[saveliberty]

One of the news organizations was giving China great praise for the speed in which it produces flu vaccine.

But the death rate raises these questions--

How safe are the vaccines?
Why is the vulnerability in China so much higher?
Does this relate back to SARS?
Why was the vulnerability in China so much higher for SARS/

[dawn53]

Most Chinese come in contact with poultry everyday of their lives, at least those that shop for food for the family. Seems to me that this would put the Chinese at increased risk for catching the avian flu from the birds themselves.

Open air markets are full of live poultry, and most Chinese shop at open air markets, even in the "big cities."

In the case of SARS, I believe that it was also traced to a open market in Guanghzou and was thought to have been contracted from a certain type of wild animal for sale there.

[kajingawd]

Cos China is making this shyte up...they are the manufacturers of these ( viruses )...

[Natural Law]

China still has deplorable health and sanitation practices. For the most part, they exist on poor diets and are exposed to environmental toxins and pollution not imaginable by those of us in western countries. Markets are full of live exotic animals and home grown poultry and produce. The use of "night fertilizer" is still very common outside the major cities. Add in a little over crowding, lack of basic medical care, unaffordable medicines and superstition and you have a recipe for disaster.

[television is just wrong]

they live with their chickens and catch the stuff.