From The Standard: The 12-year-old girl who died from flu- like symptoms after apparently eating a sick chicken in a village in Hunan province was not infected with bird flu, a mainland health official said. Hunan health department spokesman Kang Ping said Thursday “preliminary” blood samples taken from the girl and her 10-year-old brother, who […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: China said a fresh outbreak of bird flu was free of any human infections, but three people on a French island off Africa were being tested on Wednesday in what were thought to be the first suspected human cases outside Asia. “These three people who all traveled to Thailand have visited a bird […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABCNews.com: The deadly bird flu virus has dominated headlines around the world, but China’s own home-grown outbreaks remain largely taboo in the country’s state-controlled media. While China has been praised for prompt reporting to international agriculture and health organizations, its media has been mostly silent, showing limits to its transparency that could […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Three hours. That’s the maximum it should take for a bird-flu outbreak anywhere in the country to be reported to Beijing. The exacting timeline is part of a contingency plan hammered out by the Ministry of Agriculture to counter possible outbreaks of the potentially-fatal influenza this autumn and winter.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will close its borders if it finds a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu there, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Saturday, while a defiant Taiwan said it would copy a patented antiviral...
Read MoreFrom CBC News: China reported a fresh outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu on Wednesday amid new reports of the avian illness in Russia, Romania and Macedonia. China’s state news agency, Xinhua, reported Wednesday that 2,600 birds died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s northern region. Xinhua said the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: As governments in North America and Europe grow increasingly worried about the possibility of a global epidemic of bird flu, one crucial player is China. Yet for now, much of what the country is doing to manage a possible epidemic is a mystery. China is not only the world’s most […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Telegraph: The Chinese government has failed to provide global health agencies with vital information on recent bird flu outbreaks – caused by a lethal mutating virus that experts say could rapidly spread around the world and potentially kill tens of millions of people. Three outbreaks of avian flu have affected western China […]
Read MoreFrom The New Scientist: In the spirit of the 1930s Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko, China is ignoring science it finds inconvenient. The head of the ministry of agriculture’s veterinary bureau, Jia Youling, has rejected research on bird flu published in the journal Nature last week by Yi Guan and his colleagues at the universities of […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China must be more transparent in its efforts to control the spread of the bird flu virus, and curb the use of human antiviral drugs to treat poultry, a senior UN official said. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech said the reported use of human antiviral […]
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