SARS outbreak in Baoding, Hebei province, China a rumor: says (Taiwan) CDC- Identified as Adenovirus outbreak

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This is a questionable source, having made incorrect reports in the past:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/chinese-netizens-claim-sars-has-returned-195187.html

Chinese Netizens Claim SARS Has Returned Blog posts say several have already died
By Shen Yuqing
Epoch Times Staff Created: February 23, 2012 Last Updated: February 24, 2012 .Related articles: China ? Society

Netizens in China are raising the alarm about the return of a deadly illness?they say SARS is back in China, and Chinese officials cannot be trusted to keep people safe.

Posts on well-known blog sites such as Baidu, Tianya, and Weibo in mainland China and the Golden Forum in Hong Kong say that: hospitals in China are once again seeing SARS patients; several patients have died; and nearly 100 are quarantined.

SARS?the acronym stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome?appeared in 2003, infecting over 8000 people in 26 countries, and causing 774 deaths, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, which describes SARS as the 21st century?s first pandemic.

According to the netizens? posts, SARS has appeared in two spots in northeastern China: Baoding in Hebei Province and in Dalian City in Liaoning Province. Local residents in Baoding also told Epoch Times reporters that there were SARS cases in the area.

According to an article in CNA, the Taiwan news service, on Feb. 23 Taiwan?s Centers for Disease Control asked officials in Beijing to confirm whether SARS has reappeared. Later, the deputy director of Taiwans? Centers for Disease Control, Zhou Zhihao, announced that China?s Department of Public Health denied there was another outbreak of SARS.

According to a netizen, Hong Kong officials were given the same answer.

Anderson Chen Xingchang posted a message on Sina blog: ?Regarding the hearsay that the No. 252 Hospital in Baoding had found SARS patients recently, Hong Kong Department of Health has communicated with China?s Department of Health, and learned that the initial result indicated it was not SARS. Related departments in China will release the information later.?

In response to the official denials, netizens reminded each other of Beijing?s cover-up of SARS in 2003. One of them said, ?Be on your guard! If you trust mainland China?s information channel, even if you trust 5 percent of it, you will die. Do you still remember what happened when SARS broke out years ago??

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OK. I absolutely believe that an unidentified ARI outbreak in Hebei caused a SARS rumor, but what about Dalian? I haven't found any details as to the source of that rumor yet...

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Both locations here again:

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_china/2012-02-24/Rumors-of-New-SARS-Cases-in-China-Spread-Online.html

Rumors of New SARS Cases in China Spread Online
Created: 2012-02-24:07.3053

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Category: China According to unconfirmed rumors, SARS victims are being treated at the No. 252 People's Liberation Army Hospital in Baoding, Hebei province, China. Chinese authorities have denied any SARS outbreak. Rumors are spreading online about a possible new outbreak of SARS in China. SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, spreads through close person-to-person contact.

Online reports said that SARS had appeared in Baoding of Hebei Province and Dalian City of Liaoning Province. They also said some people have died.

According to The Epoch Times, locals confirmed that SARS cases were found in Baoding.

On Thursday, Taiwan?s Centers for Disease Control asked officials in mainland China to confirm the recent outbreak of SARS, according to Taiwanese media. But Chinese officials denied it.

Rumors about SARS in China are spreading on the country?s major websites. Those include Baidu, Tianya, and Weibo.

Netizens believe that officials are just covering up the issue ? a reminder of how they handled the SARS outbreak in 2003.

The first case of SARS was found in Guangdong Province in 2002, and spread throughout the world in 2003. Chinese officials did not inform the WHO about the Guangdong outbreak for three months.

According to WHO statistics, in 2003, there were 8,096 suspected cases, causing 774 deaths. One of the major countries infected was mainland China, with 5,327 cases.

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/02/25/2003526345

CDC denies China SARS outbreak report
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY:Late yesterday the Chinese health authorities told the CDC the outbreak in Hebei Province had been confirmed to be an adenovirus type 55 infection
Staff Writer, with CNA

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Thursday that there was no SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak in China, despite unverified reports circulating on the Internet.

The Chinese health authorities have said that there is no SARS outbreak within its territory, CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Jih-haw (周志浩) said on Thursday.

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Chou said that adenovirus infection was easy to treat and that the CDC did not need to investigate any further.

Adenovirus type 55 infection was first discovered in China?s Shaanxi Province in 2006. Of 254 high school students treated for the infection, only one died.

There is no record of adenovirus type 55 infection in Taiwan, CDC statistics show.

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Re: SARS outbreak in Baoding, Hebei province, China a rumor: says (Taiwan) CDC- Identified as Adenovirus outbreak

Both locations here again:

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Online reports said that SARS had appeared in Baoding of Hebei Province and Dalian City of Liaoning Province. They also said some people have died.

For background on Liaoning Province:

China - Sudden increase of influenza, pneumonia & asthma patients in Shenyang, Liaoning province January 12

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This article says there was a "surge" of fever patients in the hospitals in Dalian 3 weeks ago.

Patients with a fever surge of temperature changes during Chinese New Year in Dalian
January 29, 2012 08:41:47 Source: Peninsula Morning News



Wanted to take advantage of holiday to relax, good friends and relatives get together, and, behold he was a fever dragged the hind legs. The reporter learned from Dalian city's major hospitals, during the Spring Festival this year, more than usual because of a fever to seek medical attention a lot. The doctor said, mainly because these days the temperature changes caused by.

Who lives in Spring Willow near Lee told reporters that his lover from the beginning New Year's Day fever and cough, cold symptoms the next day . Eat some medicine, both the delay have not brought the matter to desperation had to Dalian city center hospital. The body fits and starts, head sink to death, his voice even speechless. "Lee told reporters that, because of the cold, he and his wife have not been good. Until yesterday, Mr. Lee's cold symptoms is still not improved in resting helpless at home.

Yesterday morning, the reporter visited the Dalian Central Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian Medical University First Affiliated hospital and other hospitals, although the Chinese New Year holidays have not been to hospitals for treatment of patients is still very much, especially respiratory more accounted for a "hero." Children's Hospital in Dalian, the waiting room is crowded with small patients. Is his son infusion Li Li told reporters son every day on the outside to set off firecrackers and touched a cold day, cold. These days, **** up a few bottle, but still a high fever.

Dalian Medical University Second Affiliated Hospital emergency room, a duty officer told reporters that had originally thought that a fever patients during the holiday season will be less, did not think this is not so. In the interview, the reporter learned during the holiday season binge eating, gastrointestinal disease, gastrointestinal disease patients also showed an increasing trend.

Taking into account the holiday just past, the doctor reminded the public as soon as possible to adjust your diet and living conditions, it is recommended that after the holiday to eat more vegetables, eat less spicy food difficult to digest, especially to avoid meat and fish. (Reporter Zang Chaogang)

Zhttp://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.ln.xinhuanet.com/2012-01/29/content_24599697.htm

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Re: SARS outbreak in Baoding, Hebei province, China a rumor: says (Taiwan) CDC- Identified as Adenovirus outbreak

About adenovirus

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/211738-overview

It is worth noting that whilst most adenovirus infections are minor producing cold like symptoms, they can also (rarely) be severe; there are subtypes e.g. adenovirus14 which can be severe.

http://www.cdc.gov/adenovirus/adenovirus-14.html

The above report cites Adenovirus 55, but it is unusual for large numbers of hospitalisations to occur with adenovirus infection.
Footnote: I cannot find any clinical research reports or data on type55 adenovirus, so it is an unknown if this is a known 'severe' viral type, or similar to type 7 or 14 in its clinical presentation

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For background on Liaoning Province:

China - Sudden increase of influenza, pneumonia & asthma patients in Shenyang, Liaoning province January 12

Thank you for keeping track of this. The fact that only the two dissident sources mention Liaoning is consistent, IMO, with the earlier date. At this point, the ARI in Liaoning wouldn't be news if it was 5 weeks old (and NOT SARS).

I am encouraged by this entire episode, both in how the information made it out anyhow, as well as the fact that China seems to still be testing severe ARI cases for SARS.

As far as severity, we have several reports here on FT of adenovirus outbreaks in military camps in Malaysia with multiple fatalities (http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=163686 for example). Post #18 mentions an adenovirus 55 outbreak in 2006 in China with a fatality in it as well. It is impossible to know the denominator in Baoding, but it could be quite large.

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Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/n...a-confirms.htm

Updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 0:05 am TWN, CNA
China confirms adenovirus outbreak: CDC

TAIPEI--An outbreak of disease that is causing a stir in the Chinese online community is not SARS but adenovirus (腺病毒) infection, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 疾管局) confirmed yesterday after checking with the Chinese health authorities.

China told the CDC that the suspected outbreak in Hebei Province was in fact adenovirus type 55 infection, CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Chih-hau (周志浩) said...

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Here are other recent pneumonia/ILI/respiratory reports in China. I have included H5N1 because this disease presents with acute respiratory distress in most patients:


China - Significant increase in pneumonia and respiratory disease in children in Zhengzhou City, Henan province February 23

China - Public advised to wear mask outdoors due to contaminants in the air - Wenzhou, Zhejiang province February 23

China - Flu patients double in 1 week at Hebei Children's Hospital - many have severe pneumonia, fever, convulsions February 22

China - Respiratory illness "soared" in children in Zaozhuang, Shandong province February 15

China - Asthma, colds, fever, respiratory disease increased significantly due to cold weather - Shanghai February 10

China - Shantou CDC warns not to eat raw eggs and to avoid unnecessary contact with poultry due to H5N1 fears - Guangdong province February 5

China - Surge in emergency room patients during New Year's holiday in Guiyang city, Guizhou province February 2

China - Hebei province CDC Advises to Not Eat Dead Poultry to Avoid Bird Flu H5N1 February 2

China - Surge in emergency room patients during New Year's holiday in Guiyang city, Guizhou province February 2

China - Surge in ICU Patients Due to Cold Weather in Nanjing, Jiangsu January 26

China - 2510 children in admissions yesterday in Zhejiang Children's Hospital due to "fever pneumonia" January 16

WHO confirmation of H5N1 patient - 39 year-old male from Guiyan City, Guizhou Province. He developed symptoms on 6 January 2012 and was admitted to hospital but was in critical condition and died on 22 January 2012.

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hat tip to CarolSC at FluWiki


SARS Rumour Update: East Wing of Hebei Baoding No.252 Hospital is Guarded by Army and Police

Copy the link below - minus the lead "Z" onto your browser to see the video:

Zhttp://badcanto.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/east-wing-of-hebei-baoding-no-252-hospital-is-guarded-by-army-and-police/

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Another denial -

machine translation -



Ministry of Health, "Baoding, 252 Hospital of the SARS epidemic rumor
2012-02-25 19:03:50 Source: Xinhua 　

Xinhua Beijing, February 25 (Reporter Lvnuo) Ministry of Health on the 25th rumor recent concern in the community, Baoding, 252 Hospital of the SARS epidemic. Ministry of Health, Baoding, Hebei Province People's Liberation Army 252 Hospital admitted to the respiratory tract infection fever patients, with the authorities to verify, to rule out SARS, a stream of human infection with highly pathogenic avian flu has been confirmed for the 55 type of adenovirus-caused respiratory infections.

Ministry of Health and ended at 8:00 on February 25th, the fever cases with mild-oriented, non-critically ill patients, no deaths. Various proactive prevention and control measures, the epidemic has been effectively controlled.

According to reports, the adenovirus is a common cause of human respiratory tract infection can be spread by respiratory droplets and close contact. The cases are mainly manifested as fever, cough, sore throat and other symptoms, the vast majority of cases mild symptoms, the prognosis is good.


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This may indicate a second fatality due to adenovirus 55 infection, as well as cases in three other hospitals.

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1428639672

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1428639672&ei=1hlJT7m4MeX50gGhtMzkDg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CIMBEO4BMAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsars%2B252%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1229%26bih%3D579%26tbs%3Dqdr:h%26prmd%3Dimvnsb

Apple Daily reporter recently went to Baoding, on-site to hit the 252 Hospital of Eastern Hospital District has been blocked, the door has a wearing masks ** stationed. Currently about 300 soldiers hospitalized in isolation and treatment, two people were killed. More astonishing is that the other three hospitals have treated suspected SARS patients.


252 Hospital staff said that many soldiers of the fever still can not bring down a fever after the injection. A retired medical personnel said, "The PLA General Logistics Ministry of Health" and "People's Liberation Army General Hospital (301 Hospital)," experts have been stationed in the laboratory.
Major mainland websites on SARS coverage page on the 24th are removed. The 5th meeting of the 11th Chinese Communist CPPCC National Committee spokesman Zhao yesterday to clarify the 252 hospital fever epidemic adenovirus infection has been to control

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http://www.chinasmile.net/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=537982

Although the Chinese Communist authorities rumor vigorously denied that the 252 Chinese military hospital outbreak of suspected atypical pneumonia (SARS) infection epidemic events, but the authorities lack credibility, rumors have actually caused people to greater panic. "Apple" Correspondent in Hong Kong yesterday (February 24) arrived in Baoding found among the 252 Hospital of Eastern Hospital District was a military police blocked about 300 Army, 38 soldiers of the Chinese Communist elite troops were receiving isolated outside, and local public events, but unaware of this.

Reporters at the scene of the "Apple" to hit the mysterious virus 300 soldiers isolation

According to NTDTV reports, the recent rumors of the Baoding SARS epidemic, multiple sites on the mainland spread rapidly, before the network to pass the local military hospital to seal a building, 38 Group Army in Chinese Communist isolation to receive more than 100 SARS patients, including the death of a soldier.

Hong Kong's Apple Daily reporter deliberately arrived in Baoding, Hebei, live interviews, found among the 252 Hospital of Eastern Hospital District was a military and police blocked about 300 Chinese military elite troops, attached to the 38th Regiment soldiers were receiving isolated outside, near the belong to the military Hebei Invalides is also the soldiers were isolated, resident of the 38 group army also blocked.

The reporter witnessed, 252 Hospital of the West Branch is normally open to the public, but fifty-four East Road, Eastern Hospital, Hebei University, South Campus next to the inpatient department downstairs, wearing masks guarded by military police. Nearby stall, said the evening, one week ago, witnessed hundreds of soldiers were pulled here to check isolation, I heard that two people have died. Reporters wishing to enter the Eastern Hospital District, but said about 300 soldiers, including isolation, not allowed to enter the guard block.

"Apple Daily" quoted the words of the hospital, a retired medical personnel, said the Chinese military experts are inside the test, patients with serious cases of fever subside.

Nearby traders say, from 10 a few days ago, the 38th Army a succession of soldiers with a fever, was first sent to Hebei Province, near the Invalides, followed by as much as an even 80% of soldiers cold and persistent fever, caused by his superiors attention, began to seal the entire group. One week ago, military vehicles to a large number of soldiers have symptoms of infection to the 252 hospital isolation, but there are still soldiers of the Invalides hospital isolation.

Tight news blockade, although the Internet on the sand epidemic more speculation more intense Baoding face unusually quiet public life as usual. Many of the 252 military hospital, a large number of soldiers have been isolated and has no knowledge of, and even the 252 near the hospital, many residents are unaware of.

The 24th Chinese Communist CDC Deputy Secretary Jih-Haw Chou also said outside the 252 hospital epidemic caused by adenovirus infection is a common virus, can cause fever, sore throat, respiratory infections, there was no danger, people do not need to panic.

Last night (24) have claimed to be living near the hospital in the 252 users, 38 corps of nearly 600 soldiers were 252 hospital isolation in the hospital! Now panic! Authorities concealed omission! Until the big thing on all night.

Online rumors intensified, Baoding Health Bureau, came forward to clarify the SARS epidemic in the city there is no relevant patients are ordinary flu, no deaths, the hospitals are functioning normally; People come forward to clarify; major forums, micro- Bo, Shantie "rumor", but the Communist authorities always cover up the truth, deception, promises to the people, the more denied to clarify that Internet users more seriously, the more panic.

Some netizens have questioned the authorities ambivalent doubt behind may be involved in the military suppression of the truth, and also said that the rumor is not terrible, horrible thing is that the "government" out of the rumor! Some netizens lashed out at the authorities have failed to learn from the painful experience of the 2003 SARS, so that the instability of social support of the people.

Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News review article pointed out the lie to a person, personality is bound to bankruptcy, a "government" blatant lie is bound to the integrity of sweeping.

These years, the Chinese Communist authorities in many of the issues related to the national economy and deliberately lying, such as the Bureau of Statistics, property prices, inflation data and the personal experience of the people bad days to do.

The article criticized the authorities are facing the overwhelming voices of doubt, the departments concerned not only done nothing wrong, but playing with words to deceive the people, the so-called professional vocabulary.

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From another Weibo account, suggesting ongoing censorship of this on Weibo:

http://s.weibo.com/weibo/%25E9%2580%259F%25E8%25BD%25AC&scope=ori&rd=NDYwO

the network supervisor. Baoding a message that 252 admitted to hospitals SARs variation patients army of martial law in the hospital to remind friends not to go to the epidemic areas, I forwarded the day before yesterday. Can be instantly deleted! malgbd! malgbd! Tamar's what to delete? Why delete? Again:malgbd Just saw the news of the Phoenix subtitles: The Ministry of Health to prove the authenticity of the matter is 55 respiratory disease Again: malgbd delete this microblogging network supervisor!

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It remains the difficulty of a laboratory confirmed identification of a SARS-CoV case because of the lack of a consensus diagnostics test kits.

For more information about SARS-CoV laboratory testing, see the online book by Christian Drosten, M.D. et al. at: http://www.sarsreference.com/sarsref...rd_italian.pdf (available in several languages, English included)

(IOH)