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Urban warfare broke out disease prevention experts called for: the urgent need for substantial garbage containers
http://www.newssc.org 2008-05-16 23:39:07

At about 10 am yesterday, the Urban Center for Disease Control and Prevention four staff members of the post-disaster disinfection of the second group came to the City People's Hospital, than he led a spray disinfectant sprayers. It is reported that on the morning of 14, the CDC started in the urban areas of disease prevention campaign. Experts called for, in order to prevent post-disaster epidemic outbreak of infectious diseases, urban staff gathering places the urgent need for substantial plastic containers to collect garbage, and hope that all sectors of the community to donate.

Zhizhao experts: how to prevent disease

According to Lai, deputy director of the city CDC Yalin, "12" after the earthquake disaster, the city CDC staff were immediately organized to Mianzhu, Shifang disaster scene, understanding the relevance of secondary disasters hidden dangers, the focus on Food, drinking water and body to monitor processing, medical treatment, the victims in mass gathering places, schools for disinfection, disease prevention and promotion of knowledge and health guidance.
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It is understood that the city urgently disaster control center has formed a group disinfection, quarantine group, information education, and other expert groups that were dispatched to urban hospitals, staff focus on places for disinfection, disease prevention and promotion, while issuing the "post-quake emergency Disinfection programme "," after the earthquake disease prevention "and other promotional materials for more than 10 million copies.
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Construction of ship lift at Three Gorges halted

The construction of the ship lifting facility of the Three Gorges hydroelectric project was temporarily suspended after Monday's strong quake for the concern of workers' safety but resumed on Tuesday.
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The installation of the remaining four turbo-generators on the right bank are under way and will go as planned.

By 9 AM Wednesday, no geological disaster triggered by the quake was found in the Three Gorges reservoir area. Navigation near the dam was normal.

The turbo-generators work normally. The station produced 167 million kilowatt hours of electricity on Monday and 183 million kwh on Tuesday.

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Alert: Chongqing 459 bridges damaged due to earthquake

Hualong Wang today, announced after the earthquake Shijiao Wei, Chongqing transport facilities were affected: As of 12:00 today, the city's total of 459 damaged bridges, damaged tunnels 20 Block, currently running 25 locks, 10 signal Desk, three fairways terminals were affected to varying degrees, of which: Studio 7 lock gates, 10 different signals Taiwan cracks, two lock in water leakage, deformation Damage.

"After our urgent rectification, the damage to bridges, tunnels and terminals, both lock in a controlled state." Shi Jiaowei official said, is now actively guide the city through disaster relief vehicles, personnel, to support the disaster areas in Sichuan.
"Next, focus on the damaged bridge security risks to focus on training to prevent secondary disasters."
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This is May 15 Aerial of Dujiangyan in Sichuan disaster areas. At present, local disaster relief work is intense and orderly manner, bridges, reservoirs and dams are safe and sound.

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Central gov't departments continue efforts in quake relief
www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-17 01:41:36
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Various departments of China's central government continued their work in disaster relief on Friday after a 7.8-magnitude quake jolted Wenchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The Ministry of Finance on Friday set aside another 1.17 billion yuan (167 million U.S. dollars) for disaster relief. The move brought the total money earmarked from the central budget so far for quake relief to 3.41 billion yuan.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) ordered to publish psychological counseling manuals to help students of primary and middle schools in quake-hit areas against mental problems.

The books should be sent to the students before June 1. Colleges under the MOE, which have the psychology department, should provide psychological counseling through hotlines or the Internet. The China Education Television and China Education News should establish columns for psychological experts to help quake-affected students.

The Communist Youth League of China and the National Youth Working Committee and called on juvenile volunteers and experts to help with psychological counseling work to quake-affected children.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said Friday that 31 drinking water sources in 11 cities and counties in Sichuan, including Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan, Dujiangyan, Mianzhu and Beichuan, have been tested safe to drink.

The ministry had inspected more than 10,000 companies and factories to clear environmental safety risks.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs on Friday required local bureaus to accommodate survivors properly and built shelter centers to provide relief supplies to them.

As of 5:00 p.m. Thursday, 2,610 shelter centers had been established in quake-stricken areas to provide relief supplies to survivors, the ministry statistics showed.

The ministry had allocated more than 180,000 tents, 220,000 quilts and 170,000 cotton-padded clothes to the quake-hit areas as of 2 p.m. Friday.

The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said it was stepping up efforts to ensure safety of drugs and medical equipment donated by domestic companies to quake victims.

So far, 170 million yuan worth of medicine and medical equipment has been donated by drug manufacturers under coordination of the SFDA.

The Ministry of Land and Resources and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping successfully took photos by air over quake-affected populated areas in Sichuan. The information would be handed in for disaster relief and rebuilding.

The Supreme People's Court ordered courts at all levels severely punish those who spread rumors in accordance with laws, to ensure social stability.

The General Administration of Press and Publications extended regards to the reporters working in quake-hit areas, praising their contribution to the disaster relief work.

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Epidemic / large-scale outbreak of the epidemic at any time or water into the source of the disease

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[Sing Tao network - to achieve the disaster after a big goal of the epidemic, timely access to the disaster areas must carry out epidemic prevention work, disaster areas and drinking water sanitation is the most important link. China Disease Prevention and Control Center environment and health-related security experts Yuelin on the 16th of the recommendations: the current disaster areas the primary task is to ensure that health and safety of the drinking water supply, as soon as possible to strengthen the management of water sanitation. Wenchuan M8.5 nearly four days, the official said the death toll in Sichuan Province is estimated over 50,000, the hardest hit in Wenchuan, and so on, apart from housing to destroy, the more terrible is not yet tens of thousands of corpses dug up, Yingxiuwan a town of only nine adult materials were buried alive, have begun to Fachou, all township and kills people the epidemic may break out at any time.

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Weather Forecast shows that the next few days the hot weather, but also increase the risk of large-scale outbreak.
China news agency reported that in 1976 Tangshan earthquake disaster areas during the national Ministry of Health health and epidemic prevention team captain, 40 years at the outbreak of large-scale epidemic environmental health research work experience Yue Lin said that after the initial earthquake disaster area health - Of the primary task is to identify as soon as possible for drinking water, sanitation supply various measures to ensure the health and safety of drinking water, reduce the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases.
She stressed that the post-earthquake disaster areas to be continuously monitors the epidemic and environmental pollution, especially rubbish, dirt removal, and focus on large area due to high concentrations of disinfection of the follow-up monitoring and do a good job rebuilding preventive health supervision.
After the earthquake so that the water supply will suffer serious damage to facilities, centralized water supply interruption, distributed water supply are also subject to different degrees of damage.

饮用水。​

Was the height of summer when the Tangshan earthquake, people urgently need drinking water. In the absence of available drinking water sources, including people had to drink rain water, pit water, pond water, swimming pool water, or even industrial wastewater, the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases caused by sharp rise.
Yue Lin said that testing has proved that widespread organic water pollution, coliform bacteria generally exceeded health standards, resulting in post-earthquake early, the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases dramatically increased, there was the treatment of gastro-intestinal diseases shortage of drugs there.
She suggested that the disaster areas should be undertaken as soon as the water quality testing, identification of drinking water, while vigorously carry out disinfection of drinking water quality and a wide range of health supervision in order to effectively reduce the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases. "It is dispersed or centralized water supply, the most important thing is disinfected, but also the prevention of body alkali poisoning the water around as soon as possible to remove the bodies."
Yue Lin pointed out that in cleaning up the remains should be wearing anti-virus with activated carbon filtration masks and gloves, with special attention to prevent the hand injury to avoid stained bacterial toxins cause poisoning after operate and must be carefully wash their hands before meals. To prevent tetanus infection, such as trauma, vaccination sera; approach should not be burned body to prevent contamination of the atmosphere and prevent the crowd inhalation poisoning. In addition, the buried bodies, we must pay attention to the local soil and groundwater may cause pollution must be conducted on the remains of sanitation.
"Although Sichuan disaster areas and the Tangshan disaster areas natural conditions, different living environment, is also a difference in an earthquake in more than two months, but the disaster area health and epidemic prevention problem is the same; environmental disaster areas in particular climatic conditions, the proposed pollution prevention The higher requirements. " Therefore, the "earthquake-stricken area health and epidemic prevention will be a tough battle." :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080516_780693.html

 

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[Sing Tao network - to achieve the disaster after a big goal of the epidemic, timely access to the disaster areas must carry out epidemic prevention work, disaster areas and drinking water sanitation is the most important link. China Disease Prevention and Control Center environment and health-related security experts Yuelin on the 16th of the recommendations: the current disaster areas the primary task is to ensure that health and safety of the drinking water supply, as soon as possible to strengthen the management of water sanitation. Wenchuan M8.5 nearly four days, the official said the death toll in Sichuan Province is estimated over 50,000, the hardest hit in Wenchuan, and so on, apart from housing to destroy, the more terrible is not yet tens of thousands of corpses dug up, Yingxiuwan a town of only nine adult materials were buried alive, have begun to Fachou, all township and kills people the epidemic may break out at any time.

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Weather Forecast shows that the next few days the hot weather, but also increase the risk of large-scale outbreak.
China news agency reported that in 1976 Tangshan earthquake disaster areas during the national Ministry of Health health and epidemic prevention team captain, 40 years at the outbreak of large-scale epidemic environmental health research work experience Yue Lin said that after the initial earthquake disaster area health - Of the primary task is to identify as soon as possible for drinking water, sanitation supply various measures to ensure the health and safety of drinking water, reduce the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases.
She stressed that the post-earthquake disaster areas to be continuously monitors the epidemic and environmental pollution, especially rubbish, dirt removal, and focus on large area due to high concentrations of disinfection of the follow-up monitoring and do a good job rebuilding preventive health supervision.
After the earthquake so that the water supply will suffer serious damage to facilities, centralized water supply interruption, distributed water supply are also subject to different degrees of damage.

饮用水。​

Was the height of summer when the Tangshan earthquake, people urgently need drinking water. In the absence of available drinking water sources, including people had to drink rain water, pit water, pond water, swimming pool water, or even industrial wastewater, the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases caused by sharp rise.
Yue Lin said that testing has proved that widespread organic water pollution, coliform bacteria generally exceeded health standards, resulting in post-earthquake early, the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases dramatically increased, there was the treatment of gastro-intestinal diseases shortage of drugs there.
She suggested that the disaster areas should be undertaken as soon as the water quality testing, identification of drinking water, while vigorously carry out disinfection of drinking water quality and a wide range of health supervision in order to effectively reduce the incidence of intestinal infectious diseases. "It is dispersed or centralized water supply, the most important thing is disinfected, but also the prevention of body alkali poisoning the water around as soon as possible to remove the bodies."
Yue Lin pointed out that in cleaning up the remains should be wearing anti-virus with activated carbon filtration masks and gloves, with special attention to prevent the hand injury to avoid stained bacterial toxins cause poisoning after operate and must be carefully wash their hands before meals. To prevent tetanus infection, such as trauma, vaccination sera; approach should not be burned body to prevent contamination of the atmosphere and prevent the crowd inhalation poisoning. In addition, the buried bodies, we must pay attention to the local soil and groundwater may cause pollution must be conducted on the remains of sanitation.
"Although Sichuan disaster areas and the Tangshan disaster areas natural conditions, different living environment, is also a difference in an earthquake in more than two months, but the disaster area health and epidemic prevention problem is the same; environmental disaster areas in particular climatic conditions, the proposed pollution prevention The higher requirements. " Therefore, the "earthquake-stricken area health and epidemic prevention will be a tough battle." :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080516_780693.html

 

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救援/大规模搜救结束了遗体即刻深埋​

Rescue / end of the large-scale search and rescue immediately buried the remains

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[Sing Tao network - Sichuan earthquakes over the past four days, the current first phase of work has basically ended, Shifang (Luoshui town), Mianzhu, Dujiangyan, and so put an end to large-scale search and rescue, and then transferred to medical assistance for the main tasks of the The second stage. From the beginning on the 16th, the end of large-scale search and rescue region no longer dug up the remains unclaimed, immediately buried. "Snip":tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080516_780318.html

 

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Text time :2008-05-16

救援/大规模搜救结束了遗体即刻深埋​

Rescue / end of the large-scale search and rescue immediately buried the remains

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[Sing Tao network - Sichuan earthquakes over the past four days, the current first phase of work has basically ended, Shifang (Luoshui town), Mianzhu, Dujiangyan, and so put an end to large-scale search and rescue, and then transferred to medical assistance for the main tasks of the The second stage. From the beginning on the 16th, the end of large-scale search and rescue region no longer dug up the remains unclaimed, immediately buried. "Snip":tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080516_780318.html

 

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Rescue / hospital treated the wounded 64,040 people in quarantine will be Baogan

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As at 10:00 on May 15, emergency medical teams dispatched to 6107, and the scene where the injured 23,449 people, and Sichuan in the various hospitals treated the wounded 64,040 people (including the seriously injured 12,587). Of these, 7,050 were treated in Chengdu, Mianyang City, treated 23,035 people, 11,246 people treated in Deyang City, 14,398 people treated in Guangyuan City, Aba treated 834 people. Disaster area medical institutions have 4,240 beds available reserves. The central finance has allocated 200 million yuan to disaster areas where emergency personnel were injured; funding 200 million yuan for the purchase of emergency medicines and medical supplies; funding to send 30 million yuan for medical costs related to subsidies. :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080515_779997.html

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Rescue / hospital treated the wounded 64,040 people in quarantine will be Baogan

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As at 10:00 on May 15, emergency medical teams dispatched to 6107, and the scene where the injured 23,449 people, and Sichuan in the various hospitals treated the wounded 64,040 people (including the seriously injured 12,587). Of these, 7,050 were treated in Chengdu, Mianyang City, treated 23,035 people, 11,246 people treated in Deyang City, 14,398 people treated in Guangyuan City, Aba treated 834 people. Disaster area medical institutions have 4,240 beds available reserves. The central finance has allocated 200 million yuan to disaster areas where emergency personnel were injured; funding 200 million yuan for the purchase of emergency medicines and medical supplies; funding to send 30 million yuan for medical costs related to subsidies. :tiphat: http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?h...ww.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080515_779997.html

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[Such a stark contrast to post 46.....]

School collapses in focus as China buries quake dead

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on officials to ensure social stability as frustration and exhaustion grew among survivors, many of whom lost everything and are living in makeshift tents or in the open air.

Anger has also focused on the state of school buildings, many of which crumpled, burying hundreds of children, when the quake struck, prompting China's Housing Ministry to order an investigation.

"We ate some corn, but now we are suffering from diarrhea after drinking water from the ditch for two days," said a Houzhuang resident surnamed Liu.

He said more than 90 percent of the buildings in his village, in the hard-hit county of Anxian, were flattened.

In the village of Houzhuang in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the area worst hit by Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake, residents said they were coping on their own, with aid and troops yet to reach them.
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"The focus is on saving lives, and they say food and a place to live are small issues as long as you're alive," said Fan Xiaohua, who was organizing volunteers at a relief coordination centre in Mianzhu. "In fact, they are very big issues right now."
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There were concerns as well about epidemics if the dead were not soon buried or cremated.

"We are in urgent need of body bags," Bai Licheng, a Communist Party official in Sichuan's Yingxiu, told Xinhua.

"Air-dropped food and drinking water are limited and far from meeting the demand," he added.

Bodies were lined up along the town's riverbank in Yingxiu, where more than 3,000 soldiers were searching for survivors.

The Ministry of Health issued a notice ordering bodies to be cleaned where they were found and buried as soon as possible, far from water sources and downwind from populated areas.

Bai said bodies were still trapped in the debris and blocked roads meant that heavy lifting gear could not get through.

Hundreds of damaged dams have also raised fears of collapse or flooding that could inundate towns and cities that are already struggling to recover from the quake.

The country's top economic planner allocated 53 million yuan ($7.6 million) on Friday in emergency funds to assess the damage to reservoirs.

China has asked the United States for satellite images to help locate victims and identify damaged infrastructure. In Sichuan and neighboring Chongqing, reservoirs have been damaged, some dams have cracked or are leaking water, and officials have warned the full extent of the hazard was as yet unclear.

China was accepting foreign help to bolster rescue efforts in the disaster, the deadliest since up to 300,000 people were killed in a 1976 earthquake in the northeastern Chinese city of Tangshan.

The first foreign rescue team, a group of about 60 people from Japan, reached Sichuan on Friday. China has accepted further offers of rescue teams from Russia, South Korea and Singapore, the Foreign Ministry said.



"Now we've been trying to get things out of the debris to use, like clothes, but we're very frightened that there will be another earthquake, so we have to be very careful," he said.

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Latest official data show that, as of 16:00 on the 16th, Wenchuan caused by the earthquake death toll reached 21,500 people, injured 159,000 people and buried 14,000 people.

Chart with breakdown of Regions, at the site.

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China survivor describes chaos after the quake
FirstPerson interview: American living abroad shares his story

Editor's note: Stephen Evans, an American in China, shared his story with msnbc.com after his brother, who lives in the U.S., told him that msnbc.com was seeking readers' stories to flesh out coverage of the disaster.

Two days after China's devastating earthquake, Stephen Evans stood in a courtyard outside his Sichuan province apartment complex, whispering into a cell phone as his wife and two-year-old daughter slept in a nearby tent......

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The Ministry of Agriculture allocated 300 tons of agents and equipment to prevent zoonotic disease outbreak

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The Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture veterinary answering a reporter's question China's Li Jinxiang net Nan Yang photography

At 16:00 on May 17, 2008, the State Council Information Office on four Chuan Wenchuan earthquake disaster and earthquake relief in the fifth held a news conference. Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chaoan on the current situation of agriculture and animal husbandry, agriculture earthquake relief, the supply of agricultural disaster areas, zoonotic disease prevention and agricultural production, such as the situation and answering a reporter's question. The Ministry of Agriculture also attended the conference, Chief Economist, the market and the economy Secretary Zhang Yuxiang and the Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture veterinary Li Jinxiang. The State Information Office news conference by Secretary Guo Weimin chair. China's network broadcast live. Click into the text Record>>> picture Record>>>

Aiming at the community is very concerned about the epidemic prevention work in progress in the disaster areas, and difficult measures, Wei Chaoan said: "This is a major issue, but also the agricultural sector of the earthquake relief work in the most urgent and important task." Ministry of Agriculture The Secretary for further veterinary Li Jinxiang answered a reporter's question.

Li Jinxiang, in the aftermath of the earthquake disaster, the Ministry of Agriculture promptly sent to the affected areas to understand the Group quarantine infected areas, to take measures. Our survey of the founding of the past, major natural disasters, particularly earthquakes and floods over, there will be major zoonotic disease epidemic.

Li Jinxiang that evoked the epidemic number of factors, involving animals: First, because a large number of livestock in the earthquake directly in the course of post-earthquake killed or missing due to lack of water and feed issues such as death, each animal is a bacteria and The breeding of the virus will damage the environment. Second, the earthquake destroyed the local natural environment, some of the bacteria in the soil, such as Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium tetanus, this type of bacteria can survive in the soil inside a few years or even decades, because of surface damage, these bacteria Exposed the outside, very easily lead to infection and livestock. The third is due to reduced resistance to animals, the survival of animals is likely to become virus spread of germs in the media. The fourth is the environment in the presence of bacteria and viruses easily through food, drinking water and wounds caused by infection of humans and animals. According to expert analysis, the threat of more human and animal diseases, such as viruses, for example, as bird flu, Japanese encephalitis and rabies; major category of bacteria have anthrax, tetanus and Streptococcus suis, and so on. 。 In addition, there is a class of parasitic diseases, such as swine cysticercosis, schistosomiasis, and so on. Comprehensive take these factors into account, the Ministry of Agriculture expert group from the present 12 kinds of commonly used in conventional disinfectants elected four kinds of smaller environmental pollution, human and animal no harm, sanitizing effect of a strong disinfectant for the disaster areas.

Li Jinxiang disclosed that as of today, we have allocated to the affected areas in Sichuan has 300 tons can be diluted 200 times the disinfectant; Also according to the needs of disaster areas, prepared by nearly 800 tons of disinfectants, will be redeployed to the disaster areas . We also allocated to the disaster area emergency protective clothing and disinfection of machinery, tents and other necessary appliances and equipment.

Li Jinxiang that the main objective of the disaster areas: First, we must timely disposal of dead animals and in a timely manner to disinfect the environment, to ensure that no animals died due to post-disaster caused zoonotic disease outbreak. At present, the main measures taken to the death of animals is safe disposal. 。 According to statistics yesterday, Deyang, Sichuan Province, Mianyang City, eight, died of live pigs, 792,800. 。 From outside the disaster areas, the death of livestock and poultry, to stay away from deep water.

Second, we need to do a good job in disinfection. In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health has set up a coordination mechanism, one aspect of the information, disinfecting medicines, disinfection equipment in the sharing of resources. On the other hand, in the relief process, the health sector in the core areas hardest hit by environment within the disinfection work in the field; Youwaixiangnei follow-up disinfection of the agricultural sector.

The third is to send some experts in the affected areas to strengthen disease surveillance, the situation is a timely visits.

The fourth is to strengthen publicity and do a good job of self-protection officers. Mainly due to anthrax, tetanus and diseases such as Streptococcus suis infection through wounds, once the wound, it is necessary to immediately disinfected, if necessary, to use antibiotics for treatment.

Finally, Li Jinxiang, said: "We firmly believe that, through unremitting efforts, we can ensure that no major disaster areas of zoonotic disease."

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Quake damages water conservancy facilities in Sichuan, 3.62 mln people affected

CHENGDU, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The water conservancy facilities in southwest China's Sichuan Province were seriously damaged in the magnitude 7.8 quake and the losses were estimated at 5.2 billion yuan (about 740 million U.S. dollars).

As of 11:00 a.m. Saturday, 88,615 water source facilities had been destroyed, affecting 3.62 million people in the province, according to statistics of the provincial water resources department.

The quake also destroyed 7,635 kilometers of irritation canals, affecting crops on nearly 224,000 hectares of farmland. The damaged power transmission lines in the rural areas added up to 1,978 km, affecting 1.16 million people.

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<SMALL>(Boxun - May 17, 2008 </SMALL> VOA U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Leavitt said that the United States is helping China's efforts to prevent the earthquake occurred Monday after the outbreak of infectious diseases.Levitte Minister to visit China to discuss food and medicine safety. This issue has recently become a priority because there are reports that imports from China contaminated by chemical raw materials used in the production of blood diluted drug heparin, the United States and other countries led to dozens of patient deaths.

* Containment of infectious diseases for the urgent issues *

However, Levitte said that since Monday, the earthquake has taken place in China, he this week in Beijing and Shanghai to meet Chinese officials hope that the discussions he and another more pressing topic.

He said: "I have today met with Chinese Minister of Science and Technology. He told us some of the experts consulted in the event of major natural disasters after how to contain the spread of infectious diseases proposals. When the normal system after the destruction, we will worry about infectious diseases Problems. "

Levitte said that following natural disasters in the number of days, the regional outbreak of the issue will be more and more. He said that China is particularly interested in understanding how the U.S. government in the Katrina hurricane prevent the occurrence of the epidemic.

He said: "We selected this area in particular, experienced experts, this afternoon, we started a consultation exercise."

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* Commended the Chinese Government's response to the earthquake *

U.S. officials praised the Chinese Government's response to this disaster. Levitte said that in his view, it is obvious Beijing has used all available resources.

Heparin on the pollution problem, Levitte said, the United States and Chinese scientists agreed that the samples have been contaminated. He said the two sides more controversial is whether the composition of such adulteration has caused the deaths. <!--bodyend--> (Boxun.com) :tiphat:
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No major outbreaks of epidemics reported in China quake zone



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Source: Xinhua | 05-17-2008 15:28

Special Report: Strong quake jolts SW China

BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- There have been no major outbreaks of epidemics and other public health hazards in China's quake zone, the Ministry of Health said Saturday.
The ministry said 34,000 medical workers and disease control staff were working in the quake-stricken areas in southwestern Sichuan Province by Friday evening.
As of 20:00 Friday, hospitals in the province had received 116,460 patients including 15,858 severely injured people, according to the Ministry's latest report.
As of 00:00 Saturday, the blood stations across the quake zone kept a total of 3.17 million milliliters of blood, which was sufficient for medical use.
The ministry has also sent 3,059 medical workers including 319 professional epidemic control workers to the quake zone by Friday afternoon. A total of 485 ambulances have arrived in the quake zone from outside Sichuan.
Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang vowed on Thursday to prevent any epidemic outbreak after the disaster and said local governments at all levels in Sichuan have worked out plans for disease prevention.
A system for the monitoring and reporting of epidemics, food poisoning and other public health events on a daily basis has been put into place in the quake zone.
Pamphlets for the guidance of first aid and disease prevention in quake zone were distributed among medical workers.
The standard process of disinfection for food, drinking water and living environment was also listed in the pamphlet, in addition to the proper handling of victims' bodies and the prevention of mosquito and flies. :tiphat: http://www.cctv.com/english/20080517/103957.shtml
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Disaster / earthquake victims nearly 230,000 tents urgently needed 2.6 million
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[Sing Tao network - State Information Office at 16:00 on the 17th held a press conference, issued four Chuan Wenchuan earthquake earthquake relief work as progress: According to statistics, as at 14:00 on May 17, four Chuan Wenchuan earthquake has caused 28,881 deaths nationwide , Injured 198,347 people. A total of 227,228 casualties. Disaster areas materials shortage, the initial estimated 2.6 million needed tents. >> Casualties in the long table as disaster relief as the number of the latest rescue situation
According to vice governor of Sichuan Cheng-Yun Li, ending at 16:00 on the 17th, Sichuan, a total of 5,210 aftershocks, on the whole are showing a trend of ups and downs of decay. Up to now, in Sichuan Province caused by the earthquake killed 28,300 people, injured 188,100 people and buried 10,600 people, Deyang City, which killed 10,290 people, Mianyang City killed 9,640 people, 4,130 people died in Chengdu, Aba 2140 people died, more than 2060 people died in Guangyuan City . From the rubble to rescue 33,434 people. >>
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Health and epidemic prevention work has been in full swing, with a total of Health dispatched a contingent of law enforcement and quarantine more than 167 passengers, there is no major outbreaks of infectious diseases and public health emergencies.
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