Human Bird Flu Deaths in Qinghai China?

[pandemic_1918]

Human Bird Flu Deaths in Qinghai China?

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05250505/H5N1_Qinghai_Human.html

Recombinomics Commentary
May 25, 2005

>> The affected localities reveal that, as of early April 2005, there have been several deaths of migratory birds. Because of lack of reporting, the news has not traveled widely. Toward the end of April 2005, cases of human infection started to emerge. After 1 May 2005, some tourists who visited the areas were severely affected, and 6 of them died.

Because of this, Mrs. Yi Wu (Chinese Minister of Health) has cut short her visit to Japan and returned home. According to the local news in the affected locality, the number of human casualties is higher than 6.

The deceased persons are all foreign tourists (i.e. not local residents): 2 (a man and a woman) from Chengdu, and one man from Chongqing, Sichuang province. It is unknown from where the remaining casualties come. <<

The above, unconfirmed report has been posted at a Chinese language site as well as ProMed. Although not confirmed, the report contains details, as well as the names of at least two of the reported dead. The initial report from China to the OIE detailed the deaths of 519 birds representing five species at the beginning of May. The death of five species of migratory birds over such a short time span is unusual........

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1. Cover-up Attempts

Here are the initial cover-up attempts

Humans

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05250502/H5N1_Qinghai_Isolated_519.html

Birds

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05090502/Geese_Quinhai.html

[neverforget]

2. Who cares! Who is the next American Idol? Is the runaway bride

going to jail? That stuff is important! :eyes:

[amandabeech]

3. Isn't this similar to how the reports of SARS leaked out? n/t

[pandemic_1918]

4. SARS and H5N1 on ProMed

Yes, SARS and and now H5N1 in humans in China started as rumors, appeared on ProMed, and then were confirmed.

[NNN0LHI]

5. China hails 100% effective bird flu vaccine amid prophesies of doom

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK277719.htm

BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - China has developed vaccines that block the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu among birds and mammals, Xinhua news agency reported, as scientists in the west warned of a possible global pandemic killing millions.

Scientists fear that avian flu, which is infectious in birds but does not spread easily among humans, could mutate into a form more capable of passing from animals to people. snip

"Experiments show the efficiency rate of the newly developed vaccines in preventing infection by the H5N1 virus is 100 percent," Chen Hualan, director of the China National Bird Flu Reference Laboratory, was quoted as saying in an overnight report.

China's Ministry of Agriculture had given its approval, and a sales permit, for the vaccines, Xinhua said, without mentioning whether the treatments had been evaluated outside the country. snip

China was willing to provide technical anti-epidemic support to other countries and poultry farms in Vietnam had begun experimenting with the Chinese vaccines, it said.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Right. And then the virus mutates....rapidly.