Posted on 03/10/2020 7:25:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Chinese authorities have confirmed an outbreak of hepatitis A in northeastern China, in the coastal city of Dalian and in the border city of Dandong, not far from North Korea.
Chinese news service Jiemian News reported Tuesday the cities have witnessed a rise in hepatitis A cases, amid an ongoing state effort to contain the new strain of coronavirus.
Chinese health authorities confirmed the latest epidemic after people began to raise concerns about a hepatitis A outbreak on social media. Authorities also described the outbreak as "scattered," or "sporadic," indicating the cases were small in number, while not disclosing statistics.
"Rumors about people getting hepatitis A from eating undercooked seafood have been going around the city for 10 days," said Zhao Dafu, a resident of Dandong.
Liaoning Province's health committee said Monday on its homepage hepatitis A is a "small epidemic" that comes and goes "every three to five years."
Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable, communicable disease of the liver and is usually transmitted person-to-person or through fecal-oral transmission.
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Does that show no cooking oil or fuel to cook? Eating raw as starving?
When I was traveling to China one of the discussion points was always not to use the communal chopsticks at resteraunts due to Hepatitis transmission.
What could possibly go wong eating with communal chop sticks?
Actually it was using communal bowls of food and dipping into them with your personal chopsticks. I got fully vaccinated before going to China.
That’s it! No more SUSHI!.......................
Yes, and the Chinese government has been both forthright and honest about other diseases
which occurred within their borders in the past, right ?
Also, they have a 'Free Press' to distribute information to the masses of their population, and not just government propaganda.
For those of us with shortened memories.
For example: SARS, MERS, H1N1, avian flu, porcuine (pork) flu, poultry influenza, and now, the Wuhan Canonavirus, etc., etc... sarc/ off.
I think that the headline is supposed to mean that the outbreak is small, and not the Hepatitis A?
Editing, a lost art.
“...Chinese authorities have confirmed an outbreak of hepatitis A...”
PANIC!!! PANIC!!! PANIC!!!
Oh no, we’re all going to die!!
China - Earth’s Petri Dish
That as well - but some places actually had communal sticks as well - they get washed after use...most of the time, but I’ve seen some customers just put them back when they were done. I always carried my own in a little case.
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