77 dead in China Liaoning?
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China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet
2005/11/21
In Liaoning Province of China, 6 people were infected with H5N1 Avian Flu and had died recently, according to Nov. 20 report by an overseas Chinese language news site, Boxun, quoting the article posted by a poster.
Six victims were 4 students in Beining City, 1 epidemic-prevention worker, and another person whose identity is unknown. According to the post, the number of dead people from H5N1 Avian Flu in Liaoning Province has reached 77, including the six new victims. Furthermore, at one of domestic Chinese Internet site, the name of 14 migrant farm workers killed by Avian Flu were published on Nov. 19.
According to the post at Boxun.com, government gives monetary compensation to victim's family in return for not divulging the nature of victim's death. However, if it gets ever revealed, not a single cent of compensation would be given, and would be arrested for endangering social order and security.
Of the 6 dead, the family of epidemic-prevention worker were given 240,000 yuan($30,000), and other victim's family were given 120,000 yuan($15,000). Those families who got less complained to Beijing government, and this led to the news leak to others.
The number of people who were suspected of Avian Flu and underwent a medical test or were quarantined for a short period of time has exceeded 150,000. Furthermore, rumors are spreading in the local area, which say that Avian Flu can now spread from person to person. This plunged the local residents into panic. The number of infected people in Liaoning Province is estimated to exceed those of Qing-hai Province during the previous Avian Flu outbreak(a few months ago.)
The name of 14 dead victims were published in a post at an Chinese domestic Internet site called 'Tienya Forum.' It said that most of the dead were farm workers from Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui Province, who were working at the area of Liaoning Province where Avian Flu is raging. The poster who published the list said that he did so in order to inform the victim's family of what happened. Its detail are as follows:
According to migrant farm workers in Liaoning Province, most of them has died from H5N1 Avian Flu or been placed in quarantine. If a person dies from Avian Flu and he does not have his family in the local area, he was immediately cremated, leading the victim's family to believe that he is just missing. Due to tight information control, I could only obtain the names of 14 dead victims. The list is as follows. All died from H5N1 Avian Flu and their bodies were cremated.
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116 people quarantined in Liaoning Province
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Highlight:
A new outbreak of bird flu in China has resulted in 116 people being quarantined in the Liaoning province after news came of the third outbreak in two weeks in the region.
Original source:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/10/D.../D8DPJGGOE.html
Summary:
* Authorities in China said Thursday they have quarantined 116 people in northeastern Liaoning province after two new outbreaks of bird flu there.
* Kuwait reported the first two cases of bird flu in the Gulf region but said it would not do the tests to determine whether they were caused by the deadly and virulent H5N1 strain.
* The country has imposed quarantines in other bird-flu afflicted areas but in at least one case residents were restricted only from leaving their village.
* Authorities also disinfected homes, water wells, and streets within 2 miles of the latest outbreak sites on family chicken farms in Liaoning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
* The latest outbreaks of the H5N1 virus in the cities of Jinzhou and Fuxin in Liaoning began Sunday and killed 1,100 chickens on the family farms, the Agriculture Ministry said.
* China has not yet confirmed any cases of human deaths from the H5N1 strain, which has killed at least 63 people elsewhere in Asia.
* But it has asked the World Health Organization to help it determine whether bird flu killed a 12-year-old girl who died in a town where there had been an outbreak.
* The latest outbreaks in China added to concerns that fake bird flu vaccines for poultry were threatening public health after officials reported an unapproved product was sold in Liaoning province, site of the three most recent outbreaks.
* Sheik Fahd Salem Al-Ali Al Sabah, the head of the Public Authority, told reporters the first case was found in an imported peacock at the airport quarantine center.
* The second case, probably a migrating wild fowl, was found on the beach, he said.
* The entire Middle East region has been worried about possible outbreaks because the region sits on important migratory routes for birds.
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Bird Flu Mutates, Transfers to Mammals
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=55827
Politics: 28 November 2005, Monday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the avian flu virus is mutating and is already transferring to mammals.
So far there have only been a few cases of human-to-human transfers of the virus, but they had happened in bird farms.
China has announced that for 20 days specialists have been testing an anti-bird flu shot. However it would be at least two years before an effective bird flu prevention vaccine appears on the market.
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Птичий грипп мутировал у человека
Екатерина ГАМОВА, 28 ноября, 19:23
Согласно данным Минздрава КНР, в Китае абсолютно точно установлены факты мутации вируса птичьего гриппа. Представитель министерства Мао Цюньань сегодня официально заявил, что в Китае от больных людей выделены штаммы вируса H5N1, которые по своим свойствам отличаются от таковых, выявленных у заразившихся этой болезнью на территории Вьетнама. Однако, он также сообщил, что данный факт пока не является поводом для серьезных опасений, так как эта мутация не изменила геном вируса до такой степени, чтобы позволить инфекции передаваться от человека к человеку.
Напомним, что согласно одна из теоретических научных гипотез выражает худшие опасения ученых. Согласно этому предположению, в ходе многократных пассажей среди птиц и людей вирус H5N1 может особым образом мутировать и приобрести свойство распространяться среди человеческой популяции, например, воздушно-капельным путем. Следовательно, в таком случае по способу передачи он станет похожим на вирус обычного гриппа, который, как известно, имеет довольно широкую область циркуляции. Это может иметь очень неблагоприятные последствия для человека, ведь заболевание, вызываемое вирусом птичьего гриппа, вполне может протекать в тяжелых формах. Кроме того, пока наука не располагает достаточными сведениями о возможном спектре осложнений и перехода заболевания в хроническую форму.
Контролировать и, тем более, предупреждать процесс возникновения мутационной изменчивости в популяциях вируса, осваивающего все новые и новые территории, практически невозможно даже при помощи самых современных достижений в области вирусологии, молекулярной биологии и генной инженерии. Получается, медицина почти бессильна перед природным напором птичьего гриппа. Сейчас врачам остается только дальше совершенствовать процедуру диагностики заболевания, расширять спектр противовирусных препаратов и готовиться к новой атаке H5N1, пока вирус еще относительно "миролюбив", и нет риска заразиться птичьим гриппом через полотенце или поцелуй.
Постоянный адрес статьи:
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2005/11/28/499332.shtml
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Мутация птичьего гриппа пока не передается от человека человеку
Минздрав КНР сообщил 28 ноября об установленных в Китае фактах мутации вируса птичьего гриппа у человека. Представитель министерства Мао Цюньань заявил, что "выявленный у заболевших в Китае людей штамм вируса H5N1 отличен от того, который был обнаружен у заразившихся этой болезнью во Вьетнаме". Вместе с тем, он подчеркнул, что "мутация недостаточна для того, чтобы позволить инфекции передаваться от человека к человеку", передает ИТАР-ТАСС.
Согласно одной из научных теорий, вирус птичьего гриппа может мутировать настолько, что сможет передаваться между людьми, как обычный грипп.
Постоянный адрес новости: www.regnum.ru/news/551359.htm