Background on He Junyao: http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320591.html
Junyao’s older sister died of a “pneumonia-like” illness a day or so before he fell ill — probably of H5N1, but she wasn’t tested and there was no autopsy.
Google-translated from simplified Chinese:
His father is not the first case of avian flu patients resume normal out of psychological shadows
November 21, 2006 05:11 10:47 Based Upon Local Area Network DAYANG Network-Guangzhou Daily
At 17:00 on November 15, 2006, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, the village pond peace group The gloom and drizzle, while the cold air, so that everyone here has come to the cold late autumn. A 10-year-old boy getting a full yard Fengpao remote control vehicles, a mischievous smile on his face from time to time. 1 kilometers away in the barren mountains, the boy’s father, a 36-year-old Hunan man sitting in a small cemetery, whispers a voice choked with sobs, the ground has not honored the son of cigarette butts.
Little boy named Jun-yao, A year ago the Ministry of Health announced the first case of infection was “H5N1” bird flu patients.
A year later, on the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital examination Jun-yao physiological indicators are normal. mischievous active character show that he has come out of the psychological shadows of the avian flu. He and his father-iron, but still deeply painful earth. During the outbreak of bird flu in the dead daughter, a night-iron-gray hair in his head the whole year.
That year the avian flu, a 10-year-old boy out of the 36-year-old father still struggling.
10 [year old] bird flu patients who [when] grow up [would like] to be a doctor
After meeting with reporters, Jun-yao very foolish to put aside the remote control in hand, looking for the key to home, like wooden door open to let reporters. On the 15th school, iron-father-mother Tanruihua not at home, he has never comes. “Uncle, take your cell phone and I called to veterans. “Go find the key, Jun-yao told reporters only come through, Obviously, he did not afraid of dealing with strangers.
Two days ago, is November 13, Jun-yao in Hunan Children’s Hospital made health examination. This is his discharged one month, three months, six months after the fourth review. Child Care Hospital, Infectious Diseases, a radiologist for his height, trace elements, blood, heart, liver and renal function, chest, CT carefully checked and found all indications were normal, but also “long by 3.5 cm high.” He promised to follow the screening of the hospital over 18 years of age.
Jun-yao told reporters that he was now in schools all normal. students do not suffer from bird flu because he drifted away from him, the closest point and personally called him, “Yao Columbia.” Jun-yao told reporters that he will grow up to be a doctor uncles, aunts helped the marines in the past his life.
Chatting, Jun-yao pair of eyes always curious about “restless” reporters to Piaozhe digital camera, occasionally to succeed in little happy face “Pixiao.” Tanruihua said after being discharged, a large bolder Yao Jun, a mischievous.
Currently, Jun-yao was reading a fifth grader, like many students, he began “to the face.” In a chat with reporters, he said that he was very brave and a man sleeping, but his mother found that he had not told the truth. Then, Jun-yao instance ran away.
Now, Jun-yao still eat chicken, eat ducks in his possession. period a year ago avian flu has been difficult to find the kind of panic and shadow. Just asked, “want her”, he immediately cried, repeatedly used his hands to Shica tears.
Daughter, 36-year-old man died overnight Baron
Yao and Xiaojun difference is that the iron-He still saddled with a heavy burden, at the age of 36. The Hunan man had half a head of white hair. Tanruihua told reporters that her husband’s hair gray overnight after the daughter-yan.
He Rail, said that now he is like his daughter every day, even in the land of the time, a daughter, he thought she was up to lay down their hoes. “I can not forget her daughter, avian flu has forgotten that the market, more than a year has passed. I can clearly recall every detail.”
In the past two years, said home-iron-like “gui” luck has been rectified. First was his wife to work in Snakebite, and then lost when his son play in the pack Yao Jun hand. Later, another category, lying in bed for more than a month.
At that time, he also fortunate son daughter Verbena (Verbena He) did not anything about it. According to intelligence, “Yeung good obedient son [daughter], good smart, beautiful 1,10. Really, she has no weaknesses, she would want me to Bantiaoming if any should happen.”
However, not long after that, fate or descend, but the family is able to endure the war.
Faced with the reporters, iron-He cried several times about the avian flu That brought untold suffering to the war.
Daughter, 36-year-old man died overnight Baron
Yao and Xiaojun difference is that the iron-He still saddled with a heavy burden, at the age of 36. The Hunan man had half a head of white hair. Tanruihua told reporters that her husband’s hair gray overnight after the daughter-yan.
He Rail, said that now he is like his daughter every day, even in the land when his daughter thought she was up to lay down their hoes. “I can not forget her daughter, avian flu has forgotten that the market, more than a year has passed. I can clearly recall every detail.”
[The article seems to repeat itself — verbatim — so I’ve skipped a couple of paragraphs here….]
“Poultry popular” put the whole family into a “war”
September 25, 2005, saw the same group of duck-iron - LIU Li-qiu large and small packages to the house started to move medicine. heard that the “duck” a blast, group after group of death, the village of veterinary medicine are no opening, and burst straight LIU Li-qiu “in frustration.”
After a few days, the iron-He found that more and more dead duck found in the village, “initially only a few. large tracts of the later. “Later, his own chickens and ducks have started playing the “sleepy.”
He-like Fe, and the village is afraid of trouble, “Wenji”, the assault on the village of his life, “Wenji” is a familiar thing.
October 6, the National Day vacation is not over yet, He Yan, Jun-yao are at home, the family chickens, ducks die more and more. He has discarded iron-feel strange Unfortunately, the dead put up the blood, salt for salt, smoked a waxing, and then open the blisters finally put in a pan attacks. Although flash-iron-heart trace amiss: “Despite the tone of the chicken”, but that day, eat a meal around the family table, “Poultry popular.”
After three days, He Yan, as usual school, and school and Light Rail He helped Tanruihua busily harvesting rice. The evening after dinner, I suddenly felt light-Rail daughter “thin, and they are not good-looking.” But everything’s daughter said: “No, eat the same meal also.”
On the 12th evening, Ho Yin began to look pale, his forehead fever, and some non-iron-think. quickly brought her to a private clinic in the town, “40.7 degrees Celsius fever! then hoists two bottles of saline. enough of the ice, the temperature is retired.”
He told Iron-daughter not to go to school the next day. He Yin did not listen to fear absent father’s words. Yan son reaches 40.4 degrees Celsius evening, a panel of doctors in private clinics, not medication, “He chef your daughter’s illness or to hospitals as well.”
“I know, Dad.” Was the last sentence of his daughter
That night, Light Rail He quickly daughter to the town hospital, but he said very clearly remember their daughter to the doctor because of dead chickens dead duck. “I suggest to all doctors before Yan took sick son dead dead duck, I expect not to the avian flu, I had a vague but feel that this may be related to eating the dead things.”
Hospitals in the town. He Yin condition has not improved, and began the black stool, stomach pain call. There, the doctor for treatment of congratulations to ordinary influenza.
On the 15th morning, losing weight and they are watching the daughter-Xiangtan Iron-shifted to the hospital for Maternity and Child Health Hospital. doctors advised him: “Hang fighting for a week, no problem, you have medical cooperation, which can be reimbursed 40%W hat has not reported to the city.” But next morning ready to go - or iron-Xiangtan City.
On the 16th morning, Ho Yin there is a significant shortness of breath, rapid heart beat, HE 1993-iron.Xiangtan City, who had 112 calls.
He never thought of Light Rail, with the ambulance to the doctor told him that Yin “to a very serious illness. his [her] life is in danger at any time.” He made iron-despair, just Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Centers daughter to the hospital received under the “notice of critical condition”.
After the rescue, it seems that He Yin, “with more improvement,” but still ended Chentiejiang told doctors: He Rail -“Severe pneumonia! child is very dangerous, or go to the Children’s Hospital. This is five to six times better than the conditions there.”
In the ambulance to Changsha, He still experienced his iron-heartbreaking moment. Due to the persistent high fever, Ho Yin has been unconscious, on the Light Rail He said, “Do you know who I am?” “I know, it is the parents.” Talking about here, Hunan - The iron-man aggressive again, “I do not know how. Yan son told me that it was the last sentence!”
That afternoon, the Yin He was taken to the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital isolation ward. The second followed a “notice of critical condition,” He iron-hand.
Then, the media widely reported the avian flu epidemic began, doctors have the Yin He felt vaguely related to this disease. “But no stringent test data, buy a conclusion.” He has only seen on television-iron bird flu terms, it did not even occur to them to try Verbena son with the “Strange Disease” has there been any contact.
The cause of death “unknown causes pneumonia”
16 evening, Light-Rail Yiyemomian wife! At this point, their only son Jun-yao mother was lying on the bed. He also engaged in the rescue Yin, every hour there will be doctors to inform them out from the isolation ward. He let iron-signing. “Every time a clinic doors are open to me tortured! I do not know what the doctor would give me news? Was delighted. or bad news? “
At 7:00 on the 17th, ward doors “to die,” the open again. Light-Rail wife held its breathing. “You daughter brain dead, from a humanitarian point of view, we also managed to rescue 20 minutes.” In fact, the process lasted 50 minutes, but was unable to open its eyes - yan.
Painful, confused and puzzled. He does not know that he is iron-asked how this statement: “I was not a dead duck dead over?” The doctors told him: “It is respiratory tract infection, but a slip of the tongue. equivalent of SARS.”
Daughter away, Ho Meng - iron, he wants Verbena son home, Changsha, but could not find a huge can send my daughter came home and car.
At 15:00 on the 17th, his daughter-Yin’s body was cremated. He regretted not to have iron-daughter has to be an autopsy. “I always think Verbena son to have died of avian flu, she saved her brother’s death, but also to save a lot of strangers. awakening of the importance of the avian flu. However, no autopsy report, no samples were sent to the Ministry of Health as an experiment No one knows Verbena son would have died of avian flu. So far, the cause of death is still open her ‘unknown causes pneumonia’.”
Sibs successive accident very similar to his daughter and son illness
He Yin in the body to the cremation market, a practice known home-iron-received a phone call. He has been to the Yin and are unaware of the practice known to run around with Yao Jun, He Yin her task is to raise sufficient medical expenses. He iron-on the phone, but then let her tears: “Do not engage in the money, I have no daughter. does not need the money.”
But they did not expect was that this time the money is still life-saving straw. He is not only to save the Verbena, but Jun-yao.
17th, He again received a practice known in the iron-Jun-yao, Tel: fever, the same situation with his sister! “You can imagine, the incident has two children, I have collapsed, have failed to stop.”
Daughter of treatment lessons, iron-He was strongly opposed to Yao Jun Xiangtan City Central Hospital, the best hospital. but insisted that sent her son to Xiangtan Maternity and Child Health Hospital. “Yes that Chentieqiang doctors familiar with her daughter’s illness, Jun Yao should arouse their attention to the disease.”
At 16:00 on the 17th, a practice known as Yao Jun Maternity and Child Health Hospital, a doctor from a quick, a practice known eagerness profuse sweating: “Yao Jun, you go! quick run! doctors will come home late, you will be told her the same way.” That afternoon. Jun 9-year-old Yao shuttled between various surgeries. Yao Jun-time may not be obvious.
At this time, the iron-bearing the ashes of his wife with her daughter finally got the car home. Home later, her daughter was missing and scrutinizing the size of the awards. He burned most of the relics of Yan and relatives, for fear iron-see-sad. He Rail couple did not send their daughters to the last leg of the journey, they wanted to, but not relatives. After many days, the iron-HE do not know where the daughter was buried.
Pain, no time, and run, is not over yet, the next morning to bury her daughter. Light-Rail wife Xiangtan City rushed to the MCH hospital, and they are worried there Yao Jun with the same outcome sister. The doctors told him: “You are the son and daughter are very similar condition.” He very clearly what it means-iron.
November Xiangtan shrouded in the shadow of bird flu
‰Ä sibs have infected “pneumonia of unknown causes,” the rapid emergence of a large area of Xiangtan local shadow of the avian flu. Bay Village pond quickly blockade. And peace groups, people’s lives have been totally changed the look. The evening of 19 peace groups within 3 kilometers around the village’s 121 households were 2,487 emergency culling of poultry. burned, buried, the village pond’s surface shed 35 tons of lime and 500 kg of disinfectant solution. Rail-and-home briefcase on October 18 killed ducks have been dug up to a burning, deep processing. Followed by the official figures show that the avian flu epidemic in the peace group, 13 families of poultry disease a total of 182 dead chickens, 363 ducks, 10 kilometers to the neighboring village six emergency investigation. coexistence caged poultry 120.5 million.
At this time, some people began to panic. On the 22nd, who lived in Xiangtan County of Changsha Cuiguodong Early in the morning, the car, 10-year-old son, brother-in-law Andrew birthday. He sat to visit relatives. Guests are brother-in-law’s next-of-kin and friends, a lot of people know him, he invited everyone as usual enthusiasm. Obviously only the beginning of a distance. Noon meal, he found a vacant seat, but gradually people around this and find excuses to leave, and finally he left.
The shadow of the avian flu maintained for a very long time, the rising influence many people, including - I-iron. A month or so later, Light Rail He had won a cold, cough, fever, the same condition as two children. “Frankly, I was very worried that their children made the same disease. Therefore, I immediately went to the car Maternity and Child Health Hospital. “However, after treatment is simply common flu. Will this still-common flu-Rail spent more than 2,000 yuan and the costs of treating heart. [I *think* this paragraph is saying that a month later, the kids’ mother came down with, reportedly, the common flu.]
Luo Ping-yan infected doctors should be clinical cases of bird flu
18 evening around 7:00, MCH hospital or his son’s doctor advised him to the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital, “is not for us to grasp, it is not the disease is not the cause, you have lost a child. Some or sent to a children’s hospital insurance.” That night, Yao Jun He was sent to the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital.
“You are not leaving how?” In the corridor of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Hunan, Chen Peng-Rail-to see a doctor. He is the daughter of Admissions doctors. “My son and his sister also won the same disease.” He answered so that the demands of the iron-shocked after time, the same family, the same illness, occupational disease is not normally sensitive to tell him this. “Chen asked in detail about my son’s medical condition, and reported to the local Center for Disease Control and Prevention.” He said Light Rail.
Jun-yao admitted to the third floor of the isolation ward. The doctors told him: “You son of the disease like he had sore hands rotten, rotten must recover to a certain extent. In two or three days to turn for the better, or worsened.” However, the doctor consoled him: “You have lost a daughter. The craving believe God will not let you lose a son.”
He iron-reassuring to wait for the doctor, and the other is 20 days.
“As a sister and brother both experienced severe pneumonia, coupled with exposure to poultry has experienced, and the rapid development of disease-yin, Yao Jun-time consultation to the fact experts thought might be thought of the avian flu. No conclusions of the Ministry of Health, but at that time, no one would dare to conclusions. Our judgment is severe pneumonia, infection seriously ill, similar to the SARS disease. At that time, some people believe that the avian flu, some experts believe was infected with the virus, controversial. It now appears that Ho Yin should clinical cases of the avian flu.” If infected doctor Luo Ping told reporters.
Infected with the nurses I have a feeling that you want to cry
It infected female nurses Chen recalled that just started a few days, Jun-yao, “the spirit is rather poor, no appetite, coughing.” And in the morning on the 21st, Jun-yao still conscious, dizziness, coughing, irritability, malaise, and not got up.
On the 23rd afternoon, Jun-yao cough a lot and emerged red-stained tissue, the nurses began to panic, “I thought it was pulmonary hemorrhage, if true, Jun-yao may be the same with his sister. “Chen woman hurriedly summoned doctors, However, the inspection results so that they heaved a sigh of relief “only teeth is some blood.” After a burst of hectic, Chen woman from isolation wards look at the windows.
Light-Rail wife downstairs in the garden, keep walking back and forth, from time to time, look upward rise. “I have a feeling you want to cry.”
October 26, the well-to-Rail Division came downstairs infection, doctors predict the three-day deadline is today. A few days ago, my son ends in death and survival among wandering. Unfortunately the same, news came upstairs, “Jun-yao of the better.”
Since then, the treatment was successful Jun-yao, on the 29th of their own will be able to get out of bed and move around. November 13, Jun-yao desegregation of patients discharged. The day after 10:00 midnight, the Ministry of Health official notification, Mainland China identified two cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 infection cases Jun-yao was one of them.
A year after the avian flu three journalists
In the course of an interview with reporters, doctors, nurses, Mom said Yao Jun is a lively, active children, discharged soon resume a normal life. Had just returned to school, teachers, students carrying flowers to greet him, not away from him because he won the avian flu. For a 10-year-old child, he seems to have forgotten that a year ago the disease.
However, in an interview with reporters learned that the disease came to a subtle change in his life. “He has now become a ‘nickname Star’, last year and was selected the top 10 news Hunan candidates He criticized how his mother and teacher, I fear the growth of unfavorable to him.” He said Light Rail.
Rail - just the opposite - but he is still sad when the death of his daughter-yan, Tanruihua, daughter dies, He has been living in the iron-memory, nowadays have turned high-tech than one be adequately Cox to find a lot of doctors who had to test and challenge insomnia. When she was in her 30s who has spent close to half of his hair white, as Xianglinsao, regular Niantao their children.
Light Rail He told reporters that he is just revitalization of the day watching her son and the wife of an increasingly ragged, feel his body as before, he was somewhat afraid that if one day they will fall.
Superficially, it seems Tanruihua intention to evade the death of her daughter, a year later, She has not been to see the graves of her daughter, the courage of rural women is deeply rooted in the heart of pain. carefully taken care of her husband and her son.
Let me take a painful dialogue:
He Yin left, Light Rail He enlarged photographs of her small, resulting in a portrait of the deceased, usually see that the words, it is his precious.
Reporter: What is your daughter go so many days, this portrait of the deceased what do you think?
Light Rail: He wears her prospects in the future Jun-yao, let him take his sister, and let him know your wife or sister and brother. After my death would not know anything, but I want to remember Yao Jun, you have a very good sister. it is your sister and save your life.
Reporter: This is not too much pressure would Jun Yao?
He Light Rail: I want him to remember his sister.
Reporter: We sailed right along, the village has a lot of people began to raise chickens, you did not support your family?
He Light Rail: Verbena son’s death blow to me too much, there is no support.
Reporter: Chuan specializing in the duck is dead, your view of him?
He did not view: Light Rail, does not view dead duck is not his fault.
Reporter: I heard that when you angry with her son, said: “Why do not you but your sister die?”
He said: Light Rail, I was so angry not succeed. In fact, I have no idea of, I think of my daughter, I could not sleep at night, very frustrated.
Reporter: villagers said, more like your daughter?
He: Light Rail is not the case, it is not because she killed anyone, but Verbena son really sensible, Every time she would help me busy farming work, but never on Yao Jun; good care of her brother, when they go home from school, Every time protecting her brother home, walk the outside, fearing his brother fell.
Reporter: What is your time to find your daughter’s grave?
He Light Rail: Spring Festival this year, they do not begin to tell me.
Reporter: Do you often see her?
He Light Rail: I think a person of her time in her grave weeping smoke, “Dad to see you. it is the parents are incompetent, and my father could not save your life.”
Reporter: He and his wife Yan’s grave you know?
Light Rail: He does not know, I am a person to bear all the pain, I never told her mother this.
Reporter: You seem to regret the grave?
Light Rail: He used his life to save her son Yin brother, saved the lives of many people, she was a good contribution to the medical field, But now no one tombstone.
Text / map Xinhua News Page Ke Xue, China Laboratory
Theresa42 – at 01:20 I’ve seen your work on many other boards and I want to thank you for your tireless efforts. The report above is oficially sanctioned by the Chinese media, makes me wonder what they are trying to accomplish with the pathos side of the story.
Theresa42 – at 01:20
Thanks! This is a typical case where the index case was never tested, so that a) a cluster is not acknowledged, and b) the no of cases are underestimated. It has happened time and again, in almost all the countries with human cases. Some people say that the CFR may be lower because of missed mild cases. While that might be true, the CFR might also be higher because of missed dead cases.
Do you have the link to the original Chinese version?
Oops, the last link is to the original. Didn’t see it.
The massive number of dead ducks is an interesting and important observation. H5N1 has evolved from being asymptomatic in ducks, to killing both wild (Qinghai) and domestic ducks, now again to being asymptomatic. Shows the full range of possibilities.
anon_22 – at 06:36 — Thanks! This is a typical case where the index case was never tested, so that a) a cluster is not acknowledged, and b) the no of cases are underestimated.
Yes, indeed! I wasn’t aware that there were some reports about the sister in the press last year (just before my bf-following time) — Dr. Niman reported on the cases here:
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10280501/H5N1_Hunan_Cluster_Concerns.html
Former HeadChopper – at 01:30 — The report above is oficially sanctioned by the Chinese media, makes me wonder what they are trying to accomplish with the pathos side of the story.
Interesting point — I didn’t even think of that. I dunno. ?? I was just focused on the point that the possibility that the sister may have had (probably had) H5N1 was allowed in the press at all now. Maybe TPTB there feel it’s really important (as it surely is!) to raise people’s awareness about bird flu as flu season arrives in China.