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I suspect that only China's government knows. The news management is particularly marked at the moment, but anything they do say about BF within the country recently seems to be quite bad.
Despite warnings from the WHO that we should pay attention to Indonesia, I don't believe that they know what is happening in China.
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(Mar. 08, 2006)
Boxun published a message sent by anonymous person(full text in Chinese), it says that WHO officer in China received bribery and help China government to hide the seriousness of bird flu in China.
Boxun claims that it cannot confirm the information at the beginning of the publishment, then publishes its full contents as it received.
It mentioned that WHO received dead birds (sample) in 2005, and WHO officer released the person's name to government. It said that two persons were executed in February 27 2006.
The message says bird flu has caused 820 deaths in China since summer 2005.
Note by Boxun editor:
One public clue may help understand the situation: the WHO officer in China supported and agreed the official data release by China government. While the scientist in Hong Kong - Guan Yi denied the official data with many solid evidences. In theory, WHO officer in China should have more direct information than a scientist in Hong Kong.
As the biggest citizen journalism site in Chinese, Boxun is largely supported by volunteers, and we do not have the resources to translate its full contents. The quality of translation is also problematic (sometime). Please understand us. (boxun.com)
(Modified on 2006/3/08)
Minister of Health Gao Qiang says bird flu is not highly infectious, but has warned people not to touch wild birds.
Speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), Gao said that it was not easy for humans to become infected with the virus from dead birds or poultry.
He said that while vast numbers of people have had contact with dead birds, there had only been around a dozen cases in the country of human bird flu.
Gao said that experts are investigating whether a certain deficiency in certain people makes them more prone to contracting the virus.
He denied that the H5N1 virus found in China was different from that in other parts of the world.
He said the best way to control the outbreak was still containing the epidemic situation in poultry.
He called on people to avoid contact between domestic poultry and wild birds, as the major infection source of the virus was still migratory birds.
"By decreasing the infection of domestic poultry, the number of human cases is naturally brought down," he said.
Gao urged people to keep their distance from wild birds and not to prey, sell, kill or eat them, to minimize the chances of being infected.
"We can cut down on many diseases as long as we get along harmoniously with nature," he said.
The slaughter of live poultry in urban markets should be banned, he said, adding that Beijing has done very well in this respect.
(China Daily March 15, 2006)
Isolation Over for 124 People in Close Contact with Bird Flu Victim
Isolation Over for 124 People in Close Contact with Bird Flu Victim
The 124 people who had close contact with a young man who died of bird flu in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, earlier this month are no longer in isolation.
The Guangzhou City Health Bureau announced on Wednesday that the 124 were removed from medical observation on Sunday.
The 32-year-old man who died, surnamed Lao, was the first human case of bird flu in Guangzhou. He started to show symptoms of fever and pneumonia on February 22. He died on March 2 despite receiving medical attention. Local medical experts ruled out that his girlfriend, who had been suffering from a fever, had caught the infection and she was discharged from hospital on Saturday.
Guangzhou also ended the daily report on the emergency measures as no new bird flu outbreaks in poultry or any new suspected human cases had been detected according to the local health bureau.
As of March 7, the Chinese mainland had reported 15 confirmed human cases of bird flu. Of those infected 10 died. Globally 175 human cases have been diagnosed resulting in 95 deaths. These figures were reported on the World Health Organization's website of March 6.
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