China 2008 Earthquake Aftermath, Health and Epidemic Issues

Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

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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Treyfish · May 19, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Rescue disaster areas disinfection soldiers killed flies infected rodents, and other sources
At 3:08 on May 20, 2008 [I

-- (Lim Kyu money Hailong reporter Hua Tang Ming) yesterday, a unit of paratroopers stationed in Seoul more than 200 people put on white, commitment to the disaster areas of disinfection tasks. With the increase of temperature disaster areas, in order to prevent the occurrence of the epidemic, they use a car sprayed disinfectant, Kangqi local hospitals prepared more than 100 mobile sprayers, Han Wang Zhen City on the ruins of the collapse, the urban areas, densely populated areas Disinfection, to ensure that the disinfection does not stay dead ends, the film is zoned area, distinguishing between primary responsibility is to eliminate flies infected rodents, and other sources to prevent respiratory tract, dysentery and other infectious diseases.

It is learnt that the current Chinese Wang Zhen has not found the disease phenomenon.:tiphat: http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=...ttp://news.sohu.com/20080520/n256962362.shtml

Treyfish · May 20, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

2008-05-20

Rescue / relief while rescue teams were transferred to Mianyang seriously ill siblings

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Xinhua news, the Guangdong border rescue team on the 19th morning in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province to visit the town of An-Chang prepared to enter the North-County Rescue, an elderly women suddenly rushed to the special station medical teams for help, said her grandson, Granddaughter had a serious illness for several days.
The medical team captain Zhang Chunyu immediately led several medical team, medicine brought me with the elderly went to his home. After a difficult path curved road, elderly people with the soldiers came to their temporary place of residence. Here the past is a brick kilns and experienced after the earthquake has become shaky. A June 7-year-old girl and her brother Yiwei together, the younger brother has been unconscious.
Border soldiers taking into account local aftershocks continued, the factory is very dangerous, immediately Jie Dilia hold to a nearby tent for an ambulance. It is understood that the elderly are the local villagers, the son and daughter-in-law are working in the field, one of her own at home care for grandchildren. Earthquake, with her two children ran out, had been hiding in the old brick kilns.
Due to lack of food and poor hygiene, has two children sick, two-year-old grandson has been semi-coma two days. Not with the outside world for the elderly, can only hope the foot of the mountain rescue vehicles passing through the staff to where her grandchildren.
After treatment, two children's condition been basically brought under control, the soldiers gave them some medicine and powdered milk, and their placement in a more secure tent. Pror to departure also rescue soldiers on the ground near the residence of the victims of disinfection, and left some drugs. :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...cc/society_focus/200805/t20080520_782607.html

Treyfish · May 20, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Dies the over poultry to increase bubonic plague crisis surely

[Eastern daily paper special news]Has land of abundance fine reputation Sichuan, the poultry and the crops loss is serious in the earthquake, what is more worrying, the bad hygienic environment will increase epidemics and so on bubonic plague to erupt the crisis. National Ministry of Agriculture indicated that the earthquake occurs until now, Sichuan, Chongqing, Shanxi, Gansu, Yunnan five provinces and cities had 13,000,000 poultry disaster death, the Sichuan victimized persons six city state death poultry reaches 12,340,000 heads.

Insect disinfestation rodenticides serious insufficient
Ministry of Agriculture warned that poultry's corpse has the possibility to pollute the drinking water and food supply, erupts the crisis the epidemic situation to be bigger. Possibly erupts epidemic including the bird flu, the encephalitis, the mad dog sickness, the wounded also possibly presents anthrax and tetanus. Russia guards against the expert to warn early the disaster area has presents bubonic plague's danger. Ministry of Agriculture indicated that has assigned four guard squads to go to the victimized persons development disinfection work, and instigates 1000 tons disinfectants and 50 ton insect disinfestation rodenticideses to the disaster area. But supplied was still insufficient 夠, only the Beichuan county has needed 100 tons disinfectants, but until now only then five tons, in addition needed ten tons above pesticides, but presently has several hundred kilograms, the gap was big, the situation was very stern. Moreover, the Sichuan 20,000 hectare vegetable fields and 10,000 hectares wheat fields are destroyed in the earthquake. The irrigation facility receives destroys, also in the future will restore the serious influence farmer the planter paddy rice.:tiphat: http://svsurl.systransoft.com/?t=ou...k=11d1def534ea1be0--4482064e-119fe7a2513-2b96

Treyfish · May 20, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

20/05/2008, on Tuesday in the afternoon 11:39

Caption: Villagers dead chicken abandonment in rivers. (Xu Shu凎)

Is close to explodes plague City of Deyang to be in danger

Although Sichuan disaster area excessive seven, but because large quantities of victim remains and the domestic animal corpse cannot obtain properly processing, breeds each kind of germ highly rottenly, passes through the rain water again the washout, starts to pollute the water source, the disaster area downstream city many people faced with is compelled to drink the poisonous water, at present has the diarrhea the disaster victims grow day by day, the large-scale plague erupts imminently. The victimized persons Deyang city official, hoped that requests reinforcements urgently through the newspaper to Hong Kong and the international society, the plea water quality, the environmental protection expert go to the locality to assist to deal with the underground water quality issue. Including seismic vertical Wenchuan, this earthquake's victimized persons concentrate in the topography high mountainous area and the side hill. ?these many humanities and the animal corpse bury in underground, what in the short-term possibly doesn't have, but one to the rainy season, the downstream has been miserable.?

The corpse pollutant infiltrates the landing sewer
City of Deyang media center person in charge Deng Jianhua said heavyheartedly: ?on our City of Deyang's situation, Deyang is the downstream which victimized persons Mianzhu, obstructs assorted, the disaster area corpse possible contaminated soil, after raining, the pollutant can seep the ground water, also possibly rushes to the surface water, finally affects the downstream cities.?This municipal government material refers to, until now only disinfects processing corpse 4400, however Deyang over ten thousand dead, most is near several days only then unearths.

The rainy day insolation accelerates to putrefy alternately
Since the earthquake has occurred, the disaster area experiences two times ?has done steams wet?, the rainy day and the insolation high temperature weather appears alternately, buries in the rubble victim remains and the domestic animal corpse already highly rotten, breeds each kind of microorganism and disease. Illness controls the expert to indicate that demonstrated in Mianzhu Chinese prosperous town's all sorts of signs, if is not prompt takes the measure, consequence possible inconceivable. It is reported that the item of former han dynasty prosperous town already presented the sign which the enteral infection patient increases, ?this is an extremely dangerous signal.?Actually, dozens of stricken county different villages and towns village presented the diarrhea symptom. The Sichuan countryside at present drinks the ground water. In Qingchuan County, seismic failure Waterworks' facilities and so on precipitation, have buried the disinfectant and so on, the cities running water quality have been unoptimistic. This county sandbar town running water quality because of bacterium total exceeding the allowed figure, had determined that for is unqualified. The Qingchuan county is at Qiao Zhuang the town, the running water pollution is also unable to withstand, the locality presents the intestinal tract disease's patient also suddenly to increase. In addition, many villagers seek after conveniently, throws conveniently the domestic animal skeleton to inside the open land, the reservoir and the rivers. East Mianzhu the northern town Guang Hecun horse's tail section of river, in the river is floating the dead pig, the chicken duck, has been soaked to swells rottenly, spreads the intermittent odor. The horse's tail rivers after the Mianzhu town center, flow to cities again and so on Deyang, Guanghan. City of Deyang's house document ?illness controls the group work bulletin? to point out that the Mianzhu animal corpse float drainage, the ruins, not yet carry on disinfection processing, brings the very major difficulty to the guard. However to comfort the will of the people, the authority emphasizes the regional drinking waters unceasingly ?the present security available?. {The authorities tells them the water is good anyway

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Giuseppe · May 20, 2008

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Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

[WHO] Sichuan Earthquake - Situation Report - 19 May 2008

* A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Wenchuan County, 159 kilometers northwest of the Sichuan provincial capital city of Chengdu, at 2:28 p.m., 12 May 2008, Monday.

* On 19 May, the official death toll rose to 34,073 dead and is expected to keep rising in the coming days.

? Highlights:
* Search and rescue efforts continue in the affected area.
* Emergency teams are working around the clock to search for survivors in the rubble, provide essential first-aid to injured victims, clear roads and organize the provision of food, blankets, shelter and essential medicines.

WHO is working with the United Nations Disaster Management Team and the MoH to identify priority needs and obtain needed supplies.

? Health impact:
* 245,108 people were injured, according to the emergency response office of the State Council. Thousands reported still buried and thousands missing.

* Priorities include:
-- Treating the injured
-- Communicable disease surveillance and control
-- Ensuring safe water and food supply,
-- Immediate and long term mental health and psychosocial support

? Health Sector Response:
The MoH has indicated willingness to accept foreign medical teams through Chinese Red Cross

? WHO Response:
-- WHO Country office (in coordination with UNRC/UNDMT) submitted application for CERF funds with support of WPRO and HQ.
-- Initial response from CERF secretariat expected within 24 hours

-- WHO Country office and WPRO reviewing revised request of government for emergency health supplies/equipment needed in the affected areas.
-- HQ prepared to provide resource mobilization, procurement and logistics support as needed
-- WHO Country office, WPRO and HQ held teleconference to discuss procurement of items identified by MoH, resource mobilization, and other operational issues.
-- WHO CO monitoring situation with support of WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and Headquarters.

? Urgent needs:
The MoH has identified urgently needed medical supplies and equipment to enable communicable disease prevention, surveillance and control.
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http://www.wpro.who.int/sites/eha/disasters/emergency_reports/Sichuan+Earthquake.htm
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Treyfish · May 20, 2008

Re: China quake

Re: China quake

21/05/2008, on Wednesday in the morning 04:04

Nearby the corpse works officers and soldiers Yi Zhongzhao

[Eastern daily paper special news]Because the disaster area condition is bad, many victim remains bury carelessly, in the rain wash, the wild dog digs nips reveals the ground, enlarges the epidemic situation eruption crisis. In addition the health protection equipment is by far insufficient, causes ten ten thousand extreme weak officers and soldiers momentarily moves, pours on the ruins, because the item of former han dynasty prosperous town had the People's Liberation Army and the villagers contacts is polluted the corpse, presents skin disease.

The equipment 夠 only does not put on the raincoat protection
?our higher authority emphasized specially, must in protect well appointed, can contact the corpse.?The officer said from Guangdong's marine corps Ma Xing that present's mouthpiece, the glove 夠 do not use, sometimes meets the highly rotten corpse, ?that puts on the raincoat protection.?The situation is anxious. Ma Xing the officer leads 20 person of sub-elements, yesterday by before dawn work to 5:00 pm, has buried the human remains which and the domestic animal corpse in the Mianzhu villages and towns exposes. ?we have buried today six remains, some of them have been nipped by the wild dog, reveals a leg, after some by rain wash, reveals clothes.?He said that the villagers buried die the remains compared to casually, only placed the remains in the open land, then pile on light earth, ?the pit has not dug.?

?many person skins had the question?
According to is responsible for the People's Liberation Army chemical defense soldiers who processes the corpse introduce that at present regarding the dereliction corpse, mainly digs a big hole on the mountain, will enter bag's corpse after the liquid medicines processing breech loading to bury the pit. But because the casualty are too many, sometimes the corpse bag 夠, only cannot the corpse bag recycling, after passing through processing, circulates uses again. City of Deyang earthquake relief work Control center concerned person in charge Deng Jianhua appealed that the outside donates the protective suit to give the People's Liberation Army as soon as possible, ?is responsible for more than 20,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers who Deyang rescues, is facing disease to threaten, many person's skins had the problem.? World Health Organization general manager Chen Feng Fuzhen said that Sichuan the earthquake occurs already several days, maintains monitors continually to prevents the disaster area epidemic situation to be extremely important. She said that WHO has resisted natural calamities the question and the Chinese government carries on clasp, momentarily prepares for China's disaster relief to provide the essential help and the support.:tiphat: http://svsurl.systransoft.com/?t=ou...k=11d1def534ea1be0--4482064e-119fe7a2513-42f2

Treyfish · May 21, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

The Government of the victory to the disaster areas, stray cats and dogs to see a killing

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"Dog dead than dead!" Sichuan disaster areas, not only victims of dry food, have nowhere to go; was a master of keeping pet cats and dogs, the earthquake also become a stray cats and dogs in that they have no food Under the circumstances, in the past few days in search of food and garbage everywhere Pianni so that the already very poor sanitary conditions even worse.

[SIZE=-6](博讯boxun.com)Authorities fear the outbreak of rabies, while also worried that there will be people Egou抢macrophages body, and therefore decided to mass culling cats and dogs, the "see a killing an."

Dujiangyan City paste out the dogs

Dujiangyan city government which started the day before yesterday, posted in the city streets "in post-disaster surprise eliminate dog" notice that prohibited any units and individuals in the affected areas resettlement or keeping dogs and cats; municipal departments concerned and all townships and towns, see a stray cat That is, the dog will be killed, no person shall stop, and offenders will be strict Department.

In addition, the circular also instructed people not to abandon cats and dogs chaos bodies must be buried corpses and destruction of processing; municipal government also appealed to the people if Pigouyaoshang scratch, must immediately seek treatment and injection of rabies vaccine. For the culling of stray dogs in cats, have welcomed the victims, some people said: "The dog dead than dead!" However, the reporter on the 20th of Dujiangyan in the street still see many stray dogs, Sichuan Province in a major earthquake before, is Rabies in high-risk areas, the disaster area health conditions, the rabies problem more severe[/SIZE]

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Treyfish · May 21, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width=453 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=t26blk>China moves to prevent epidemic disease in quake areas
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=453 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=238><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=t14blk></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=453 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top><TABLE width=215 align=right valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=205 bgColor=#d6d6d6 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffff></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=205 bgColor=#d6d6d6 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffff></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>At 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, a ceremony was held at Wenchuan, epicenter of the powerful earthquake that jolted China on May 12, to announce the launching of joint action by army men, police and civilians to carry out disease prevention in the earthquake areas.

At the same time, a military medical team specializing in the prevention of epidemic diseases that affect humans and animals left Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, aboard a passenger plane on Wednesday morning, heading for Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Its members, all with doctoral degrees, are from the Military Veterinary Institute of the Military Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Their job is to sterilize the carcasses of dead animals that might harbor diseases that are infectious to humans and animals, said Gao Hongwei, head of the institute.

As earthquake relief campaign enters the 10th day, a top priority for the authorities and rescuers has become the prevention of infectious diseases in the quake areas, where numerous human and animal bodies are decomposing beneath the ruins, a hotbed for dangerous infectious diseases.

"It is not sheer alarmism," said Jiang Tianjun, a doctor with the PLA's No. 302 Hospital in Beijing, referring to the possibility of an outbreak of serious epidemic diseases in the areas stricken by the devastating quake.

The expert urged people in the affected areas to be vigilant against rats, mosquitoes, flies and bugs. Contaminated water should be cleared away from residential areas and pesticide sprayed to kill mosquitoes hiding underneath the ruins and other shelters, he said.

The expert advised people to sleep in mosquito nets, cover up drinking water and wear long-sleeved coats and long trousers. He also suggested that local residents get hepatitis-B vaccinations as soon as possible.

Recently, the China Center for the Control of Animal Diseases published a pamphlet on the prevention of animal diseases, advising people not to cut, eat, sell or transport dead animals. All animal carcasses must be sterilized and buried at least 2 meters deep, it said.

It also advised local authorities to closely monitor the situation, strictly control and supervise animal breeding, butchering, processing, transport and storage, and severely punish the trading of dead animals.

In the chatrooms of many Chinese websites, netizens are calling for the government to take immediate action to prevent possible epidemic diseases, while persuading people, mostly volunteers, to stop flooding into the affected areas from other parts of the country.

To make way for the upcoming large-scale disease-prevention efforts, military rescuers have began relocating local residents, mostly villagers, away from their homes in the worst-hit areas.

On Wednesday, a 3,200-person detachment of the Chinese People's Armed Police resettled 4,149 villagers from the remote areas of Wenchuan. According to military sources, soldiers searched the villagers' homes door to door, to ensure that no one was left behind in the affected villages, which will be completely sterilized in the coming days.

As of noon of Wednesday, the death toll from the quake had reached 41,353 nationwide, while 274,683 people were injured and 32,666 still missing.

It was even more powerful than the Tangshan earthquake in 1976 in terms of scope and intensity, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said during his inspection of the quake-hit areas in Sichuan.

Measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, the catastrophe in Tangshan of north China's Hebei Province claimed about 240,000. :tiphat:

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Treyfish · May 22, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 22 May 2008

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WHO rushing more medical aid to China, sending expert team for health system reconstruction



Beijing/Manila, 22 May 2008 ?The World Health Organization (WHO) is rushing additional medical supplies to the People's Republic of China. The supplies will be able to treat 130 000 people. WHO is also sending an expert team to collaborate with the government on rebuilding its health infrastructure following the devastating May 12 earthquake.
WHO will provide equipment to ensure clean drinking water and proper sanitation, which is vital for controlling any outbreak and spread of communicable diseases such as diarrhoea. This includes 5 000 chlorine disinfection tablets, drinking-water treatment units and mobile toilets.
Four Interagency Emergency Health Kits are now being sent to the quake-affected areas of Sichuan Province by WHO. Each kit provides sufficient essential medicines and supplies to treat 30 000 people for one month. Contained in the kits are medicines for common diseases and medical devices for primary health care workers.
A WHO team of experts will be dispatched shortly to China to support government efforts to reconstruct health care services severely impaired and damaged by the 8.0 magnitude earthquake.
"WHO has already identified that the key health issue in the earthquake's aftermath is to prevent and control communicable disease outbreaks," said Dr Eric Laroche, Assistant Director-General for WHO's Health Action in Crises cluster. "But the longer-term challenge is how to best rebuild its damaged health infrastructure."
WHO promotes the construction of hospitals and health facilities that can survive the impact of natural disasters, including high-intensity earthquakes. In most cases, a very small increase in construction costs is sufficient to enable health facilities to withstand such natural disasters, at a time when their services and staff are most needed.
Dr Hans Troedsson, WHO's Representative to China, said the expert team would include a specialist in constructing appropriate health systems, as well as an epidemiologist to assist in disease surveillance control.
"We know health facilities in and around the epicentre of the earthquake were severely affected by the disaster," Dr Troedsson said. "WHO wants to support Chinese efforts to restore fully its hospitals, clinics and other health facilities to ensure they are strong enough to withstand future natural disasters and provide healthcare in the wake of others."
The United Nations has contributed US$ 8 million from its Central Emergency Relief Fund to the Chinese government, and UN agencies are intensifying support to authorities there to mobilize relief efforts. WHO and other UN agencies are preparing to send further medical supplies and emergency equipment requested by the Government. WHO has already acquired emergency medical supplies locally in China and given them to local authorities to assist in the provision of health care for survivors in the affected area. These include rapid water quality testing instruments, chlorine disinfectant equipment, drinking water treatment equipment and mobile sanitation facilities.
WHO has been providing the Chinese Ministry of Health and the Center for Disease Control with ongoing technical assistance and materials on health emergency management and preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
For further information contact:
Peter Cordingley
Communications Officer
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Manila, Philippines
Telephone: +63 2 582 9991/92
Mobile: +63 917 844 3688
E-mail: cordingleyp@wpro.who.int Paul Garwood
Communications Officer
Health Action in Crises
WHO, Geneva
Mobile: +41 794 75 55 46
E-mail: garwoodp@who.int :tiphat: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ASAZ-7EVBWW?OpenDocument

Gert van der Hoek · May 22, 2008

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Re: CHINA - 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Archive Number 20080522.1683
Published Date 22-MAY-2008
Subject PRO/EDR> Clostridium perfringens, gas gangrene - China: (Sichuan), RFI

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS, GAS GANGRENE - CHINA: (SICHUAN), REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
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Date: Mon 19 May 2008
Source: China.org.cn [edited]
<http://www.china.org.cn/china/wenchuan_earthquake/2008-05/19/content_15331265.htm>

According to sources at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CCDCP) 30 patients in Sichuan University's Huaxi Hospital
have been infected with gas gangrene. An isolation ward has been set
up to prevent the disease spreading. All patients injured in the
quake arriving at Huaxi Hospital will be sent to the isolation ward
for diagnosis on arrival.

Five patients diagnosed with gas gangrene disease on [14 May 2008]
are in a stable condition, according to Shi Yingkang, the dean of
Huaxi Hospital.

Gas gangrene is a bacterial infection that produces gas within
gangrenous tissue. People with open fractures are particularly
susceptible. It is caused by the clostridium bacteria and if left
untreated is usually fatal within 12 hours. Isolation of patients and
effective disinfection can prevent cross infection. It takes about 5
minutes to diagnose the disease by testing wound secretions.

There have been no cases of cross infection in Huaxi Hospital so far.
But rescuers in the quake-hit region have been warned not to make
direct contact with survivors' skin, and to follow effective
disinfection procedures.

Experts from CCDCP say isolation wards should be set up in all
hospitals receiving patients from the quake-hit area. All injured
persons transferred from the quake area should be first sent to
isolation wards to be checked for gas gangrene. If gas gangrene is
suspected, treatment must begin immediately. Thoroughly cleaning
wounds, removing foreign objects and dead tissue is the best way to
prevent clostridium infection.

[Byline: Wu Nanlan]

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Communicated by:
Kazumasa Matsuki
<Kazumasa_Matsuki@member.metro.tokyo.jp>

[Another news release states that as of 19 May 2008, 58 cases of gas
gangrene had been reported by several major facilities treating
survivors of the earthquake in Sichuan, China. Of these, about 30
will require amputation (see
http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/200805/21/t20080521_15553120.shtml).

Gas gangrene is a rapidly progressive, frequently fatal, necrotizing
infection of muscle that is usually caused by _Clostridium
perfringens_, and thus is also called clostridial myonecrosis. Gas
gangrene usually involves traumatic civilian and war wounds, but can
also involve surgical wounds, particularly after colon or biliary
surgery. Clostridial uterine myonecrosis can complicate a septic abortion.

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