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Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Sichuan earthquake disaster areas in six cities killed livestock and poultry 12340000
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May 18 - According to the Ministry of Agriculture site, according to statistics, as at present, Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan five provinces (municipalities) quake killed livestock and poultry in the affected 13 million (only), city, The county, township veterinary institutions buildings, laboratories damaged area of 548,000 square meters. Sichuan province hardest hit six cities in livestock and poultry deaths 12.34 million, of which 810,000 live pigs.After the disaster, the Ministry of Agriculture respond quickly and adopted a series of positive and effective prevention and control measures.

May 18, the Ministry of Agriculture Minister Zheng Sun before the meeting to relay and study the State Council earthquake relief headquarters spirit of the meeting, the deployment of further study agriculture earthquake relief work. The meeting analyzed the current agricultural disaster situation, the emphasis should zoonotic disease prevention and control as the current most urgent and important work, and effectively implement them well.
After the disaster, the Ministry of Agriculture respond quickly and adopted a series of positive and effective prevention and control measures.

First, timely deployment of a major disaster area zoonotic disease prevention and control work. May 12 earthquake disaster, Zheng Sun Minister of the night before an emergency meeting of the Organization of the earthquake relief work to make arrangements, in particular stressed the need to strengthen zoonotic disease prevention and control of major disaster areas to achieve the "five strengthened, to ensure a ", That is to strengthen the death of livestock and poultry processing sound, and strengthen environmental disinfection, and strengthen disease surveillance, strengthen the immune disaster, strengthening quarantine and supervision, to ensure that no major disaster zoonotic disease, and major animal disease outbreak. Sent by the State Chief Veterinary Officer of the expert group headed to the front line of disaster areas, tracking guide safe disposal and disinfection work out the source. The establishment of people regularly scheduled emergency contact mechanism and timely solutions to the disaster areas facing the practical difficulties and problems. Second, the emergency deployment of disinfecting medicines, equipment and other immunization supplies. Disaster areas in urgent need for disinfection, and other drugs, the establishment of the emergency supplies ahead of supply mechanism. Ensure that they are "required, the number allocated to ensure supply." Has organized more than 40 disinfectants, medical equipment manufacturers, overtime production, the epidemic prevention work to ensure that the needs of the disaster areas.

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Up to now, the Ministry of Agriculture has allocated 383 tons of disinfectants disaster areas, 50 tons of insecticide rodenticides, 13,420 Taiwanese mobile disinfection equipment, 23,750 Taiwan manually operated disinfection, 100 tents. Third, the sound of livestock died in the disaster areas of treatment and disinfection work. Sichuan Provincial veterinary departments in developing disaster areas safe disposal and disinfection work programme implementation. Organized by the Sichuan Agricultural University, Southwest University for Nationalities, Sichuan Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, and other units of the 107 vaccination teams that were dispatched to the Dujiangyan, Sichuan, and other North Mianzhu and the hardest hit, carried out disinfection and safe disposal work. The fourth is to strengthen disease surveillance and epidemiological investigation. The current disaster surrounding areas and disaster monitoring to expand the number of animal survival, to detect and remove hidden dangers epidemic. Infected timely disposal of livestock, livestock products ensure food safety. The timely development of meta-analysis of animal epidemic situation, risk assessment, early warning information released. The fifth is to strengthen disaster epidemic prevention knowledge publicity. Experts prepared an emergency, "the earthquake disaster prevention and control of animal diseases publicity wall charts," "Streptococcus disease prevention and control knowledge Handbook" and "highly pathogenic blue ear pig disease prevention and control wall charts" and other promotional materials sent to the affected areas. China's animal epidemic prevention organizations control center, and other units set up special columns on the Internet, the topic publicity zoonotic disease prevention and control knowledge. Experts also organized the Central People's Broadcasting Station system for earthquake disaster prevention and control of zoonotic disease technical seminars. Sixth, strengthen the sector and regional coordination. Coordination with the Ministry of Health to establish a mechanism to strengthen epidemic prevention information exchange, sharing of disinfecting medicines, medical equipment, such as immunization supplies. Organization of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan provinces surrounding the nearest veterinary sector in helping and supporting mechanism.

The meeting held that the current zoonotic disease prevention and control situation is very grim. Recently the Ministry of Agriculture to strengthen the disaster areas around the zoonotic disease prevention and control, mainly in the following five tasks: First, to carry out disinfection and safe disposal work. Organization of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Henan, Guangdong, Shandong province transferred six professional and technical personnel, the establishment of six reserve, a total of 120 people directly under the Ministry of reserve units set up 130 people, one after another rushed to the disaster areas to safe disposal and the environment Disinfection. The second is to continue to allocate disinfection drug organizations, such as emergency vaccination materials. I once again the Department of preparations for the 1,000 tons of disinfectants, rodenticides 100 tons of insecticide, will be transferred to the disaster areas. The third is to do a better job sudden epidemic emergency preparedness. Organization experts to the affected areas may arise in the epidemic risk analysis, develop contingency plans, to technical, material and personnel ready. Fourth, do a really good job of Animal Epidemic Prevention.

严防疫情发生。

Strengthening immunization, monitoring, safe disposal and disinfection, and prevent the epidemic. Immune do a good job to ensure that immunity density and quality, improve the livestock and poultry immunity. For the disaster areas to change the ecological environment, the proliferation of a number of pathogenic microorganisms, the threat to the health of livestock, effectively enhance disease surveillance. Strengthen the management of vaccination and do a good job Quanshe disinfection, and security equipment, such as birds, control the epidemic spread. Strengthen supervision and quarantine to prevent the dead animal into the market to ensure the safety of animal health products.

五是做好灾区灭鼠工作。

Fifth, do a good job in disaster areas eradication of rats. I organized by the Department of experts developed the "earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan rodent prevention and control programmes", in the Sichuan Provincial Office, and other relevant departments to implement emergency disaster areas and the surrounding areas to monitor and combat rodent measures, such as special arrangements for 5.42 million of emergency funding to ensure that the anti-rat The work carried out smoothly. :tiphat: http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?h...ttp://news.sohu.com/20080518/n256934771.shtml

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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Treyfish · May 19, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Alert: Mianzhu epidemic prevention difficult situation severe water and electricity supply
2008年05月19日19:24 PRC Wenchuan May 18 Xinhua reporter Wang Shujun 16:30 from the disaster back to front-line reports.
Reporters in Mianzhu that, at present, Mianzhu electricity and water supply difficulties. Water supply, electricity is on a special small generators supply.
The water problem is fairly severe. Can drink mineral water to drink, wash your face, and so on the water to use. At present the disaster areas in urgent need of effervescent tablets with some disinfectant, and disinfection liquid.
Under such circumstances, the situation is more severe disease prevention, epidemic prevention staff also quite lacking. Rescue work is still carried out now, but the weather forecast said heavy rain, it rains after the disaster areas of these cases may be more formidable.:tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=zh|en&u=http://news.qq.com/a/20080519/004650.htm

Snowy Owl · May 19, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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Commonground · May 19, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Extremely long article. I will posts snippets.
hat-tip Treyfish

2008-05-19 11:06:39 Source: Nanfang Dushi Bao Author: South-red abalone Xiaodong Lin Jinsong Hongyan Yang Xiaohong Qin Xiao Haikun Zhongyue Dong Chen Liang Yu Wei Wang Wei Jun, Li Yuantao Zhuzhuo

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WHO experts said that the quake occurred after two or three days, the epidemic prevention work should focus on doing a good job. In the disaster areas, due to the lack of manpower, lack of drugs and resettlement conditions in many parts of the immunization situation is very urgent - many orphans and survivors may face an outbreak of infectious disease threats in order to prevent possible epidemic, many parents have been prohibited contact The victims children.

"If you do not buried as soon as possible, there is a hidden danger to endemic infectious diseases, which is a cruel reality, but we must face."

-- CDC Zhu Xiaoping in Sichuan Province, "today sent not the states do not, we have come up with some expired medicines used disinfection."

-- Wenchuan County CDC Director Chen Hong "Now the hot weather, placement, has a lot of patients. Regardless of the epidemic will not happen, but we must think of. Next, vaccination is the biggest problem."

-- First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University Professor Zhang Jian "Once the outbreak of infectious diseases, will soon be transmitted, victims can not be concentrated in one place, the field should be evacuated."
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Sichuan Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Center of acute communicable disease control and prevention Zhu Xiaoping, director of anxious to say: "If we do not buried as soon as possible, there is a hidden danger to endemic diseases", "This is a cruel reality, but we must face" . "To control the 'big disaster the epidemic,' the emergence of a basic principle is that the sooner the body with less harm."
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However, the disasters caused by heavy concentration of deaths, far beyond the conventional capacity. Cremation usually can not do now, and there are many parts of the crematorium Pizhen collapsed.
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CDC deputy director of the county, relief supplies is extremely lacking in the case, unable to protect health, but basically can be done to the deceased's body the first time for disinfection and cremation. Is yet found in the Green River rubella, respiratory infections and diarrhea, dysentery and other intestinal infectious diseases.
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At least 30 electric sprayer in the east of Jiang Jian gathering place. Quarantine officers at the scene began preparing Xiaodu Shui. White powder available chlorine disinfection of more than 50%, vaccination of water from the Jian Jiang modulation syrup. Jian clear turquoise waters and the post-earthquake devastated the county seat of the strong contrast. Involved in fighting the epidemic prevention, deputy master of Henan CDC-Bian Lee said that warming has accelerated the bodies decomposed, the breeding ground for various bacteria, Jian river will be affected, can not drink the water here, nor can be used to wash their hands, but the preparation of disinfection Syrup no big problem, only to increase the concentration of syrup.

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"This situation, the possibility of the epidemic in a very high" number of the Guangdong team of medical experts on the local epidemic prevention is even more worried. They said that the bodies were soaking rain, then the event of high temperatures, very perishable produce germs.
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Town Commissioner of the victims are concentrated in a tarpaulin Dacheng with the tent, a bed attached with a bed, from east to the mouth of the primary escaped 47 orphans, living in tents, poor sanitary conditions. "Once the outbreak of infectious diseases, will soon be transmitted" from the Nanchang University Fuyuan the first medical team captain Zhang Jian said. "Victims can not be concentrated in one place, the field should be evacuated."

However, the evacuation of victims has not been officially launched, the situation in the affected disaster areas of the township is not very clear, many township also lost contact with the outside world in the state, and take a few days and nights Zouchudashan the villagers continue to be concentrated in the county and centres Cities, but on the local conditions are very poor. Mianyang City Sports Centre on the Jiuzhou 20,000 people per square meter on average one out of people, victims were Xideerwo, although the Government has made the greatest efforts, but the vaccination situation is not optimistic.
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In a very long time, the epidemic prevention work can not be relaxed. In addition, the emergency post-disaster disease surveillance system to be immediately established. To the timely discovery by monitoring health and other public health problems symptoms of a timely response to avoid harm to expand. Public health professionals have to go to a disaster area, every town, street ongoing health assessment of water, to assess the health situation, assess the health needs of victims and medical needs, to organize effective health relief.

As the World Health Organization representative in China, Dr. Han Zhuosheng said, the quake occurred after the 2-3 days, the most urgent thing is to search for survivors and treat the injured, in the ensuing days or weeks, the focus should be to prevent Outbreak of infectious diseases.

Immunization is a protracted war after the earthquake.

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Snowy Owl · May 19, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Credit to Muscade from the French Forum

Posted at 6:25am on 20 May 2008

Thousands of people in the Chinese city of Chengdu rushed out into the city streets early on Tuesday after a television station predicted another earthquake.

China is currently observing three days of national mourning a week after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed nearly 34,000 people. There have been hundreds of aftershocks since last Monday.

Provincial television and radio reported that a 8-magnitude earthquake would strike Sichuan province overnight, and tremors registering 6 on the Richter scale would shake Chengdu.

A large aftershock shook Chengdu on Saturday night. Three people were killed and another 1,000 others injured in Sichuan province.

Meanwhile, the Transport Ministry reports that more than 200 relief workers have been buried by mudflows over the past two days.

Donations from home and overseas have topped $US858 million.

Copyright ? 2008 Radio New Zealand

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Experts deep concern a small number of residents in the disaster areas Wenying raging diarrhoea

2008年05月20日05:40

CDC immunization expert in-depth city Wenchuan County, including more than 20 residents gathered at schools and institutions insecticidal disinfection units, at the same time drinking water, food and other epidemiological investigation. Experts found that many settlements flies, mosquitoes Man Tianfei, no one dealing with the trash, while a small number of residents in the phenomenon of diarrhea, epidemic prevention situation is not optimistic. Immunization experts said the earthquake disaster urgent need attention to disinfection, insecticide, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.Live flies point in time are Gan Buzou
18, Wenchuan County government official told immunization experts, a total of 14 townships in Wenchuan County, but only five townships in the current epidemic prevention work, and the remaining nine townships due to impassable roads, are unable to reach, a local health and epidemic prevention work "Top priority."
On the 19th afternoon, Shanghai's disease prevention experts, sources said soldiers were to reach the city of Wenchuan County residents gathered at the school and organs and units, immediately started epidemiological investigation and disinfected pest control work.
Granville Bridge in the state next to a Jiexin Gardens residents gathered, the tents are temporary structures in the bushes, grass is everywhere in the stool, many residents that they have appeared in diarrhea, stop the medication before. Sitting on the roadside a volunteer, said: "Here are Ganbu Zou time flies."
"Residents gathered at the immunization situation is not optimistic." Epidemic prevention experts Caien-mao told reporters, although learned from the visit, the majority of settlements set up health posts, drinking water and more water is, most of the residents also know how to use disinfected water purification tablets, but Residents gathered at the garbage piling up everywhere, sewage treatment has not timely, four cross-flow, it is easy to cause mosquitoes to breed, and the mosquito is a major infectious diseases, "assistant." In addition, ordinary Aedes albopictus (commonly known as "flower pin bucks") will spread the disease.
Daily average of 5,000 people in 30 diarrhea
19 evening, the Wenchuan County in the city of Mangwan disinfection pest control work, the Shanghai epidemic prevention experts also rushed to the county town about six kilometers from the seven ditch. This reporter has learned that immunization experts here have not settled, factories, the primary place of residence had not been disinfected, pest control, residents gather a lot of death has been formed ditch, and sent again and stench. In a residential area, if the existence of death Shui Tan, an outbreak of mosquito-group very easily lead to disease. It is understood that local residents in the 5000 daily average of 30 residents of diarrhea, because many people are directly caused by consumption of cold water.
Shanghai vaccination expert said: "Once Wenchuan other township roads opened, the first time vaccination teams sent to help victims in good health and epidemic prevention work." :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=zh|en&u=http://news.qq.com/a/20080520/000491.htm

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Concerns growing over quake-related disease in China

Masaru Kawanishi and Yoshiaki Takeuchi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
OSAKA--Emergency disaster-relief teams to be sent by the government to areas hit by the earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, are expected to have to treat people with life-threatening illnesses and conditions such as pneumonia and strokes, which often occur in the harsh living conditions that follow major earthquakes.
Kobe University and other organizations considering sending medical relief teams to China are also making preparations to improve sanitation and provide mental health care under the severe conditions.
Shortages of toilets, water and food are serious problems at evacuation centers, which are so overwhelmed they cannot shelter all the victims.
"The number of patients suffering from infectious diseases usually increases from the second and third days after a disaster due to water shortages, malnutrition and harsh living conditions," said Shigeki Asahi, director of emergency operations at the International Medical Center of Japan's Kohnodai Hospital in Chiba Prefecture.
The diseases that cause the greatest concern are respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia.
Pneumonia was the most common condition among those hospitalized after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
A peak in pneumonia patients occurred a week after the Hanshin disaster because elderly people and other evacuees living communally in poor conditions became less able to resist disease.
Incidences of cerebral vascular disease and ischemic heart disease were higher in areas that suffered the greatest damage, indicating that mental and physical exhaustion caused by drastic changes in living environments were causes of the diseases.
Kazuhiko Moji, a professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, said outbreaks of diarrhea and colds at evacuation centers are a concern. "Poor hygiene makes it worse. To prevent this, toilets should be cleaned and there should be no dumping of human waste nearby," said Moji, who surveyed the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Kobe University Hospital is preparing to dispatch a medical team. A hospital official said: "It seems we've already missed the period for acute treatment, but medical treatments in fields such as public hygiene and mental health care are still necessary. We'd like to contribute the knowledge and experience in emergency medical treatment we obtained through our activities in the Great Hanshin Earthquake and disaster sites in other countries."
(May. 20, 2008):tiphat: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080520TDY03105.htm

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Truckloads of China's dead seek final resting place

GEOFFREY YORK
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
May 19, 2008 at 7:50 PM EDT

MIANZHU, CHINA ? With more than 50,000 dead, there is little time for niceties in the disposal of the victims of China's massive earthquake.
At the Mianzhu funeral home, bloated corpses in body bags are sprayed with disinfectant and tossed into a truck like sacks of potatoes. The employees are doing their best to be respectful, but they are overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the disaster.
All around the earthquake zone, mortuaries are so overcrowded that the dead are often trucked more than 200 kilometres away. In a few cases, soldiers have dug mass graves to dispose of decaying bodies, for fear that they could spread disease if not buried quickly.
The catastrophe has reached such magnitude that it is exhausting the guardians of the dead. ?We urgently need more charcoal-filter masks, rubber gloves and disinfecting fluids,? says Yang Honggang, director of the Mianzhu funeral home, on the outskirts of one of the worst-hit cities.

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?The bodies have decayed so badly that it's hard to lift them up to wrap them, and the smell is very strong,? he said.
Mr. Yang was forced to suspend all cremations at his funeral home because the earthquake shattered his tall brick chimney and knocked out his electricity and water supply. ?We urgently need a crane to fix the chimney, but all the cranes were sent to the front,? he said.
Unable to cremate the bodies, all he can do is disinfect them, collect them and send them on to another funeral home, hundreds of kilometres away.
When the latest truckload of bodies is ready to be sent off, an employee lists the contents. ?There are 18 bodies, including four unidentified bodies and one left foot,? she reports to her colleagues.
Rescue workers have taken DNA samples from the nameless bodies and body parts, in the hopes of identifying them later. But the funeral homes can scarcely cope with the deluge of bodies.
At a funeral home near the quake-hit city of Deyang, as many as 110 bodies a day are being processed ? almost 10 times the normal number ? and the crematorium is working 24 hours a day to burn them.
?Some people have lost almost everything, so we waive our normal fees for transportation and cremation, and we give them a free urn for the ashes,? said Ren Shigao, the home's director.
?We have 70 staff working in shifts, around the clock, seven days a week. But we urgently need more disinfectant, charcoal-filter masks, rubber gloves and rubber gowns. They're almost all gone, and we have nowhere to buy any more, because everything has been donated to the front. We received some supplies from the government, but it's far from enough.?
China Monday began a three-day official mourning period for the victims of the earthquake. All over the country, people stood at attention for three minutes of silence at 2:28 p.m., exactly one week after the quake hit. Air-raid sirens wailed, motorists blared their horns and flags were lowered to half-mast.
On an Air China passenger jet waiting for departure at Chengdu airport, the crew asked the passengers to rise to their feet in the aisles at 2:28. The passengers bowed their heads for three minutes. Then, in an emotional voice on the public address system, a crew member declared: ?After the storm, we will see the rainbow. ? Pray for the Chinese people and pray for China.?
The official mourning period is being so strictly enforced that cinemas have gone dark for three days, music has been prohibited at bars, karaoke clubs have been temporarily closed and entertainment shows on television have been cancelled. The entertainment and game portions of all Chinese websites have been shut down, and the Olympic torch relay has been suspended for three days.
It is the first official mourning period in China since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
The Chinese government has said that it expects the earthquake death toll to climb beyond 50,000. On Monday the official death toll reached more than 34,000. But in Sichuan province, a provincial leader said the toll did not include more than 9,500 people who are still buried in the rubble and a further 29,400 who are missing. This suggested that the final death toll could reach 73,000 or more. More than 245,000 have been injured, while a further 4.8 million have been left homeless.
Among the dead are 158 relief workers who were buried over the past three days as they tried to repair roads in remote parts of the quake-hit region.:tiphat: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080519.wchina20/BNStory/International/home

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>An aftershock of six to seven on the Richter scale was likely to happen in the Wenchuan earthquake area in southwest China's Sichuan Province, said local seismological bureau.

The Sichuan Seismological Bureau said there was a bigger possibility of the aftershock between Monday and Tuesday, warning local government and people to be prepared for emergencies:tiphat: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6414076.html

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Sichuan earthquake-stricken dog bites authorities issued rabies alert

<SMALL> May 20, 2008 </SMALL>  Source: BCC News
Sichuan Province in the earthquake, the worst-hit Sichuan Province in the high temperature and heavy rainfall, the disaster areas facing a serious test of vaccination. Since the disaster areas also appear everywhere Luanyao the dog, authorities worried about the spread of rabies, has issued "rabies alert." South Korea, "Yonhap News Agency," the news today from Chengdu, in the earthquake-stricken area, there are a number of attacks of dogs, bites everywhere, but the rabies vaccine has not yet delivered to the ground. Several hospitals in Chengdu, Jin Liangtian Beigouyaoshang treatment of a large number of patients, many worry that these people infected with rabies:tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h....com/news/gb/china/2008/05/200805200419.shtml

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Sichuan earthquake: The partial disaster victims skin sensibility stomach flows swiftly
2008-05-19 16:55

[on.cc special news]Yesterday, rushed to rescue the Sichuan Mianzhu's 3 Guangzhou ambulance from Guangzhou, carried the medical expert to volunteer the service team, delivered the medicine for the disaster victims to deliver the medicine. The medical expert said burning with impatience that at present were majority of the disaster victims to have the skin sensibility, 皰 symptoms and so on measles, having diarrhea, these have the epidemic situation indication, must complete 衞 lives the guard. Because the weather is burning hot, on the disaster victims body the wound cannot obtain the immediate cure, many wounds had inflamed, symptoms and so on suppuration. 絕 the majority children, on the body were mostly long had the red lump, presented a more serious skin rash, the chicken pox. Zhongshan University attached two courtyard deputy chief physician Liu Jianping pointed out that after the disaster, collapses in the house dust includes the massive 蟎 insects, scatters in airborne. Under the high temperature weather, the microorganism is easier under the adverse circumstance to multiply the reproduction, because the disaster victims resistivity drops, very easy to form two infections. At present what most lacks is anti-蟎 drugs and so on insect, anti-allergy, anti-fungus.:tiphat: http://svsurl.systransoft.com/?t=ou...=11d1def534ea1be0--4482064e-119fe7a2513--1419

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Sichuan earthquake: The disaster area momentarily erupts plague
2008-05-19 13:12

[on.cc special news]The victimized persons Deyang present victim corpse and the animal corpse bury not 夠 deeply, at present has exposed the ground massively, momentarily initiates plague. Some rescue groups disclosed that People's Liberation Army health is threaten, protects the clothes urgently needed.:tiphat: http://svsurl.systransoft.com/?t=ou...=11d1def534ea1be0--4482064e-119fe7a2513--13fb

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Sichuan earthquake: The disaster area presents the unclear skin disease
2008-05-19 16:59

[on.cc special news]Front the medical member sends back the information to disclose that at present disaster area main disease is flesh wound diseases and so on merge infection, diarrhea, cold, some areas presented the popular skin disease, at present is unable to diagnose, can only process just right for the illness temporarily.:tiphat:
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Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Sichuan earthquake: Nearly 3,000,000 death poultry by detoxification processing
2008-05-19 07:01

[on.cc special news]The Ministry of Agriculture personnel indicated on Sunday that Sichuan, Chongqing, Shanxi, Gansu, Yunnan 5 provinces (city) altogether has 1,300 ten thousand poultry disaster death, the disaster area human and animals disease prevention and control situation is very stern, guards against the personnel to detoxificate at present processes 2,780,700 death poultry, the disinfection area has 9,565,100 square meters. The Ministry of Agriculture personnel continue refer to, to prevent the human and animals altogether to be sick effectively and so on secondary disasters to occur, Ministry of Agriculture and the Sichuan veterinarian department has organized 4 guard squads, leaves for different destinations Beichuan, Dujiang weirs, Pengzhou, Mianzhu and so on zhongzai the area, launches the detoxification to process and to disinfect the work. But Ministry of Agriculture also established the critical materials to supply the mechanism in advance, the disaster area has attained instigates 383 tons disinfectants, 50 ton insect disinfestation rodenticideses, 13,420 mobile disinfection instruments, 23,750 manual -like disinfestors, as well as 100 tents.
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Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Televised warning about new aftershocks sparks panic in China earthquake zone

The Associated Press
Published: May 20, 2008

CHENGDU, China: A government warning of a major aftershock sent thousands of panicked survivors running into the darkened streets overnight following an unprecedented display of mourning for more than 34,000 people killed in a powerful earthquake one week ago.
In shattered Sichuan province, quake-weary residents carried pillows, blankets and chairs from homes into the open or slept in cars Monday night after a statement from the National Seismology Bureau was read on television warning that there was a "rather great" chance of an aftershock measuring magnitude 6 to 7. Such jolts could cause major damage.
People in the provincial capital of Chengdu got in their cars and drove east ? toward plains and away from the quake zone to the northwest. At intersections outside the city, clusters of people slept on bedrolls. Cars were parked along a service road to a highway, their drivers sleeping on the sidewalk.
In Mianyang, closer to the quake zone, a hospital moved patients into the square outside the rail station, setting up beds, medicine trays and tents.
The alarm compounded uneasiness in the region, which has been rumbled by dozens of aftershocks since the May 12 quake, including one on Monday night measured at magnitude 5.2 by the U.S. Geological Survey. No damage or injuries were reported.
It came a few hours after China's more than 1 billion people paused for three minutes of mourning ? an observance that previously only honored the death of a top Chinese leader.
At 2:28 p.m., the moment the quake hit, wailing air-raid sirens and the blare of horns from cars, ships and trains signaled the start of the commemoration.
From the broad boulevards of Beijing to the shaken streets of Sichuan province, everyone stood still. Traffic halted in cities, soldiers stood at attention, and people bowed their heads in respect for the dead.
President Hu Jintao led senior government figures in a solemn ceremony televised nationally. Rescuers also briefly halted work in the disaster zone, where hope of finding more survivors was all but gone.
The Olympic torch relay, a potent symbol of national pride in the countdown to the Beijing Games, was suspended.
China's Cabinet said the confirmed death toll rose to 34,073, although it is expected to climb. Another 5,260 remained buried in Sichuan, the provincial government said. Almost 250,000 are injured.
The three-minute commemoration ? part of an official three days of mourning ? gave the government a chance to recognize and channel the grief of millions who have watched the disaster play out in unusually free coverage by state media.
Yin Pu, a Beijing psychologist, said the depth of feeling that people expressed Monday was a surprise.
"The only thing that was planned was the time, we could not have imagined that it would be so powerful," said Yin, who is recruiting volunteer counselors to send to the quake zone.
But there were already signs that the unity would be shortlived.
In Xiushui, one of scores of mountain villages in Sichuan province that were cut off for days in the days immediately after the quake, residents were grateful they now had water, food and other supplies. But they complained the response was slow and blamed local officials whom they described as corrupt and indifferent ? a common complaint in rural China that has fueled sporadic protests in the past decade.
"During the first three days after the quake, the local government gave us nothing. No water or food," said Yu Jun, a 44-year-old farmer living in a roadside tent. "In the first few days, we had to get our cooking water from an irrigation ditch. You could see little bugs wiggling around in the water. You would get sick if you drank it."
There were other signs of edginess.
In a gymnasium in Mianyang, east of Xiushui, refugees panicked Sunday when health workers arrived wearing masks, setting off fears of an epidemic. Police were sent in to keep tensions from boiling over.
In a sign the government is sensitive to public perceptions of its response to the disaster, the ruling Communist Party's discipline committee said it had reprimanded three local officials in the quake zone for dereliction of duty, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The party had instructed its officials to stand "at the front line" of the disaster and these three had failed to do so, Xinhua said.:tiphat: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/20/asia/AS-GEN-China-Earthquake.php

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

The hardest hit on the Green River killing of dogs throughout the county epidemic prevention
2008年05月20日06:39
.. from May 18, the hardest hit Qingchuan Xian will use the 13 days time, the county focus on hunting dogs, to prevent the epidemic. Yesterday, reporters from the Qing Chuanxian earthquake relief headquarters was informed that this action by the Qing Chuanxian Public Security Bureau, the township party committee and government responsible for public security departments will be the township police station as the main organization set up militia killing teams hunting, disease control epidemic prevention departments will Co-ordination. The time to focus on killing of 18 to 30 May, the local government requirements: Shajin should kill, kill after disinfection buried to prevent epidemic diseases.

The county headquarters, "5 12 earthquake" after the Qing Chuanxian most dogs no one keeping their four stray, easy and people Zheng Shi, Luanla chaos row, pollute the environment, bites wounding and endangering the masses Security, infectious diseases. To this end, the headquarters decided to concentrate time and concentrate manpower to focus on dog hunting.

According to media reports, in recent days, the epicenter of several Wenchuan County township, because of the wounded dog bites have increased. However, there is no Wenchuan County hunting dogs on the report. :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=zh|en&u=http://news.qq.com/a/20080520/000603.htm

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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As of May 18, the sixth day after the earthquake, more and more earthquake victims have diarrhea, they're catching colds and getting bitten by dogs in Wenchuan County. Fortunately, everyone may receive treatment in various field hospitals set up by Army Hospital relief workers. Disease prevention teams have been sent to the quake-hit areas from the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Sichuan CDC).

Mad dogs bite people

The inner side of Liu Guijun's knee was injured due to a dog bite. He received treatment in a field hospital set up by the Beijing Army General Hospital.

On the morning of May 14, when Liu Guijun finished his porridge in a tent with another villager, a black and yellow dog rushed up to him and bit him randomly. Because he was busy doing reconstruction work, Liu didn't think he had been seriously injured so he did not seek any treatment until May 18.

On May 17 medical staff of the Hainan Frontier Garrison Hospital for the Armed Police said that they had treated many victims bitten by dogs after they arrived at Longchi Town, Dujiangyan on May 14. Due to limited medical supplies they could only clean the victims' wounds.

Doctor Li Yunjun, working for Beijing Army General Hospital, cleaned Liu Guijun's wound but lacked any rabies vaccine on May 18. He advised Liu to go to Dujiangyan to get the rabies vaccine as quickly as possible. Doctor Li explained that a dog becomes more aggressive after losing his master and/or experiencing an earthquake. He also suggested that victims carry sticks to ward off vicious dogs.

Unclean drinking water results in diarrhea

Many field hospitals set up by the Beijing Army General Hospital and the Hainan Frontier Garrison Hospital for the Armed Police have treated several hundred patients with cold symptoms and diarrhea as of the afternoon of May 18.

Ms Li from Wayao village, Xuankou Town did not have any medicine to combat her sore throat for six days; afterwards she received treatment in a newly established field hospital. Another six-year-old boy from the same village had almost endless diarrhea until treated. Many similar illnesses are prevalent in this town, Beijing News reported on May 18.

According to the Beijing Army General Hospital, their field hospital treated 200 patients on May 17, of whom over 30 percent suffer from colds and diarrhea, caused, according to medical personnel, by unclean water. Disease prevention staff from Chengdu repeatedly sprayed disinfectant around living quarters, toilets and throughways. A staff member from the Chengdu Wuhou district CDC who is working in a living area in Xuankou Town said disaster area's disease prevention work has been effective because no cases of plague have materialized to date.

The same situation exists in some towns around Qingchuan County, according to a China News Service report; Increasingly people are getting diarrhea and catching colds. Because of the earthquake, water sources may be contaminated. Water purification efforts have not been totally effective under current conditions.

Currently, disease prevention is the top priority for all medical staff. More sanitation and disinfectant campaigns are needed.

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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Sichuan earthquake - Operations update no.3

China: Sichuan
Earthquake
Emergency appeal n° MDRCN003
GLIDE
n° EQ-2008-000062-CHN

Operations update n° 3
19 May 2008
Period covered by this Update:

96 hours after the launch of appeal.

Appeal target (current):

CHF 20,076,412 (USD 19,304,242 or EUR 12,431,215);

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Appeal coverage:

There has been a very generous and quick response to this appeal, and in the four days
since it was launched, many pledges of funding have been received, and the initial appeal target is already
covered. The appeal will be revised, after further assessments have taken place and a plan of action for
International Federation support to the Red Cross Society of China’s operations is established.

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Appeal history:

•

This Emergency Appeal was launched on 15 May 2008 for CHF 20,076,412 (USD 19.3 million or
EUR 12.4 million) for 12 months to assist 100,000 beneficiaries.

•

Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): CHF 250,000 was allocated from the International
Federation’s DREF to support the Red Cross Society of China’s response to the earthquake.

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RCSC medical teams and volunteers have been working round the clock treating the
wounded (International Federation).

Summary:

As of 18 May, the death toll from the massive earthquake which struck the south-western province
of Sichuan has risen to a total of 32,476 and 220,109 injured, according to the emergency response office
under the State Council. Of this figure, 32,173 deaths occurred in Sichuan alone with the rest in seven other
provinces and municipalities - Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei. On 18 May,
as many as 5,210 aftershocks were recorded in Sichuan. So far, 209,905 people have been injured in Sichuan,
with an estimated 10,000 still buried under the rubble. Some 15.7 million rooms have been damaged and 312
million others have collapsed. The earthquake has left over 4.8 million people homeless.
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) headquarters, along with its Sichuan branch and many other
provincial branches of RCSC, have been providing non-stop assistance to those in the affected areas. By 18
May, RCSC headquarters had mobilized six medical teams, over 200 staff from other provinces and 31
rescue and relief teams from other Red Cross branches to Sichuan. The Sichuan Red Cross branch has
dispatched 17 medical teams to Pengzhou, Beichuan, Dujiangyan, Anxian, Mianzhu, Shifang and Pingwu to
treat over 2,000 seriously injured people. The Sichuan Red Cross branch also sent 33 Red Cross first aid
teams to provide assistance to over 7,500 people. Altogether over 35,000 Red Cross staff and volunteers are
assisting in the relief effort.
As of 18 May, the RCSC headquarters and its branches have received more than USD500 million in
donations, internationally and nationally fundraised, in cash and in-kind. Some CNY 400 million (CHF 60
million) has so far been spent by the RCSC on emergency relief items in the disaster-affected areas. In
Sichuan, over 800,000 survivors have received relief items from the Red Cross. Over 200 Red Cross trucks
transport relief items on a daily basis and over 500 Red Cross volunteers are involved in providing logistics
support and psychosocial counselling.

The International Federation set up an earthquake coordination office in Sichuan province on 18 May. The
International Federation will provide emergency support to the RCSC relief operations in Mianyang
prefecture, one of the most affected prefectures. Tents, quilts, winter clothing, kitchen sets and other relief
items are being sent by the International Federation to Mianyang.
Many partner national societies have made contributions to the appeal: American Red Cross, British Red
Cross, Canadian Red Cross / Canadian government, Netherlands Red Cross, New Zealand Red Cross,
United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Society, with other contributions in the pipeline, including those from
Belgian Red Cross / Belgian government, German Red Cross / German government and Japanese Red
Cross / Japanese government, The International Federation, on behalf of the Red Cross Society of China,

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would like to thank all partners for their very quick and generous response to this appeal.

The situation

As of 18 May, the death toll from the powerful earthquake which hit southwest China's Sichuan province
has risen to 32,173, with 209,905 injured in that province alone, according to the information office of the
state council. The 7.8 Richter scale earthquake of 12 May has caused 4.8 million people to be displaced in
eight affected provinces and municipalities including Sichuan (the province most severely affected), Gansu,
Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei, according to the emergency response office of
the State Council.
Located in the north-west of Sichuan province, the Mianyang municipality is a traffic link, 90 kilometres from
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. The total area of Mianyang municipality is 20,249 kilometres

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with a population of 5,170,141 people. The distance between Wenchuan (the epicentre) and Mianyang seat
is approximately 170 kilometres. Beichuan, Pingwu, Anxian and Jiangyou are the four most damaged
counties in Mianyang, with Beichuan at 60 kilometres from Wenchuan. By 18 May, the confirmed death toll
in Beichuan and Pingwu was 8,410 and 1,200 respectively. A total of 12,149 confirmed deaths and 68,100
injured have been reported in Mianyang.
Altogether 38 medical teams and 2,076 doctors, specializing in various fields such as disease control, are
currently working in Mianyang. Apart from areas which are inaccessible, all four of the most affected
counties have medical teams on the ground.
In Mianyang, around 200,000 displaced people have been sheltered in nearly 100 emergency camps. Out of
this number, 50,000 people are sheltered in two big municipal sports centres in Jiuzhou and Nanhe. The other
150,000 people are located in emergency shelter camps in Anixan and Pingwu counties. The number of
people in each camp varies from ten to 20,000.
The World Health Organization warned the shortages of clean water and warmer humid weather in Sichuan
province were ripe for epidemics. It urged officials not to be distracted by the false belief that corpses were a
health threat. Experts say that while dead bodies left in the open after a disaster can cause distress, they pose
little health risk because the micro-organisms responsible for decomposition cannot cause disease and other
germs in the body die quickly.

Jiuzhou sport centre is providing shelter for over 20,000 people who have lost their homes,

On 19 May, flags flew at half-mast, all public entertainment was cancelled and 1.3 billion people were asked to
observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning for those who died in the
massive earthquake. Officials asked that the horns of cars, trains, ships and air raid sirens be sounded as
people fall silent at 14:28 (0628 GMT) exactly one week after the earthquake devastated thousands of buildings
and killed an estimated 50,000 people. The Olympic torch relay, a potent symbol of national pride in the
countdown to August's much anticipated Beijing games, was also suspended during the mourning period. Trade
on China's stock and commodities exchanges will be suspended for the three-minute period of silence. China's
National Grand Theatre will cancel or postpone all performances during the three days. The mourning period
begins as hope of finding more trapped survivors dwindles and preventing hunger and disease among the
millions displaced becomes more pressing.
Latest news reports that up to 200 relief workers engaged in the emergency relief in different counties have
been buried as a result of mudslides. Information on the exact numbers in each location has yet to be received.
Two construction machines and six vehicles were also buried in the mud.

Relief

According to a Mianyang relief official, there is enough food and bottled drinking water at this stage with in-kind
donations from every source. Rice, wheat powder and oil are needed while the sheer number of displaced
people means that tents, quilts, winter clothing (as the most affected areas are mainly located in the mountains
where temperatures can vary greatly between day and night) and kitchen sets are in need. Medicines, materials
and equipment for epidemic control are becoming more and more urgent. Water sanitation equipment and
hygiene kits are also needed. Mianyang Airport is functioning properly now and can provide facilities for the
relief efforts.

Essential medical services and first aid

Along with damaged and collapsed schools, the impact of the earthquake on the local health system has
been devastating. In Beichuan, one of the most affected counties in Mianyang prefecture, not a single
health facility survived the earthquake. At the same time, in addition to attending to the usual cases of
chronic conditions, the health system has to now provide services to 209,905 injured people and 4.8 million
displaced people. The various health risks are aggravated by poor sanitary conditions, poor nutrition, the
drop in night temperature and the lack of shelter and clothing.
In response to this situation, the government has taken active measures in filling these gaps. It is reported
that over 100 medical teams, staffed by 34,000 doctors, nurses and disease prevention staff are operating
in these areas. These teams are supporting the few relatively functioning and overstretched hospitals
and/or are setting up on-site health and first aid posts. The government is also arranging the transportation
of patients to higher-level health facilities in other neighbouring provinces. Some 485 ambulances have
been deployed for this purpose alone. In Mianyang prefecture, 2,000 patients are in need of transportation
to Chongqing (300 kilometres from the earthquake’s epicentre). Attending to the health needs is
monumental. Due to difficulties in accessing
some areas, it is unclear at this stage what the
total available health service capacity is at for
now. Some gaps remain especially at
secondary-level of care.

Water and sanitation

Those working in the affected areas face a huge
task in providing safe water and sanitation for
the large number of displaced people. Those
displaced have access to donated bottled water,
but based on limited field observations, there
seems to be limited access to water and
sanitation facilities. In a camp of over 30,000
people in Mianyang prefecture, only 150 toilets
are available, resulting in long queues of up to
20 minutes. No shower facilities were available.
Under these conditions, the threat of an

outbreak of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections remains high. The government is in the process of
building mass pit latrines and water points in temporary camps and the situation is likely to improve soon. It
also has started spraying chlorinated lime to improve the environmental hygiene.

Red Cross and Red Crescent action

Overview

The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) headquarters, along with its Sichuan branch and many other
provincial branches of RCSC, have been providing non-stop assistance to those in the affected areas. By
18 May, RCSC headquarters had mobilized six medical teams, over 200 staff from other provinces and
31 rescue and relief teams from other Red Cross branches to Sichuan. Sichuan Red Cross branch has
dispatched 17 medical teams to Pengzhou, Beichuan, Dujiangyan, Anxian, Mianzhu, Shifang and Pingwu
and to treat over 2,000 seriously injured people. Sichuan Red Cross branch also sent 33 Red Cross first
aid teams to provide assistance to over 7,500 people.
The Hong Kong Red Cross branch sent medical teams to Beichuan and donated CNY 139 million (CHF20.9
million) in in-kind donations. The Taiwan Red Cross Organization sent rescue teams to Mianyang and also
donated USD 426,900 (CHF 447,460) in in-kind donations.
Other bilateral support from within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement directly to RCSC includes
contributions from Cambodian Red Cross, Republic of Korea Red Cross, Norwegian Red Cross, Pakistan
Red Crescent, Spanish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross, Thai Red Cross and Turkish Red Crescent.
With over 4.8 million people displaced, there is also the critical need for tents. The Chinese government
donated 190,000 tents to Myanmar after cyclone Nargis hit, therefore depleting stocks in China. The
International Federation plans to mobilize tents from stocks held within the Asia Pacific zone.

The International Federation is currently in discussions with the RCSC with regard to possible future
international assistance, in particular in response to health needs. German Red Cross in coordination with
the RCSC is sending resources to support medical activities.
The International Federation’s regional office in Beijing has been strengthened, with the International
Federation representative in Mongolia and a member of the Asia Pacific Zone planning monitoring
evaluation and reporting unit both joining the team in Beijing. A logistics delegate from the International
Federation’s Pakistan country office is also being deployed to China.
The RCSC, with the support of the ICRC, also seeks to restore family links and provide tracing services to
the affected people. A team is to leave Beijing on Monday, 19 May to the affected areas to conduct
assessments and focus on sending news to family members.

Coordination and partnerships

The Chinese government, through its ministry of foreign affairs is taking the lead in coordination of all
international organizations responding to this earthquake. Regular consultations are being held between the
government and the office of the UN resident coordinator in China.
The RCSC and the International Federation’s team has been approached by numerous international
organizations, embassies of foreign governments in China and individuals offering their support in kind, in
cash, of personnel, specialized medical teams and volunteers. For the purpose of effective coordination and
information sharing, the International Federation’s team together with the RCSC has been in regular
communications with these agencies through phone calls, e-mails and information sharing meetings.
On 17 May, the International Federation’s earthquake coordination office took part in an information sharing
meeting in Chengdu with other international non-governmental organizations currently involved in the
earthquake relief in Sichuan. Action Aid China is working on a ten-day relief operation, focusing on local
communities. It plans to provide psychosocial support to local communities in Mianzhu, in Deyang and
Pingwu, and in Mianyang, with a focus on the needs of children and women in emergency relief. Medicins
Sans Frontières conducted an assessment of a damaged hospital in Deyang, and will send medical support
through its national and international medical staff within the next two weeks. The local Red Cross is a
partner of Medicins Sans Frontières.

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Communications – Advocacy and Public Information

The International Federation’s regional office in East Asia is working in partnership with the RCSC’s media
department to raise media attention and public awareness about the RCSC’s response to the earthquake.
Currently, a media specialist has joined the regional office’s earthquake operation office in Sichuan to
provide timely and accurate information to the public and the media and carry out interviews with
international media. Two local consultants have been hired to assist with camera and photography in
documenting relief activities to support fundraising and public awareness campaigns for three days. The
latest updates, including stories, photos, and press releases, are being posted on

www.ifrc.org daily.

How we work
All International Federation assistance seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct for the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) in Disaster Relief and is committed to the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum
Standards in Disaster Response (Sphere) in delivering assistance to the most vulnerable.

The International Federation’s
activities are aligned with its Global
Agenda, which sets out four broad
goals to meet the Federation's
mission to "improve the lives of
vulnerable people by mobilizing the
power of humanity".

Global Agenda Goals:

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Reduce the numbers of deaths, injuries and impact from
disasters.

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Reduce the number of deaths, illnesses and impact from
diseases and public health emergencies.

•

Increase local community, civil society and Red Cross Red
Crescent capacity to address the most urgent situations of
vulnerability.

•

Reduce intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion
and promote respect for diversity and human dignity.

Contact information
For further information specifically related to this operation please contact:

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Red Cross Society of China: Mr. Wang Xiaohua, director of external relations department; email:

rcsc@chineseredcross.org

; phone: +86.10.6404.8366, fax +86.10.6402.9928.

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East Asia regional office in China: Mr. Carl Naucler, (head of regional office), email;

carl.naucler@ifrc.org

; and Mr. Qinghui Gu (regional disaster management coordinator), email;
qinghui.gu@ifrc.org; phone +86 1391 0959 834, fax+86-10-6532-7166.

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Federation zone office in Kuala Lumpur:

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Alistair Henley, head of zone office, phone: +6012 203 8254, email: alistair.henley@ifrc.org,

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Amy Gaver, acting head of disaster management unit, phone: + 60 3 9207 5700, fax: +60 3
2161 0670, mobile +60 12 220 1174, email: amy.gaver@ifrc.org

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For pledges of funding: Penny Elghady, resource mobilization and PMER coordinator,
phone: +603 9207 5775, email: penny.elghady@ifrc.org

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Jeremy Francis, regional logistics coordinator, phone: +60 12 298 9752, fax: +60 3 2168
8573, email: jeremy.francis@ifrc.org

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Federation secretariat in Geneva: Christine South, operations coordinator Asia Pacific, phone:
+41 22 730 4529; mobile: +41 79 308 9824; email: christine.south@ifrc.org

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EMERGENCY APPEAL

Annex 1

CHINA: SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE MDRCN003

Unit

ORIGINAL
RELIEF NEEDS

500

Shelter 3,000 pcs 6 30,000 3%
505 Construction Materials 1,000 5 ,000,000 25%
510 Clothing & Textiles 200,000 pcs 4 ,000,000 20%
520 Food 100,000 bxs 5 ,000,000 25%
530 Water & Sanitation 2,000 bxs 2 85,000 1%
540 Medical & First Aid 10 teams 7 40,000 4%
560 Utensils & Tools 33,000 set 8 25,000 4%

Total Relief Needs 1 6,480,000
82%

CAPITAL EQUIPMENT

581

Vehicles Purchase 2 9 0,000 0%
582 Computers & Telecom Equipment 6 3 0,000 0%

TRANSPORT, STORAGE & VEHICLES

590

Storage - Warehouse -

592

Distribution & Monitoring 2 2 00,000 1%
593 Transport & Vehicles Costs 2 1 00,000 0%

PERSONNEL

600

International Staff 24 months 3 16,800 2%
640 Regionally Deployed Staff

661

National Staff 2 person;1yr 7 2,000 0%
662 National Society Staff 8 person;1yr 4 8,000 0%
670 Consultants/ information 8 months 1 08,000 1%

WORKSHOPS & TRAINING

680

Workshops & Training 2 5 0,000 0%

GENERAL EXPENSES

700

Travel 12 months 1 80,000 1%
710 Information & Public Relations 6 times 3 6,000 0%
730 Office running costs 12 months 8 5,200 0%
740 Communication Costs 12 months 7 8,600 0%
750 Professional Fees 1 time 8 47,400 4%
760 Financial Charges 1 year 3 ,000 0%
790 Other General Expenses 12 months 4 6,445 0%

PROGRAMME SUPPORT

599

Programme Support - PSR 1 ,304,967 6.5%

Total Operational Needs 3 ,596,412
18%

Total Appeal Budget (Cash & Kind) 20,076,412
100%

Available Resources
Net Request 2 0,076,412

Hanwang township of Mianzhu, (pop. 60,000), suffered serious
casualties: at least 200 students and teachers were buried after
a building of the factory’s adjunctive middle school collapsed
In County of Mianyang, the local Red Cross
branch reported that by 20:00 on 12 May,
about 5,000 people were feared dead,
6000-7000 people were buried in the ruin,
and at least 20,000 people were injured.

Xuankou
Yingxiu

Wenchuan
Beichuan

CHENGDU

100 KM
50 KM
25 KM

Sichuan
Chongqing

7.9
Dujiangyan
YAAN
XINJIN
MEISHAN
SUINING
SHEHONG
Hanwang
PENGSHAN
QIONGLAI
GUANGHAN
MIANYANG
Shuangliu
PENG XIAN

The maps used do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or National Societies concerning the legal status of a territory or of its authorities.
Map data sources: ESRI, DEVINFO, USGS, GIST, CIESIN, International Federation - MDRCN003OU1.mxd

China: Earthquake

DREF MDRCN003
13 May 2008
EQ-2008-000062-CHN

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Source: World Vision
Date: 19 May 2008

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By World Vision staff
- Some 5 million are homeless; tents, plastic sheets needed for temporary shelter
- Family tells aid workers of surviving ?a nightmare?; 9 year old was one of only seven survivors from her collapsed classroom
- World Vision?s relief distributions continue despite weekend flooding scare
As China enters three days of national mourning for the now 32,000 confirmed quake dead, World Vision continues to distribute aid and survey the needs of devastated communities in Sichuan Province.
Immediate response
The agency, whose 12 local staff in Qingchuan County began responding almost immediately, is finding that temporary shelter remains the most urgent necessity for victims in hard-hit areas. Tents and shelter materials, mainly plastic sheets, are in greatest need.
?In Mianzhu, a hard-hit region, survivors are camping out on streets, and basic needs like food, tents and water are seriously lacking,? said Mei Mei Leung, World Vision?s senior relief officer for China.
In response, World Vision plans to bring in another 4,000 plastic sheets, 3,000 quilts and 50 tents this week to assist affected communities. This is in addition to the 800 tents, 30,000 quilts, 464,100 kg of food and 2,000 shelter tarpaulins the agency has already planned to provide to survivors. Distributions have already begun in Qingchuan County, where World Vision conducts a community development program.
Working around the clock
World Vision?s relief team has worked around the clock to conduct post-quake assessment and relief work in several quake-stricken areas. Staff are reporting that many villagers have lost all their possessions and are grieving over the deaths of their loved ones.
?In Deyang City of Shifang County, many victims have lost one or more loved ones to this calamity and they are in deep grief,? said Leung.
Leung and her team visited more than 1,000 survivors in Shifang County?s Deyang City on Friday. They assessed the most urgent needs in the area and distributed child friendly kits and disaster preparedness manuals to affected children.
Helping children
Li Yao, 9, survived her school building?s collapse after her teacher pushed her out from their third-story classroom. Only six other pupils from her class survived, and more than 200 of the 300 students in her primary school were killed in the quake. Li Yao and her family shared their story with World Vision staff at a government shelter in Shifang. ?It was a nightmare,? said Li Yao?s mother, who recounted how the family walked out of their devastated mountain village while shielding the little girl?s eyes from the bodies lining the streets.
To address the unique needs of children orphaned or otherwise affected by the quake, World Vision plans to open three Child-Friendly Spaces in the coming days. Games and activities in a safe environment will help children regain a sense of normalcy after their difficult experiences.
World Vision also remains concerned about children?s physical needs, especially in remote areas where aid has just begun to reach.
?Thousands of victims, including children, are still barely surviving in appalling conditions where food and water are scarcely provided,? reports Kevin Chiu, Chief Executive Officer of World Vision?s Hong Kong office, who joined the agency?s China staff in visiting hard-hit areas this past weekend.
Chiu and the team went on to warn that safe drinking water and nutritious food must urgently reach the youngest survivors of this quake.
Flood warnings called off
Meanwhile, World Vision staff in Qingchuan County had begun a quilt and tent distribution Saturday when warnings came of the potential flooding from a local river. The staff stopped the distribution and evacuated the area, but after the flood warning was called off by the authorities, World Vision was able to continue distributing quilts and tents to families in Liangshui and Qiaozhuang Townships in the county. World Vision plans to reach more than 123,000 survivors with relief and rehabilitation activities totaling about $2 million. Long-term rehabilitation activities will focus on shelter and school reconstruction. :tiphat:
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CHINA - 8.0 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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