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**Theresa42** · April 2, 2006, 12:16 PM

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400 Chinese students hospitalized with unknown flu
04.02.2006, 08:52 AM

BEIJING (AFX) - Over 400 students at a university in central China's Henan province were hospitalized with high fevers linked to an unknown flu virus, state press and a school official said.

The outbreak began on March 26 when 22 students were hospitalized with high fevers, Xinhua news agency said.

The next day the number of sick students at the Henan University of Science and Technology in Luoyang city rose to 88, and on March 28 there were 208 sick students in the university's infirmary, it said.

'There were over 400 students that became feverish with the flu,' a university official who declined to be named told Agence France-Presse when contacted by phone.

He refused to detail what type of flu it was or how the outbreak had succeeded in infecting so many students.

Local health officials were currently trying to identify the flu strain, Xinhua said.

The temperatures of some of the students reached 39.6 degrees celsius, it said.

The sick students were quarantined while school officials, under directions from provincial health authorities, cancelled classes and began disinfecting the university's 2,000 dormitory rooms, dining halls and classrooms, it said.

Most students were only hospitalized for about three days and released, the report said, adding that only several dozen students remained hospitalized as of today.

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Henan University of Science and Technology:

"There are more than 28,000 junior college students and undergraduates and 393 postgraduates on campus."

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**sharon sanders** · April 2, 2006, 12:18 PM

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AFX News Limited
400 Chinese students hospitalized with unknown flu
04.02.2006, 08:52 AM

BEIJING (AFX) - Over 400 students at a university in central China's Henan province were hospitalized with high fevers linked to an unknown flu virus, state press and a school official said.

The outbreak began on March 26 when 22 students were hospitalized with high fevers, Xinhua news agency said.

The next day the number of sick students at the Henan University of Science and Technology in Luoyang city rose to 88, and on March 28 there were 208 sick students in the university's infirmary, it said.

'There were over 400 students that became feverish with the flu,' a university official who declined to be named told Agence France-Presse when contacted by phone.

He refused to detail what type of flu it was or how the outbreak had succeeded in infecting so many students.

Local health officials were currently trying to identify the flu strain, Xinhua said.

The temperatures of some of the students reached 39.6 degrees celsius, it said.

The sick students were quarantined while school officials, under directions from provincial health authorities, cancelled classes and began disinfecting the university's 2,000 dormitory rooms, dining halls and classrooms, it said.

Most students were only hospitalized for about three days and released, the report said, adding that only several dozen students remained hospitalized as of today.

**AlaskaDenise** · April 4, 2006, 01:50 AM

Huong map with Huong He River headwaters

Looking at a map of the Huong He River (highlighted in yellow), which runs near Luoyang, I notice that the headwaters are in the area around Qinghai Lake. Also any migratory birds coming through Assam (lower left corner) would go over these headwaters also.

Tis similar to the Araz reservoir upstream from Azirbaijan ... and other locations.

Just pondering the possibilities.

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**AlaskaDenise** · April 4, 2006, 03:56 AM

Re: 400 Chinese Students Hospitalized With Unknown Flu

Apparently there is a similar bad regular flu making the rounds of schools in Germany - that may be our bug here. However, the fact that this area drains the headwaters of Qinghai lake, may be a fact we want to remember.

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**Binkerbear** · April 4, 2006, 09:20 AM

Re: 400 Chinese Students Hospitalized With Unknown Flu

After a quick read, it seems that they initially deny that it's flu and then they admit that it's flu but that it is cured within two days ? Seems odd to me.

**Mellie** · April 4, 2006, 09:42 AM

Re: 400 Chinese Students Hospitalized With Unknown Flu

Does anyone have contact with anyone in China who could check this information? Is the WHO checking? Anyone connected with any source that might be reliable and independent of any spin the Chinese govt could put on it?

DB · April 4, 2006, 10:00 AM

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It isn't Flu A or Flu B.....

High Fever and Sore Joints......

Sounds like Chikungunya has now erupted in China.

DB · April 4, 2006, 10:20 AM

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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2006.../asia_birdflu/

2006.04.04

HONG KONG—Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan are holding more than 400 university students in isolation after they contracted a mystery fever. Meanwhile, authorities in Shanghai have called for better preparedness as the highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads.

The students, from the Henan University of Science and Technology in the city of Luoyang, were being held at an undisclosed location other than the university hospital, a local employee said, confirming earlier official media reports.

“The students with high fever symptoms are quarantined...at a specific place,” an employee at the No. 1 University Hospital told RFA’s Cantonese service. “But we don’t know how many students are there now.”

Official media reports were also confirmed by an official on duty at the university.

WHO asks for details

“We have more than a dozen students with high fever symptoms,” the official said, after initially denying the story that was reported by the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua.

“Most of them are out of hospital already. We don’t know the details,” the official said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested further information on the outbreak from Chinese authorities.

Meanwhile, Shanghai mayor Chen Liangyu has warned municipal officials of a disastrous impact on the city of any epidemic among humans caused by the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Any epidemic outbreak due to our failure in taking strong and effective preventive, control, and monitoring measures would probably produce great negative impacts.

Shanghai mayor Chen Liangyu

A 29-year-old woman migrant worker died of a suspected bird flu infection in the city last month, prompting the city to step up inspections of poultry shipments from out of town.

“We should fully understand the grimness and the arduousness of our work of preventing and controlling highly pathogenic avian influenza,” Chen told a municipal Communist Party committee meeting.

Burma clamps down on poultry markets

“Shanghai is a modern international metropolis, and any epidemic outbreak due to our failure in taking strong and effective preventive, control, and monitoring measures would probably produce great negative impacts,” Chen said.

Burma’s secretive junta has announced bans on the sale and movement of poultry in a number of townships in its Sagaing and Mandalay divisions, official media reported.

“Altogether 3,427 fowls and 200 quails were killed in 37 poultry farms and two quail farms from the first week of February to second week of March 2006 and 5,122 were destroyed,” the Rangoon-based New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported in March.

Bird flu has spread rapidly since late 2003 from Asia to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The United States fears it will arrive on its shores before year's end.
Since the virus re-emerged in Asia in 2003, outbreaks have been confirmed in more than 45 countries and territories, according to data from the World Organization for Animal Health.

In total, the virus is known to have infected 190 people since 2003, according to the WHO.

Many of those who have died are children and young adults. Vietnam and Indonesia have reported the highest number of cases, accounting for 64 of the total deaths.

DB · April 4, 2006, 10:43 AM

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We have lots of conflicting information coming out about this story.

One report says the students are quarantined in an undisclosed location, another says they have been released from the hospital.

The truth probably lies somewhere in between.

If I was a betting man I would say that the sick students have been released from one hospital and moved to another hospital at an undisclosed location where they are currently quarantined.

If this was the case then you could not accuse the Chinese of lying, for they would only be guilty of not telling the whole truth.

**myredchinablues** · April 4, 2006, 11:20 AM

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I am sure that they have everybody involvd locked up somewhere. They learned with SARS, not to be transparent, I doubt if that will happen in several lifetimes, but to at least keep a tight grip on this type of situation.

**myredchinablues** · April 5, 2006, 07:57 AM

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The last line of this is highly disturbing. The medical bills are going to be paid. This would be something that they want kept under wraps.

(Abundant news on April 05, 2006) </B>Fever afflicts 300 students in city of Hohhot, China
Ji Mi
2006-03-31 (abundant news boxun.com)

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NEARLY 300 students fell victim to colds that doctors couldn't explain in Hohhot, capital of northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The mass fever has shut one of the two schools where the mystery ailment occurred, the regional Morning News reported yesterday.

Most of the primary and middle school children were released from hospital after doctors brought down their temperatures.

They suffered fever, cough, fatigue, and running noses. A small number had nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, according to the report.

Regional health officials took children's blood samples on Wednesday.

Most of the victims showed cold symptoms between last Saturday and Monday, the newspaper report said. The first case was found on March 11, the newspaper said, citing director of the Public Health Bureau of Togtoh County.

Of the 273 that visited doctors, 197 were students of the primary school at Xinyingzi Town in Togtoh County. The rest were from the town's middle school.

The victims are aged 6-17, but the majority of the cases are between 9-15 years old.

Authorities suspended the primary school. The reopening date depends on how quickly the children recover.

Parents of the primary school children were urged to take their temperatures daily. New fever cases should be reported to health authorities as soon as possible, officials said.

The county government will pay all medical bills.

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