and now things like this, you have to ask higher-level authorities (Wuhan Municipal Health Bureau). Then call the reporter Wuhan Municipal Health Bureau, a staff member said that the foot and mouth disease this matter the Government has set up specialized agencies, which agencies are in the agriculture bureau. If someone infected with foot and mouth disease, have control, where work was undertaken by the Health Bureau.
Wuhan City, East and West Lakes epidemic prevention station of a staff member said: "Now do not tell and Epidemic Prevention Station and then touch, you can find our top level experts to consult." Finally, call the reporter asked Wuhan Agricultural Bureau, Agriculture Bureau To call to the reporter asked about the other units.
According to the news of the PRC Ministry of Agriculture of the East and West Lake in Wuhan City of Hubei outbreak of foot and mouth disease are A-type foot-and-mouth, which happened in China is the first time. And not only in East and West Lake in Wuhan, in mid-January to early February, Aksu in Xinjiang region and Fengxian District, Shanghai also appeared in A-type foot-and-mouth.
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Posted: March 17 2009 at 7:06am |
A bit of different information on your article Mary. I wonder what other incidents do not make the news.
Chinese Regime Covers Up Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak
By Gu Qinger and Gu Yunyin Epoch Times Staff Feb 21, 2009
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in dairy cattle breaks out in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei Province. (The Epoch Times)
A foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in central China led to the slaughter of over 12,000 dairy cattle at the end of 2008. While quietly sending military troops to kill and burry the cattle, Chinese authorities have not revealed the outbreak to the public.
The outbreak occurred in the outskirt of Wuhan City of Hubei Province. Local residents said on that New Year’s eve the authorities sent in armed troops and enlisted large digging machines to dig a pit 20 to 25 feet deep to dump in infected cattle. Soldiers shot the infected animals, doused them with gasoline and burned the bodies. Finally, the cattle corpses were sprinkled with lime and antiseptic lotions before being buried. The whole process lasted several days and nights.
Local villagers said all the cows and bulls in the area were killed and buried. Road barriers were set up to disinfect passing vehicles, and major roads were also sprayed with disinfectants.
However, authorities did not alert people of the epidemic disease. Local media also remained silent. Insiders say the provincial officials ordered the cover-up in fear that their records might be affected. Further investigation confirmed the disease to be a special type of FMD resistant to the current vaccine.
Villagers in the area said they do not dare to touch the animals anymore because they knew the disease was infectious. But most people in Wuhan City are not aware of the outbreak.
An Epoch Times reporter called several government departments in charge of epidemics, healthcare or agriculture. All refused to comment saying MFD is not their responsibility, and told the reporter to call other departments.
On Jan. 21, 2009 China’s Agriculture Ministry notified the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of FMD virus type A in the Wuhan region on Jan.13, and an outbreak of FDM type Asia I in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Jan.14. (What about the outbreak in December?)
Read original article in Chinese. Last Updated Feb 23, 2009
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Posted: March 17 2009 at 8:16am |
good find Annie.. Hong Kong has been very up front with the foot and mouth problem there. Measles is targeted for free vaccine in China.
Activity at the scene yesterday, the city of CDC experts said that the annual 4,5 month in Guangdong Province are the peak incidence of measles, so the province will be 3-4 month of measles vaccine to carry out immunization activities are very necessary. The city developed a measles vaccine immunization activities program, decided yesterday to April 15, at the city carried out within the framework of measles vaccine to strengthen immunization activities. Immunization activities in various districts since the date of implementation, the scope of area 8-month-old to 14 years of age for all children (including foreign children), regardless of immunization history, are a sub-inoculation of measles vaccine. He said the district as a unit, the target activity of measles vaccine for children to strengthen immunization rates ≥ 95%.
Source: Shenzhen News Net - Shenzhen Economic Daily Edit: Xiaoyue
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 5:18pm |
Still trying to break through the incredible China Wall blackout on the poultry infestation of bird flu and human cases in China. Below is what we are up against.
Apr 3—China tightens grip on online
broadcasting
BEIJING (Irish Times, Clifford Coonan) -- CHINA stepped up its
tight grip on the internet this week when the powerful State Administration of
Radio, Film and TV (Sarft) ordered anyone wishing to run TV shows or other
content on the internet to apply for a licence before broadcasting online.
The new rules are a blow to foreign
producers trying to break into the potentially lucrative, but heavily regulated,
Chinese market because it effectively means only state-approved TV stations and
cinemas will be able to import content for webcasting.
The rules come soon after a ban on the online TV site YouTube,
which cannot be accessed in China because of footage broadcast showing the
beating of protesters by Chinese police during last year’s riots in Tibet.
Despite the watching net nannies who patrol
the Great Firewall of China, the web has been abuzz with discontented chatter
over official remarks last week relating to the YouTube ban.
“The internet in China is fully open and the
Chinese government manages the internet according to the law. As for what you
can and cannot watch, watch what you can watch, and don’t watch what you cannot
watch,” foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference. ...
“If they put everyone in prison, there would
be less people to buy houses, then house prices would stabilise, then angry
people would disappear. So the government should build more prisons to stimulate
the economy,” wrote one blogger.
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