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China Stonewalls WHO on SARS Virus -- Identity of Guangdong Medical Professor Revealed
NewsPundit.net ^
| 4/1/2003
| Douglas Oliver
Posted on 04/01/2003 11:38:52 AM PST by ex-Texan
Chinese Government Stonewalls WHO on SARS Virus, But Identity of Guangdong Medical Professor Revealed
This morning there was news from Jeff Gittings, who is a reporter from Guardian Unlimited . The reporter had just returned from China and his report is shocking.
The Chinese are still stonewalling World Health Organization officials who had requested visits to sites where the SARS virus had originated. Guangdong Province is apparently under a complete information lock-down. Quoting briefly from the Guardian report:
* * * On March 28, after a week in Beijing, the WHO team finally thought it had secured permission to visit Guangdong. Although some information has been passed to the team in Beijing about the original outbreak, much more could be gained on the spot.
Three days later, a WHO statement said only that "discussions concerning a visit... to Guangdong province are continuing". A reported pledge by China to issue daily updates on the spread of the virus had also not yet materialised. * * *
However the identity of the medical professor was learned along with a few details about the initial outbreak of this mystery disease and the strange coronavirus which has been identified as the cause:
* * * On February 21, Liu Jianlun, a doctor from Zhongshan University, arrived in Hong Kong and was quickly admitted to the Kwong Wah hospital.
Mr Liu warned that he was suffering from a "very virulent disease" but no immediate alarm bell rang. Several guests at the Metropole hotel where he had stayed for one night flew home - to Singapore, Toronto and Hanoi - where they spread the infection.
Over the next weeks, 77 medical staff and students were struck down at the Kwong Wah hospital: 50 hospital workers were infected in Hanoi. Mr Liu, the "patient zero", died on March 4.
It is not known whether Mr. Liu was engaged in medical research on the coronavirus at Zhongshan University. What we do know is that the former Sun Yat- Sen University was recently expanded by a merger with Zhongshan Medical Sciences University in November. The university is located in Guangzhou, Capital of Guangdong Province. For those who are interested in Chinese trivia, Guangzhou is also known in China as "the City of Flowers".
To this independent reporter it is very suspect that when Mr. Liu was first admitted to the Kwong Wah hospital he warned the staff that he was suffering from a "very virulent disease" . . .
How did Mr. Liu know that he was a carrier for this new mystery flu? How did he know that it was so incredibly virulent? And why did he travel to Hong Kong? Certainly, it was not merely to seek medical treatment because he worked at a medical sciences university.
To paraphrase Mr. Gittings, to the Chinese "Denial is the Cure" for this mystery disease. Thanks to China's obsession with secrecy and "saving face," perhaps in the future Guangzhou will be known as "the City of Flowering Viruses."
(Excerpt) Read more at newspundit.net ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: beijing; china; guangdongflu; hongkong; liujianlun; metropolehotel; mysteryflu; patientzero; reporting; sars
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posted on
04/01/2003 11:38:53 AM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: ex-Texan
May I ask why USA isn't quarantining ALL people returning from China and Hong Kong?
2
posted on
04/01/2003 11:41:34 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: ex-Texan
Guangdong Province is apparently under a complete information lock-down. I wonder if people are dropping like leaves over there.
3
posted on
04/01/2003 11:43:50 AM PST
by
struwwelpeter
(kuda ukhodit detstvo? v kakie goroda?)
To: cyborg
Just heard a plane from Tokyo is on the ground in US Airport- with six ill people aboard. Not sure where or other details. This is getting bad. I think it was clearly Chinese designed biological "attack". But then, my tinfoil hat fits real well.
To: struwwelpeter; ex-Texan
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posted on
04/01/2003 11:46:02 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: ex-Texan
Thanks to China's obsession with secrecy and "saving face," perhaps in the future Guangzhou will be known as "the City of Flowering Viruses." This is too harsh. The reporter should know that all cultures are equal; please read him his rights.
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posted on
04/01/2003 11:49:17 AM PST
by
TopQuark
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
But then, my tinfoil hat fits real well.
* Umm... I beat you to it. When I was twelve, I went outside in a raging thunderstorm with a tinfoil cap. I believe my brains picked up the electrical discharge. Never the same since then.
Thanks. I posted the link to the story. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.
7
posted on
04/01/2003 11:49:21 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Perhaps it was just a test .... testing, testing, testing ...
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posted on
04/01/2003 11:50:38 AM PST
by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
To: ex-Texan
Bump for reference
9
posted on
04/01/2003 11:51:24 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
(Athanasius contra mundum!)
To: ex-Texan
BUMP!
To: ex-Texan
BUMP!
To: ex-Texan; cyborg
I agree with you re: TEST. Very well could be. See what our reactions are - and those around the world. See how bad the panic level gets among "the masses" - that is the goal. EIther for this WMD or the next one. The Chinese don't play fair, do they?
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
That's San Jose. Two or three threads going -- I'm too lazy to find a link, check the right side of the screen.
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:04:35 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
To: jiggyboy
Got it - thanks.
To: ex-Texan
Captain Trips says!
BUMP!
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:10:34 PM PST
by
Stopislamnow
(Because tomorrow we'll all be dead and won't be able to)
To: ex-Texan
It was just reported on FOX News that an American Airline flight (128, I think), had four passengers with SARS-like virus on the plane. The passengers were taken via ambulance to Sacramento. The flight eminated from Tokyo.
I tried to post an article, but my abilities have always been limited in that area.
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:12:57 PM PST
by
Slip18
To: ex-Texan
The man was in HK to attend a wedding.
To: ex-Texan
Who wants to bet China loses half their population over this. They don't have the resources or medical facilities to handle something of this magnitude.
To: ex-Texan
You don't stonewall unless you have something to hide--like a germ warfare laboratory.
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:32:20 PM PST
by
wildbill
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I think this Bio-weapon came from North Korea,and China knows it,might explain why China is so P*** Off at North Korea and JUST CUT OFF there OIL SUPPLY !! think about that?
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:53:38 PM PST
by
Orlando
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