Editorial- China must do more to stop its latest bird flu

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/editoria...st-bird-flu/V3eQFJ1T9g65zQzShJU66L/story.html

editorial
China must do more to stop its latest bird flu

May 01, 2013

...By all accounts, including that of the World Health Organization, the Chinese government and state media have been more open about the spread and genetic makeup of the disease, encouraging citizens to share information. The Chinese government has also taken some preventative measures, going so far as to close down poultry markets.

Still, it remains unclear how the virus is being transmitted. More than half the patients have had no contact with poultry, and China believes that some cases were the product of human-to-human transmissions. This week, the number of cases appears to have peaked, which could mean that China is succeeding in limiting further transmissions. Nonetheless, the new Chinese government could be doing more. The Chinese Center for Disease Control suddenly ? and without any announced reason ? made the decision last Thursday not to release an English-language version of the relevant statistics and facts in this developing case...

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Editorial- China must do more to stop its latest bird flu

from article:

...the Chinese are in the best position now to come up with a vaccine, but would clearly benefit from seeking help from the United States, which has been successful at developing vaccines for flu strains in the past.

The writers may not be fully aware of China's vaccine producing capacity. In 2011, there were 30 companies with a productioin capacity of 1 billion doses annually.

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