World media see China: The fear of bird flu and information
December 21, 2011, the Hong Kong health workers slaughtered chicken at a wholesale market.Chinese Ministry of Health reported that January 22, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province a man suffering from flu treatment died. This is less than a month's time, a second Chinese bird flu deaths. The news around the world attention.
China's official Xinhua News Agency reported 23, said: "Reporters learned yesterday from the Ministry of Health, Guiyang Medical College Hospital, 19 patients admitted to one case of fever, 22 by the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control, China CDC laboratory confirmed human infection in high- pathogenic avian influenza. at 12:30 on the 22nd, the patient rapidly increased, blood pressure, sudden ventricular fibrillation, after she died. "
News reporting on this disaster, the Chinese official media in accordance with usual practice, to a "bad turn into something good," "a disaster and the state party was the party good, socialism is good" type of positive publicity that theme. Xinhua News Agency reports that:"After the outbreak, Guizhou Province Health Department's attention. In accordance with (Communist Party of China Guizhou Province) provincial government requirements, under the guidance of the Ministry of Health, and actively carry out epidemic prevention and control, to treat the patient, further on-site epidemiological investigations of close contacts under medical observation, enhanced surveillance, good knowledge of human avian influenza prevention and control of public education work, to issue "Guizhou Provincial Health Department on the strengthening of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control of the emergency notice" requiring local really good job in preparing bird flu prevention and control. "
* China and the world's bird flu *At the same time, the international media coverage is more concerned about the avian flu epidemic in China, the specific problem.
Major U.S. newspaper "The New York Times" published on Monday, 23 in Beijing correspondent Mike Silva Burns reported that the latest bird flu victim was a 39-year-old man, "December 31, Guangdong Province Shenzhen adjacent to Hong Kong a 39-year-old bus driver has died of bird flu death in both cases was remarkable because the two deceased have not been reported with poultry before the onset of exposure of human bird flu is believed to the virus through contact with poultry, eggs or feces infected poultry, but experts said that if the bird flu virus mutate into a form more easily transmitted, it could lead to bird flu pandemic. ""The World Health Organization released a report that a worldwide bird flu virus is believed to lead to 582 people infected, including 343 deaths; China has 42 people infected, 28 deaths in China has ranked first in the world as much poultry; In rural China, poultry in close contact with people, so China is seen as a major breeding bird flu to Vietnam, 60 people reportedly died of bird flu, raising ducks, including last week a 18-year-old farmer death one person has died of bird flu in Indonesia also. "
Japanese public television NHK Japan Broadcasting Association website reports released on Monday, 23, said: "China is now the time when the first lunar month holiday, Chinese New Year people to return home or travel, movement-intensive, the Chinese government is intensifying vigilance, preparedness the spread of infection."* Why is bird flu panic *The reason why so many countries of bird flu many people are concerned and even frightened, mainly because of bird flu mortality rate is very high (in the world for nearly 60%, compared with nearly 70% in China); In addition, experts fear the bird flu virus mutate, leading to the virus more easily transmitted between humans, leading to similar to the 1918 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions of deaths disaster.
At the same time, as the world's principal source of bird flu, Chinese authorities are often involved in concealing the epidemic and major public life and safety information, the Chinese public and the outside world can not exactly understand the actual situation in China, no doubt increased the number of people panic.
Towards the end of 2002, when a high mortality rate emerged in China's new SARS epidemics (SARS, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in abbreviation), the Chinese government carried out a full range of information blockade, leading many people unknowingly the case of illness, spread of SARS this country in the world, many countries in the world caused severe economic losses. To this end the Chinese authorities strongly criticized at home and abroad.
In 2008, China concealed the news of the tainted milk, leading to millions of Chinese children to become victims. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao later admitted that milk affects 30 million children in China. China's official recognition of six children died, and to prohibit Chinese civil case about the incident and conduct an independent investigation and claims activities.
In the issue of bird flu, Chinese authorities have done is so many people inside and outside China are suspicious and skeptical.In 1997, first discovered in Hong Kong bird flu can infect humans. Hong Kong bird flu first discovered the source of infection believed to come from mainland China, but China did not timely report on the epidemic. In mid-December last year, again in Hong Kong from mainland China poultry in bird flu virus, but at the same time China's government-controlled news media did not report.
This situation led Guan University of Hong Kong microbiologists complained: "10 years, Hong Kong has always found before someone infected poultry of avian influenza virus, but the situation is the opposite on the mainland, they would seem to wait until some disease, and go to guess the source of the virus this unconscionable. "
Guan Yi is the world's leading bird flu virus research authority. Major U.S. newspaper "Washington Post" reported that in 2005, he led a track influenza viruses in China, the research team found that inland wild birds in Qinghai Lake of avian influenza virus. Chinese authorities in May of that year, his team closed the Qinghai Lake area, so that they can not where the spread of avian influenza virus long-term monitoring.
* Horror * no benefitH5N1 avian influenza virus infected a high mortality rate, plus the virus may mutate, causing it to spread in humans, therefore, this virus experts fear, it also caused many people to panic.
At the same time, there are many public health experts believe that excessive fear and panic more harm than good, because this fear and panic will lead to social resources and attention focused on bird flu, but more of a threat to public health and environmental problems are diseases been neglected.
These experts point out, for now, bird flu virus has to go through several stages before mutates into a human to human transmission; In addition, avian influenza virus infection despite a high mortality rate, but at least for now, number of people infected is relatively very limited number of deaths and few, but the annual seasonal influenza infection and death of a small fraction.
For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control Center released a report, said: "It is estimated that U.S. residents each year an average of 5% to 20% of seasonal influenza, more than 20 million people will be hospitalized due to complications from influenza in 1976 to 2006 30 years between the years in the United States the number of deaths from influenza in 3000 to 49,000 between. "
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