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Just wanted to extract this out of AnneZ's post so nobody misses it:
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An unreported death in Chenzhou
The death of Li Juhua, a female farmer in Chenzhou, has not been reported by the Chinese media. Yet a lot of fanfare was extended to her son, six-year-old Junior Ouyang, who is to date the youngest person to catch bird flu in China, according to official records. Junior Ouyang has recovered and been discharged from hospital.
To Ouyang Xihua, now the widower, so many questions are unanswered. He is certain that his late wife and the boy showed the same symptoms, and that was why he wasted no time rushing the son to hospital in Changsha, Hunan's provincial capital, after his wife died. Yet he fails to understand why the diagnoses were so different.
He cannot understand either why, when the media of the whole country were enthusiastically reporting the progress of his little son, not a single word had been given to the son's ill-fated mother.
The bereaved family lives in rural Guiyang, a county under Chenzhou city. With his wife gone, widower Ouyang Xihua is now a single parent taking care of a pair of twins.
Last December 21, the family had dinner to celebrate the winter solstice. They were not rich enough to kill a live bird and could afford only dead chickens dumped by owners, which the poor collect and preserve for festivals.
The wife, Li Juhua, soon felt sick and was taken to the county hospital on December 23. At that moment, a grisly thought occurred to Ouyang that his wife might have been infected with bird flu, as he had watched news of the epidemic on television. Yet none of the doctors heeded his fears. Li died the next day, to which the hospital only gave a single-sentence explanation citing some rare dermatological disease.
A few days later, the son developed the same symptoms as his deceased mother. At the county hospital, the diagnosis given was tuberculosis. Ouyang dared not take a chance with the county hospital again and took the little boy to a hospital in Chenzhou, where the medical staff were concerned and referred the child to Changsha. There his affliction was finally diagnosed as bird flu infection.
"It is all due to that ****ed plagued chicken!" moaned Ouyang.
It is odd that Li, with bird-flu-like symptoms, did not attract the attention of Guiyang county hospital, nor did she have the chance to receive the treatment that her son later got to survive.
Under current regulations, all local-level medical institutions must report immediately to the Ministry of Health any discovery of human infection of bird flu, and patients suspected of infection must be given virus tests and treatment accordingly.
In a sense, the mother gave up her life to save the child. Her quick demise fortified her husband's belief that the sickness was no small thing and should not be allowed to stay in the hands of irresponsible county medicals.
Doctors in the provincial capital eventually cured Junior Ouyang. But in the official announcement of his survival, not a single word was mentioned about the infection of his departed mother.
According to a notice published by the Ministry of Health, on discovering the infection, local medical authorities should waste no time in taking preventive measures, giving appropriate treatment and necessary observation to the patient and whoever was in close contact with that patient.
When Junior Ouyang was making a steady recovery, reporters from across the country waited outside his segregated ward. There was once even a real-time online videotaping of his medication. The child was said to be happy, despite the fact that he had already lost his mother.
On the child's discharge, the Ministry of Health issued a statement saying no one in close contact with Junior Ouyang had developed unusual conditions. Again, it skipped the crucial fact that Junior Ouyang and his mother had been living together before death broke them apart. Or did the ministry take the mother's demise as nothing unusual?
In answering questions from ATol, a spokesman of Guiyang county hospital said he did not have detailed information about Li's case and refused to comment on why the case was not reported to higher authorities or why it could not be diagnosed as bird flu when it was so obvious.
Throughout the three months the ATol correspondent roamed among infested provinces, a lot of coverups were detected. This case of covering up a human death closely related to avian flu was, however, the most repugnant.
Xu Xiang is a Chinese correspondent for the Chinese edition of Asia Times Online
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...05&postcount=1
An unreported death in Chenzhou
The death of Li Juhua, a female farmer in Chenzhou, has not been reported by the Chinese media. Yet a lot of fanfare was extended to her son, six-year-old Junior Ouyang, who is to date the youngest person to catch bird flu in China, according to official records. Junior Ouyang has recovered and been discharged from hospital.
To Ouyang Xihua, now the widower, so many questions are unanswered. He is certain that his late wife and the boy showed the same symptoms, and that was why he wasted no time rushing the son to hospital in Changsha, Hunan's provincial capital, after his wife died. Yet he fails to understand why the diagnoses were so different.
He cannot understand either why, when the media of the whole country were enthusiastically reporting the progress of his little son, not a single word had been given to the son's ill-fated mother.
The bereaved family lives in rural Guiyang, a county under Chenzhou city. With his wife gone, widower Ouyang Xihua is now a single parent taking care of a pair of twins.
Last December 21, the family had dinner to celebrate the winter solstice. They were not rich enough to kill a live bird and could afford only dead chickens dumped by owners, which the poor collect and preserve for festivals.
The wife, Li Juhua, soon felt sick and was taken to the county hospital on December 23. At that moment, a grisly thought occurred to Ouyang that his wife might have been infected with bird flu, as he had watched news of the epidemic on television. Yet none of the doctors heeded his fears. Li died the next day, to which the hospital only gave a single-sentence explanation citing some rare dermatological disease.
A few days later, the son developed the same symptoms as his deceased mother. At the county hospital, the diagnosis given was tuberculosis. Ouyang dared not take a chance with the county hospital again and took the little boy to a hospital in Chenzhou, where the medical staff were concerned and referred the child to Changsha. There his affliction was finally diagnosed as bird flu infection.
"It is all due to that ****ed plagued chicken!" moaned Ouyang.
It is odd that Li, with bird-flu-like symptoms, did not attract the attention of Guiyang county hospital, nor did she have the chance to receive the treatment that her son later got to survive.
Under current regulations, all local-level medical institutions must report immediately to the Ministry of Health any discovery of human infection of bird flu, and patients suspected of infection must be given virus tests and treatment accordingly.
In a sense, the mother gave up her life to save the child. Her quick demise fortified her husband's belief that the sickness was no small thing and should not be allowed to stay in the hands of irresponsible county medicals.
Doctors in the provincial capital eventually cured Junior Ouyang. But in the official announcement of his survival, not a single word was mentioned about the infection of his departed mother.
According to a notice published by the Ministry of Health, on discovering the infection, local medical authorities should waste no time in taking preventive measures, giving appropriate treatment and necessary observation to the patient and whoever was in close contact with that patient.
When Junior Ouyang was making a steady recovery, reporters from across the country waited outside his segregated ward. There was once even a real-time online videotaping of his medication. The child was said to be happy, despite the fact that he had already lost his mother.
On the child's discharge, the Ministry of Health issued a statement saying no one in close contact with Junior Ouyang had developed unusual conditions. Again, it skipped the crucial fact that Junior Ouyang and his mother had been living together before death broke them apart. Or did the ministry take the mother's demise as nothing unusual?
In answering questions from ATol, a spokesman of Guiyang county hospital said he did not have detailed information about Li's case and refused to comment on why the case was not reported to higher authorities or why it could not be diagnosed as bird flu when it was so obvious.
Throughout the three months the ATol correspondent roamed among infested provinces, a lot of coverups were detected. This case of covering up a human death closely related to avian flu was, however, the most repugnant.
Xu Xiang is a Chinese correspondent for the Chinese edition of Asia Times Online
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...05&postcount=1
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