Man Detained For Bird Flu Rumors on WeChat
Reuters reports that a man surnamed Zhou has been detained for causing panic with a graphic rumor...
Read MorePosted by Natalie Ornell | Feb 13, 2014
Reuters reports that a man surnamed Zhou has been detained for causing panic with a graphic rumor...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 5, 2014
Less than a year after the first human deaths from the H7N9 avian flu virus were reported, at...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | May 17, 2013
Four more deaths have brought the total number of fatalities from the H7N9 bird flu to 36. Yet despite these deaths, there is evidence that the virus is not spreading as fast or as widely as many feared. From Al Jazeera: The...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 30, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. State Council Information Office Department of Internet News Coordination: All weibo and blog...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Apr 12, 2013
Xinhua reported on Saturday that a seven-year-old girl has become China’s 44th confirmed H7N9 sufferer, and the first in Beijing. The child is being treated at the Beijing Ditan Hospital, and is in stable condition, Zhong...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 10, 2013
As of April 10, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). • Masanjia Women’s Labor Re-education Camp (马三家女子劳教所): An investigative report on the camp, which exposes...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 5, 2013
The April 5th edition of CCTV’s flagship evening news program News Simulcast did not mention a word about the H7N9 strain of bird flu, which has already claimed six lives. Instead, it dwelt on the tidal bore coming up the Amazon...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 4, 2013
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 31, 2013
The New York Times reports on the H7N9 virus, a new strain of bird flu that has so far killed two and left another ill: Two men have died here after contracting a strain of avian flu that had not been previously found in humans,...
Read MorePosted by Melissa M. Chan | Feb 24, 2013
Chinese state media report another patient has died after having contracted the H5N1 influenza virus, also known as Bird Flu. From Xinhua: The second of two people confirmed by the Ministry of Health to have contracted avian...
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