A Chinese man returning from studying at a U.S. university has become the first suspected case of swine flu in mainland China, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday.

The ministry said the man, 30, took a flight from Tokyo and arrived in Beijing on Saturday before heading to the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province on the same day.

Officials did not specify where he studied.

The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 infections across the globe rose Sunday by about 1,000 from the previous day, the World Health Organization said.

Well then, China seems to be in the midst of the flu now.

Then again the hype has died down and were now back to not caring, but China could be a big problem due to the obviously large ammount of citizens and the tight nit areas they live in.

~Keeper

This is what I was worried about.

China has over 1 billion people, in a country I think just about the size of texas. This could really transfer back and forth through people with extreme ease.

But good thing they still have their masks left over from SARS.

China ( I think, rather heroically) braved world outrage by quarantine- and yet, in a nation of- what?- 12 time zones- and 1.6 or so billion people cannot be "safe" from a pandemic.

If the individual was in the US we have another instance of 'community' outbreak- i.e., a person became ill from someone in the states- not Mexico.

Again- the WHO is ignoring their own criteria for Level 6.

BTW, if anyone has read Garrett's article in Newsweek about this, please share. She describes the etiology of this bug extraordinarily well- going back to '05 in Wisconsin- and flatly denying that the child in Mexico was "Patient Zero". She also goes on to explain that H1N1 as it has been circulating between swine and humans for years- with a touch of avian to the mix- has been resistant to anti-virals for some time. Frankly I'm surprised the article was published, as the truth is so glaring I'd have thought the gov would not permit the truth to be told...

again-
China rounded up every mexican- put on masks and wisked them away
Indonesia- deaths unreported
bird flu- 70% death rate- hard to catch
whatever-they-are -calling -it -now -flu- low death rate - easy to catch

the evidence is clear

DNA5, corpse burning parties, and screaming mothers holding dead infants with blood vomit, eyelashes, and insects.

My sister in law was taking a summer trip to study abroad for college to China and apparently the airline(don't know which one) cancelled their trip yesterday, they were supposed to have left today. No refunds will be given either.

They did however offer to exchange their tickets to China for ones to Thailand.

She won't get credit for it, but atleast it is something.

WHO.int calls 4 confirmed in China, up from one confirmed yesterday (mainland). Multiply that by 1000 or so and we might have an accurate picture....IMHO

Originally posted by Republican08


China has over 1 billion people, in a country I think just about the size of texas.

I wish I had a picture of a facepalm

This could become huge news.

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