Posted on 04/11/2005 1:04:09 PM PDT by Diogenesis
1000's of Children in Ho Chi Minh City with Bird Flu Symptoms
Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have been filled with thousands of children who have caught respiratory and digestive illnesses due to the hot weather.
Pediatric Hospital I reported that it had examined nearly 4,000 children patients a day with some 85 per cent of them suffering from respiratory problems, said a hospital doctor.
Meanwhile, more than 3,000 children were brought into Pediatric Hospital II on Monday. One-third of the children had respiratory problems and 300 others had digestive problems.
Besides, many children have been hospitalized for brain diseases caused by the entero virus.
The major reason behind the illnesses is that children are sleeping all night with fans on due to the hot weather in recent days.
Recombinomics Commentary: The deafening dearth of data in Vietnam may have ended.
The number of children alone would be cause for concern, but large numbers of patients with respiratory and digestive illness and "brain diseases". in
Vietnam ring alarm bells very loudly.
Serious H5N1 testing is indicated, although results from Quang Binh, Haiphong, and Quang Ninh have not been reported.
Bird flu monitoring in Vietnam is well beyond scandalous.
We are less than two years away from a massive pandemic, my guess is 40% of the worlds population is going to perish soon.
Between the Congo and southeast asia, sterilizing any potential microbial material brought back from space probes like in the Andromeda Strain becomes a moot point.
Good thing we are buffered by two oceans.
I pray you are wrong.
Not good when people are in 4 int'l cities a dat via plane travel.
ping
It is 20 hours from Siagon to La by air.
Two oceans means nothing in this day of global travel.
It meant nothing in 1914 (or whenever that flu pandemic happened) either.
You for got your sarcasm tag. <///>
You can just feel it brewing, both Africa and Asia are brewing some serious stuff, and it's about to break Oceans will not protect us at all because the political will to isolate our country in case of an outbreak does not exist, better a billion or two perish than offend somebody. I've been watching these stories for a couple of years now. My "gut feeling" is that we're very close.
Viruses cross oceans in a single bound.
Exactly where the 'perfect storm' of the new H5N1, which infected an entire family of five in Haiphong possibly signaling H5N1 has finally achieved efficient transmission to humans
and the new Marburg ends up depends on jets and vigilance.
If worse came to worse, we could quarantine our nation. Still think a virus could travel trans-ocean w/o a human carrier?
You thoughts on a pandemic?-ping
By the time the politicians get the will to do that thousands will be dead.
All we are buffered by is a 15 hour plane ride.
That will ease the oil demand.
---if the Yellowstone Caldera doesn't get us first--
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