Posted on 05/07/2007 9:54:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
May 8, 2007
China Tells Little About Illness That Kills Pigs, Officials Say
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG, May 7 — A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but international and Hong Kong authorities said Monday that the Chinese government was providing little information about it or the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused death and illness in pets in the United States.
The lack of even basic details is reviving longstanding questions about whether China is willing to share information about health and food safety issues with potentially global implications.
The Chinese government — and particularly the government of Guangdong Province, which is next to Hong Kong — was criticized in 2003 for concealing information about the SARS virus when it emerged in Foshan, 95 miles northwest of Hong Kong. After SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, spread to Hong Kong and around the world, top Chinese officials promised to improve disclosure.
But officials in Hong Kong, at the World Health Organization and at the Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday that they had been told almost nothing about the latest pig deaths and that they had been given limited details about the apparently unrelated problem of wheat gluten contamination.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Cehcked for hearing and cant find it.
Thanks for the ping.
“I’m no expert, but bird flu was my first thought.”
H5N1 was my first thought, too - influenzas are known to incubate in swine and poultry populations. It may not be the H5N1 variant, but flu is a definite possibility...
Mankind's fault.
Flooding in the Central Plains of the U.S.?
Human caused climate change.
Anywhere on earth things seem sort-of normal? It's only because the dreadful effects haven't made it there yet.
[never mind the fact that both drought and flooding are realtively "normal" occurences, hence the words themselves having long been in existence]
And George Bush isn't doing anything about it! Bush is destroying the environment! (/dimwit mode)
Good for you!
Note: FDA sent the following "reminder" out yesterday:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking this opportunity to remind food manufacturers of their legal responsibility to ensure that all ingredients used in their products are safe for human consumption.
Good to know!
Please keep the information coming...I read it all even if there is no reply.
Might be a good thing if it killed all their pigs.
I think you are correct...
Here we go again.
“Farmed fish fed contaminated material”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_he_me/food_contamination
Meanwhile Romney talks about “partnership with China.”
Duncan Hunter is the strongest candidate who understands the China threat on all levels.
Thanks for the post.
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