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I posted this on the Marburg thread but was told this is a good place to post it also.

To those that wish to form a Bird Flu surveillance project thread...This story should scare you.....Marburg is scary but at the moment it pales to what is going on in Asia.

HONG KONG: More than 10,000 people, mostly children, have been suffereing from flu symptoms during an outbreak in southern China during the weeklong Labor Day holiday according to media reports.

The victims had symptoms including runny noses, cough and fever.

More than half of the 10,000 people who contracted the virus were children, the report said, adding that a hospital in the city of Shenzhen had to set up temporary beds to accommodate nearly 700 children admitted daily during last week's holiday.

A man surnamed Shen who answered the phone at Shenzhen's health department said he didn't have information on the outbreak.

Asian countries are vigilant about flu outbreaks amid warnings that bird flu could mutate and become easily transmissible among humans, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions.

Bird flu has killed 52 people in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia since it began ravaging poultry farms across Asia in late 2003, but there have been no signs of human-to-human transmission so far.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1102486.cms

I like the last paragraph the best. When have you heard of 10,000 people getting the flu in the same week? The case for human-to-human transmission is made in this article and the MSM ignore the facts and just report what the government says. Just proves that reporters are among the dumbest people on the earth.

and a second post..

The above is dated 05-08-05 but if that isn't enough look at this posted 04-11-05.

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.

April and May are probably the hottest months of the year in the South of Vietnam.

Thus, the children have lost a lot of water from their skins and are easily immune to respiratory illnesses, said Dr. Nguyen Duy Tien from Pediatric Hospital I.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=6087

But you know mass infections of thousands of children happen every day. Right? There is no human-to-human transmission of a flu strain that humans have no immunity going through South Asia like wildfire is there? So the question is this, Do you trust the media and government to tell you the truth and facts? If you do I have a bridge you maybe interested in buying....they would rather you know about the runaway bride or Jackson

One final note. What do you think would happen to this Economy if tens of thousands of people could not go to work at the same time in the same city. If parents had to call off to stay with sick kids. If schools were canceled to prevent spreading of infection. In this just in time inventory system that America runs on it could be a nightmare. p.s. I can just imagine the law suits being filed if an infected person died in a gym because there wasn't enough beds in the hospital.