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Why are the new bird flu cases concentrated in Shanghai and neighboring areas?
03-29-2014, 08:54 AM
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Why are the new bird flu cases concentrated in Shanghai and neighboring areas?
by SHANGHAI (Reuters)

Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China's health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people.

State-run Xinhua news agency said authorities planned to slaughter birds at two live poultry markets in Shanghai and another in Hangzhou after new samples of the H7N9 virus were detected in birds at the three sites.

More than 20,000 birds have been culled at another Shanghai market where traces of the virus were found this week.

All poultry trading was banned in Nanjing, another eastern Chinese city, although local officials said they had not found any trace of the bird flu virus and declared that chicken on the retail market was safe to eat, official media reported.

The new strain of bird flu has infected 18 people in China, all in the east. Six people have died in an outbreak that has spread concern overseas.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that 10 infected people were severe cases and two were mild cases. It reiterated there was no evidence of ongoing human-to-human transmission of the virus.

"More than 530 close contacts of the confirmed cases are being closely monitored. In Jiangsu, investigation is ongoing into a contact of an earlier confirmed case who developed symptoms of illness," the Geneva-based WHO said in a statement on Saturday.

There were no signs of panic in Shanghai, where four of the six people died, and people generally said they were not worried. But the culling, which has been widely publicised, did underline for some how close to home the issue had become.

"Now it's just downstairs," said Liu Leting, a user of Weibo, China's version of Twitter which has more than 500 million users.

"Suddenly I discover that I'm living in an epidemic zone!"

While the strain does not appear to be transmitted from human to human, authorities in mainland China and Hong Kong said they were taking extra precautions.

Hong Kong's government said it was intensifying surveillance of travellers and poultry coming into the city.

Peramivir is in medical trials to prove its effectiveness against type-A and type-B influenza, the administration said in a statement. The H7N9 strain belongs to the type-A group.

Shanghai authorities have stressed the H7N9 virus remained sensitive to the drug Tamiflu and those who were diagnosed early could be cured. Tamiflu is made by Roche Holding AG .

China and Hong Kong were badly hit by a 2002-2003 epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that started in China and killed about one-tenth of the 8,000 people infected worldwide.
@ Thanks to all answers, especially Lim Yuan'.

"Officials said it's nothing with the dead pigs in Huangpu River"???

CCP Officials are well-known for beingunreliability, lies and cover-ups.

"Why strangers on internets should know the answer"???

The silly CCP mouthpieces should read more Chinese Netizens' posts on Mainland's Blogs than ranting lies on here. 95% of CCP corruption, abusive and fault cases are first being exposed by Chinese Netizens. There're reports that the dead pigs in Shanghai were being mixed with weeds to feed the chickens there.
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JJJoke is operating a dozen different Yahoo Answer accounts incl SaltySilly, Margaret, Walle, EXCO on here, a super CCP big liar mouthpiece based in China with a corrupted peanut business including teaching English, helping foreigners to settle in China, by paying bribes to CCP in Shanghai/Beijing of course. He has been instructed and hired by CCP to promote CCP's stance, spread jealousy on Hong Kong and at the same time lure clients on here, typical CCP's greedy, unreliable.

About 3 hours ago, JJJoke used another YA account to pretend asking a question about "needing someone to help settling in Beijing". JJJoke answered by saying he could help and gave his email. I posted the same message as above. 10 minutes later the question + all answers got deleted.

JJJoke should give a Disclaimer. Why are CCP people and shoe-polishers stupid liars, can they act more cleverer with their evil intentions, lol?

The loads of recent travel and settling down in China quest
settling down in China questions are being raised by JJJoke's multiple accounts as a means to lure potential foreign clients and to promote his peanut business on here.

EDIT
@ Thanks to Dog Lover's answer. DL sounds more rational in her answers lately. After living in a free and liberal city?

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03-29-2014, 09:01 AM
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No one really knows, specialists studying the virus are puzzled why it has appeared in a rich area first rather than popping up in a poor area first.

It simply could be down to the randomness of evolution and it being the source point of the outbreak. As you have already pointed out birds from local bird markets were tested +ve for the virus.

Note: no foreigner could had bought it into China as WHO and Chinese flu experts say there is no evidence of human to human transmission

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03-29-2014, 09:14 AM
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The World Health Organisation doesnt know - why do you think strangers on the internet would?

Why dont you just check their website : http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/index.html It would save wasting time posting nonsensical questions
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03-29-2014, 09:20 AM
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Officials said it's nothing with the dead pigs in Huangpu River.
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03-29-2014, 09:22 AM
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The new WHO bulletin is out : http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_04_07/en/index.html They dont seem to know - perhaps the WHO has been taken over by communists

"The silly CCP mouthpieces should read more Chinese Netizens' posts on Mainland's Blogs " - of course , precious - bloggers always know more than WHO


"There're reports that the dead pigs in Shanghai were being mixed with weeds to feed the chickens there." Oh well .... REPORTS.....If there are REPORTS it must be true.I guess that proves it
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03-29-2014, 09:36 AM
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Because Shanghai is the main entry port for foreigners and their virus to come into China
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