Here is the link for the other site as well, which includes the Summary for Dec 6
There you are…I was just getting ready to do that! ;-)
Better Bird Flu Detection Planned China Dec.7
New equipment to help detect potential bird flu cases is to be installed at all the city’s border points.
This is an interesting article. If someone has the time could you please post part of it and add a link. Thankyou.
China: Better bird flu detection planned in Shenzhen New equipment to help detect potential bird flu cases is to be installed at all of the Shenzhen’s border points. All checkpoints will have infrared thermograph systems from January, the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau announced during the visit of two World Health Organization (WHO) experts Tuesday.
The infrared thermograph system, developed by the inspection and quarantine bureau, has been trialed at Luohu Checkpoint since last December.
Winter is the high season for bird flu and wintering migratory birds arriving in Shenzhen also put the local center for disease control and prevention (CDC) on high alert for the deadly virus.
According to the quarantine bureau, the new thermographs will be first installed at Huanggang Checkpoint, the soon-to-open Futian and Shenzhen Bay checkpoints and Shenzhen airport.
More on this story (and the equipment) at http://www.newsgd.com
guess that link is right…it wasn’t complete on that new site
that’s the correct link….had yo actually go over there & click it open to copy it….wonder why they don’t put whole addresses over there….I’m mainly too lazy to dig stuff out but for you, Witness, I went the extra mile!:-)
Thanks so much I’m-workin-on-it.
Viral Fever sweeps Jaffna northeast—Jaffna,India Dec. 7
Just about a week ago there were 5,000 people sick, now there are 15,000. This is a city of less than 200,000.And in total there are 100,000 sick with this in Sri Lanka.This fever has flu like symptoms and is spreading very rapidly according to reports.
Thousands affected by this virus fever were admitted to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital for treatment. Kanagalingam Sarmila 23 years of Urelu who underwent treatment for this fever has passed away.
So, there are reports of death and it has also spread to the Maldives.(An island nation southwest of Sri Lanka) People are said to be starting to panic.
Witness do you have a link to this story? I don’t see it on any of the other forums. Thanks.
Tink— There has been a posting almost daily on this forum for about a week and some links have been posted by others. I don’t know how to post links,but you can google anyone of these titles for more info.
New viral fever hits Maldives
Anomalous fever runs rampant in Maldives
Viral Fever spreads in Jaffna
Viral fever sweeps Jaffna northeast
And anything with fever and Sri Lanka in the search.Thanks
More from that area-----CPN fighters suffering from diseases in cantonment in eastern Nepal
Pneumonia and fever are spreading in a temporary camp of armed forces of the Communist Party of Nepal,the Himalayan Times reported on Thursday.
Hundreds of our comrades are suffering from fever and respiratory as well as skin diseases. (There are 850 soldiers staying in the camp)
And More---Unknown disease Stalks Meghalaya.India Dec.7
Malaria,along with an unknown disease with similar symptoms,has taken 169 lives in the Jaintia Hills ,according to official records.”Malaria and other communicable diseases are ‘uncommon’ at this time of year.”
People are apprehensive about the Mysterious disease that combines symptoms of high fever with diarrhoea.
The state director ruled out any possibility of deaths caused by dengue.
He agreed that the mysterious deaths are indeed worrisome.
Please google title for more info.
Unknown fever in Maldives: the symptoms of the virus included high fever, headaches, achy joints and muscles, dizziness, nausea, weakness and outbreaks of pimples. Some said it’s chikungunya, but others said not.
Viral fever sweeps Jaffna - link for witness
witness, I didn’t find anything but plant disease when I googled Meghalaya.
You do such a great job at finding these stories. Do you copy some sentences with your computer or by typing them in? If you use your computer, with apple + c or control + c, then you can copy the address at the top of the story the same way. If it isn’t too long, it will fit, like the Jaffna address I did. If it’s long, you can do this thing: link description? where the second part is whatever you want to name it “link description” and the first part is the long address you copied. There’s a vertical line in between them, and 2 brackets on each end. No spaces in between any of it, except if you want them in the “link description” you make up. The vertical line is on the keyboard above the enter/return key. It gets easier with practice.
Thank you witness and Jane
The wiki computer system made a change in what I wrote, of course. I forgot to leave spaces so it would ignore the “computer, please make a link” instruction, and show you what it looks like. It’s at the bottom of this page, in the blue part, where it says link_url.
Thankyou Jane and Tink ---Jane for the Meghalaya story go to google news and type in the title of the article. I am most likely the most computer illiterate person on fluwikie.And I’m a novice typer.I just type in sentences from each article.Jane, you have given clear and simple instructions that I most likley won’t be able to follow.The only reason I am able to find these articles is it’s kinda like shopping.And I am really good at that.That’s the only reason I learned to use the computer at all.I will try though. Thankyou both.
Mysterious Diseases Nepal Dec. 7
Just recently,another mystery disease struck the mountainous region of eastern Nepal. A number of inhabitants of a Himalayan village came down with something that nobody has been able to figure out. People started becoming sick and died.
witness, you type all this? You’re so industrious. I’ve been taking the easy way and bluing out a sentence or address with the cursor/mouse, then apple + c for my mac, then apple + v on the wiki page. Once I hit something wrong, and I got 2 pages on the screen. I got scared and did something to make it go away. But maybe it would make copying easier if both pages were there at the same time. I just make one overlap the other, and switch back and forth, though.
OK, I’ll do google news this time.
India: 169 dead, 134 from unknown cause. Dengue has been ruled out. Some cases tested positive (but they didn’t say for what). Link to witness’ story:
Dec. 7, 2006 16:15 | Updated Dec. 8, 2006 0:09 Six-year-old dies from virus in Hadera By JPOST.COM STAFF
A six-year-old boy died on Thursday afternoon in Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera as a result of contracting a virus.
The boy was brought to the hospital in the morning in critical condition. His condition then rapidly deteriorated, and doctors were unable to resuscitate him.
Nepal mysterious diseases: from witness. Lighthearted article, joshing about level of drinking improving govt. cash flow through excise taxes, wave of fainting sweeping the land, something about their mystical heritage,…then a village where people were dying from an unknown cause. Not so funny anymore.
VERY SCARY Illness Investigation -Cedar FAlls Dec 7-Iowa
Something is making some eastern Iowans seriously sick. Health officials say many of the people they are treating have come to the ER with flulike symptoms. To prevent the spread of disease,they’re asking only immediate family visit patients right now. It could take two to four days to get lab tests back to confirm what’s exactly causing this illness.
More info— please google title
witness, Diarrheal illness, parent says e.coli, doctors say don’t know yet.
And This, Hot off the press— 3 flu strains appear in Iowa earlier than expected-Dec.7
Kevin Teale, a state health depart. spokesman says it’s not known if the early appearance of multiple strains is a harbinger of things to come.He said it is unusual for the emergence of three strains this early in the flu season.
Norfolk County Canada Norview lodge closed to visitors
A respiratory outbreak has caused the doors at Norview to be closed to visitors. 13 residents and 9 staff members at the lodge are experiencing symptoms of cough, fever,runny nose and sore throat.
Witness and day after: I appreciate all your recent posts, but find it very hard to locate the original stories to verify or find out more. I hope you can try copying and pasting the URL’s as Jane suggests. Thanks for all your work and investigations!!
Could one of you please post some of this on your new Forum? The numbers of sick and dying is very important and appears to not be receiving the amount of attention it needs.
Anon_451
I did a quick copy and paste into the news forum over there. Hopefully it will get attention and more people will reswearch it.
Anon_451 has asked me to comment on the diseases being mentioned on this thread. First, let me say I am certain there are probably deaths that are due to H5N1 that have not been identified as such due to the many other diseases in Southeast Asia with similar symptoms. However, after looking at the various news stories, I don’t see anything that points unequivocably at H5N1. When I first started following H5N1, I too would get alarmed at the many “mystery deaths” in this part of the world. And that was over a year ago. Unfortunately, there are more “fevers” in India and adjacent regions than there are names for the diseases. Sanitation is poor, ignorance rife and health care for the poor virtually non-existent. So, I would not get too alarmed by these stories. I think they are worth following, but just keep in mind that the background level of disease and death in poor tropical areas is very high. Deaths often go undiagnosed. This is what will make identifying the start of a pandemic so difficult if it begins in this region. The “signal” will have to be very high.
Monotreme - Thanks!
Jumping from India to Iowa. Quite a leap. Thanks for the reality check