Okay Fred......

Now we're talking here. Maybe ATS members will start to contriubte local stories that don't make the MSM. This would be an excellent way to monitor and possibliy alert others to what is going on.

Any response from Dr. N?

gman,

I'm afraid to say that the mainstream news articles are kind of pointing toward this being Ebola as well as they are reporting that the infected people are "showing signs of bruising" which would be indicative of this type of virus.

*Valhall heads off to worry more*

PerterPan our resident translator has issued this...

Clarification on the Official Press Release Concerning the Sichuan Outbreak


1 - 58 cases and 17 deaths

In reality, 219 people have been quarantined, 113 checked / examined / tested, 67 symptomatic cases, 23 suspected cases, 12 confirmed cases, 31 fatalities, 17 of whom died in hospital, the remaining 14 died elsewhere. Puzzling how these figures got turned into the number officially released.


2 - Medical Expert: No Human-to-Human Transmission

Doctors interviewed could not ascertain if human-to-human transmission was taking place. Further investigations were underway. The statement was made merely to reassure the public.


3 - The Public Health / Hygiene Bureau, Ministry of Agricultural and local government is following the matter closely.

This is, in fact, masking the forced quarantines, under-reporting and hiding of case figures and the restrictions place on the media.


4 - No environmental pollution.

This outbreak is responsible for the many pig carcasses lying around. Many of the carcasses also include home bred poultry of the edible variety.


5 - No bleeding observed.

This is a lie. All fatalities were observed to have internal haemorrhage and "poisoned" symptoms. (? i've no idea what that means, "poisoned symptoms" is the literal translation, rather beyond my level. sorry.)

Boy I wish we had someone "on the ground" for this. Although I would not blame anyone for NOT going...

Originally posted by Valhall
gman,

the infected people are "showing signs of bruising" which would be indicative of this type of virus.

*Valhall heads off to worry more*

H5N1 also presents with "dark/purple bruising" as was the 1918 pandemic.

This is very distrubing...like a shipwreck with no lifeboats and the steward holding all of the lifejackets for himself.

(ref: Dr. Niman)
Commentary
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China Closes Lab Isolating and Sequencing H5N1 Bird Flu

Recombinomics Commentary
July 26, 2005

A laboratory jointly run by universities in Hong and China said on Tuesday it had suspended studies into the H5N1 bird flu virus after Beijing issued new guidelines which triggered fears of a crackdown on academic freedom and independent research into the deadly disease.

The new rules were issued on May 30, five days after the Joint Influenza Research Centre sent an article to the international journal Nature which said that infected wild birds in western China might have picked up the virus from poultry farms in southern China.

A day after the article was published, Jia Youling, director general of the Ministry of Agriculture's Veterinary Bureau, criticised the findings and said no bird flu had broken out in southern China this year.

The closing of an independent lab in China is cause for concern. The lab has been doing H5N1 research in collaboration with Yi Guan's lab at Hong Kong University. The publication in Nature clearly demonstrated that H5N1 was present in 2005 in eastern China, even though China had filed no OIE reports in 2005 prior to the May 21 report on Qinghai Lake. Subsequent reports were filed on outbreaks in Xinjiang province, but there are still no reports of H5N1 in China in 2005 east of Qinhai Lake.

The 2005 isolates from Shantou in Guangdong Province were of particular interest, because five of the eight genes were virtually identical to the corresponding genes from Qinghai Lake isolates, clearly demonstrating a relationship between the H5N1 tarnsmitted betaeween two regions in China. The lack of the PB2 mutation E627K in isolates outside of Qinghai Lake supports the notion that the isolates in Shantou may be from earlier Qinghai Lake infections instead of precursors of the Qinghai Lake isolates. However, the relationship demands more study.

China's actions strongly suggest they want to control and withhold vital information regarding H5N1 in China. The sequences will like be appearing throughout Asia and Europe via migratory birds wintering in China and Russia, but samples collected as the H5N1 evolves this season will be particularly important because of the lethality associated with Qinghai isolates and the H5N1 endemic to much of Asia, including China in general and Guangdong Province in particular.

The Qinghai isolates, as well as isolates from Vietnam, share many polymorphisms with isolates from Guangdong province. Independent studies of this region should be increased not decreased.

The timing of the new announcement, in view of the 20 isolates deposited at GenBank and Los Alamos (which included all 12 isolates collected at Qinghai Lake), as well as the virulence of the Qinghai isolates, increases concerns that there is a raging pandemic in China and information on H5N1 is being withheld.


Should'nt this kind of action be deemed unaceptable by the international community? Where is the SC from the UN? There has to be a united action from all countries to force China to come clean and allow inspectors into the affected areas..

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