Concerns raised on China's global health disclosures

Rainscents

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Tue May-08-07 01:17 AM
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Concerns raised on China's global health disclosures

Source: International Herald Tribune Asian/Pacific

HONG KONG: The international and Hong Kong authorities said Monday that they had received little information from mainland Chinese officials about a mysterious ailment killing pigs in southeastern China or about Chinese wheat gluten contaminated with plastic scrap, raising questions again about whether Beijing is willing to share data on global health issues.

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/pigs.php

This is very importatn information pig's are dying in large numbers by unknown illiness.

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Adsos Letter

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Tue May-08-07 01:29 AM
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1. Well, judging from what I remember of the way they

Edited on Tue May-08-07 01:31 AM by adsosletter

remained so secretive about what was happening with the Bird-flu in their country over the last two or three years I think, unfortunately, that this is pretty much par for the course with them. The WHO has always had a difficult time getting them to be transparent about communicable disease issues in China, especially those which pose the potential of pandemic.

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sam sarrha

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Tue May-08-07 04:14 AM
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2. Swine Flu..??

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