Mary08 wrote: Hong Kong closed its Mai Po nature preserve ..............................................................................................     Some of that news is news we already posted on AFT .. we are good here :)

s China Making Its Bird Flu Outbreak Worse?

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.

Medclinician

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.

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.

this was the last news I found..

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.