Posted on 07/31/2005 11:33:20 AM PDT by datura
On July 31 (BJ time), Sichuan government has raised warning level of the so-called "Streptococcosis Suis". It warns the high risk of this disease. Government sent 50,000 immunity professionals to the region.
The message is sent through posters, before farmers did not know the disease until there were people infected around them.
By the time Boxun issues this message - 4pm (BJ time), XinHua News' web page still shows the death toll of July 30. There is only one item that was from yesterday. It seems that this warning is only for Sichuan Province.
Note to self: Dont dig up dead pigs and sell meat to customers.
Is that like pork kim chee?
Sorry so late in response to you, I've been digging around to see what I could see.
China will never admit to the actual numbers of infected. They can't.
This is getting scarier by the day. 50,000 immunity professionals.... Good god how big is this thing? Makes you wonder why no media is able to cover it.
I dont know...all I know is I read these diseased pigs were buried and some guy dug them up and sold the meat
Not good.
WHO is not generally high on my list of good guys - but the fact they are being kept out does not bode well at all.
Fine as well, thanks. You're right about the ChiComs - They CAN'T let the real numbers out. But can they stop it? I don't think so.
I did an FR search and didn't find this story. If it's already been posted, I apologize.
Even if it's as bad as all that, don't we have to go through "epidemic" before we get to "pandemic"?
I mean, 100 years ago epidemics killed a million people that no one outside the immediate area even knew about.
They may need that many professionals to cover this kind of an outbreak considering the layout and population.
Neither do I.
I read that too - the ChiCom gov't doesn't pay the farmers for their loss, so in turn they dig them back up and sell what they can.
Unlike kim chee, they don't let it ferment.
The other problem is that this disease infects birds, as well as pigs. 1918 all over again. Flies - especially blow flies - also carry this new disease. So if a truck picks up a load of dead pigs or birds (birds they tend to merely dispose of in LAKES (??????)), the flies get on the carcasses and then spread the disease.
To me, the genie is out of the bottle.
I believe it is much worse than we're hearing. China is such a closed society that if they are sending out 50,000, and are admitting to that number, we could be in for a real shocker when the numbers start to come out.
Remember Chernobyl? The Soviets kept saying it wasn't bad...till the numbers had grown so large, they could no longer keep their secret.
Plus, you've got Kazahkstan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea (they say they stopped it - (right), India, southern Russia, Mongolia, and more.
Can someone clarify exactly what streptococcus suis is? Strep is bad new any way you look at it.
OK, I read on and found the specifics...it pays to read first.
50,000. That's one third of our peak combat deployment to Iraq.
For trying to put an infectious disease back into the lab, I think Beijing must be in a panic - BIG TIME.
ping...read it all to get to the 'english' info down in the thread.
After reading this thread the Pork Roast we were going to have for dinner is now going into the freezer.......
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