From the Los Angeles Times: Dai Aixiu, 41, leans against her doorpost and watches as a dozen chickens and ducks peck at small bugs beside a broken urn in the garbage-littered yard. Her front door is open, and the birds sometimes enter the house, leaving behind droppings and feathers before she shoos them out. As […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China said Sunday that the possibility of human infection of bird flu in the three reported pneumonia cases in Hunan Province, including one death, could not be ruled out, a Ministry of Health spokesman said. The spokesman said the ministry had invited the World Health Organization experts to make a joint investigation […]
Read MoreFrom ABC: ELIZABETH JACKSON: As global concern grows about the risk of an influenza pandemic, China has announced its fourth outbreak of bird flu within three weeks. More than 9,000 birds have died, and 350,000 culled after an outbreak in a county in north-eastern China. Spokesman for the World Health Organisation in Beijing, Roy Wadia, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China has begun mobilizing its 2.3 million-strong military to “defend and control” against avian influenza and to prevent it from spreading to humans, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official mouthpiece of the military, said. “Under orders of the National Avian Influenza Command Center, we will work closely with the Ministry of Health, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in its northeast province of Liaoning on Friday, the fourth to hit the country in a month. The disease has killed 62 people in Asia and infected 122 since late 2003, but in almost every case the virus is believed to […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder Newspapers: China offered the West some viral material in 2004, but it refused to do so following an outbreak among migratory birds in Qinghai Lake in western China in May. Instead, it put the detailed genetic sequencing of the virus on a secure Web site to share. Bekedam said Chinese scientists “were […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Mainland officials say they learned lesson not to hide information after Sars outbreak. The mainland has learned the lessons of the Sars outbreak and pledged complete openness as it fights bird flu in its multi-billion domestic poultry flock, a top Chinese official said, while Pacific rim experts […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: A senior Chinese official today insisted that the country has learned the lessons of the Sars outbreak and promised complete openness in its fight against bird flu. China was heavily criticised during the 2003 outbreak of Sars, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, for initially covering up the illness. Now Beijing says it […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Stuff.co.nz: Baiyangdian, a maze of reed-lined waterways two hours’ drive south of Beijing, is just the crossroads of water, birds and farmers that many experts believe could sow more and deadlier outbreaks of bird flu. The villagers here live among the marshes – boats are the only transport in and out – […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Chinese government said Friday that very few samples of bird flu virus collected here over the past two years showed resistance to a key influenza drug, contradicting complaints by international...
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