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China's Bird Flu Jumps The Border As First Case Confirmed In Taiwan

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While precious little space has been dedicated in the US media to what remains an uncontained epidemic of the H7N9 bird flu in China, cases continue to spread even as the number of deaths mount, taking at least 22 reported lives at last check. Things just got from bad to worse, as the bird flu is now following in the footsteps of the 2003 SARS breakout, with the first reported case outside of China hitting newswires overnight.

The SCMP reports that "Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China. The case involves a 53-year-old man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. He showed flu symptoms three days after returning to Taiwan via Shanghai, the Centres for Disease Control said, adding that he had been hospitalised since April 16 and was in a critical condition." Considering the lack of transparency of the Chinese government one can only guess, literally, at what the true morbidity and mortality statistics of the flu epidemic are, which is perhaps the main reason this ongoing story for the past two months has so far evaded major coverage. However, as more and more cases are reported outside of China, the world will have no choice but to start paying attention, especially with the WHO announced that "This is one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far."

From NBC:

A new type of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China since March is one of the most deadly strains of influenza known, international health experts said on Wednesday.

 

"This is one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Assistant Director-General for Health Security. "We are at the beginning of our understanding of this virus."

 

The H7N9 strain appears to spread more easily to humans than SARS, another type of bird flu that started killing people in Asia a decade ago, experts said.

 

"This is an unusually dangerous virus for humans," added Fukuda, who was speaking in Beijing alongside leading flu experts from around the world. 

 

The group of experts made an impressive display of international cooperation, but at the same time admitted just how little is known about the virus that has infected 108 people since March.

 

"We are at the very early stages of this investigation," said Dr. Nancy Cox, who heads Influenza Division at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "There's a lot to be learned.”

 

He said a few family clusters have been found, which could be the result of exposure to the same source of virus, or limited person-to-person transmission.

 

But he said: "'Evidence so far is not sufficient to conclude there is person-to-person transmission. Moreover, no sustained person-to-person transmission has been found.”

 

The experts concluded that live poultry markets were the most likely source of infection.

 

The experts praised the swift action of Chinese authorities in closing live poultry markets, and said it was "encouraging" that there have been no new cases in Shanghai since its markets were shuttered.

 

And they called for continued international cooperation against a virus that doesn't recognize borders.

 

"The risks of an outbreak situation are shared in a globalized world, where we are all interconnected," said Fukuda.

Taiwan, already paranoid about China's microbial exports, would beg to differ.

The latest interactive H7N9 tracking map is presented below:

 

 

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Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:10 | 3492144 TeamDepends
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Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:16 | 3492158 TeamDepends
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They're coming to take us away ha ha ho ho hee hee

GHOULISH DISCOVERY!  Fema prison found???  Mass Grave Preparations...        on youtube.  Sorry, still working on link.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:19 | 3492162 TwoShortPlanks
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Go Chinese exports....next, Japan.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:25 | 3492172 Never One Roach
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This problem is nothing to Sneeze at.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:39 | 3492193 i-dog
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Good grief! ... This is serious! ... 22 deaths in 22 days! ... Alert the Media!!!!!

One should prefer to catch bird flu rather than seasonal flu - which causes an average of about 250 deaths PER DAY, each and every year, in China alone!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:42 | 3492200 espirit
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@ZerOhead

Thanks for the link, something to keep another eye on.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:13 | 3492298 francis_sawyer
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All that radiation in the Pacific oughta kill it before it ever hits California... So the MSM needs to grab ahold of that angle and assure all the soccer moms that their kids are SAFE, & tomorrow they can go on text messaging as usual...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:23 | 3492367 Zer0head
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i-dogg

you fail to understand it's not the numbers (for now) it's the trend and in this case the trend is not your friend

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:52 | 3492794 New England Patriot
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The mortality statistics for this bug are concerning. Hopefully this doesn't become communicable between people. 

 

Soderbergh predictive programming.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:59 | 3492257 RougeUnderwriter
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Season flu death rate isn't any where near this bombshell. If this goes airborn, Walmart and consumer electronics / hi tech will start to eventually see supply chain interuptions. I go to work when I get the flu (sometimes if I'm not crapping or barfing)

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:01 | 3492258 RougeUnderwriter
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CDC and who seem concerned also

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:36 | 3493037 New England Patriot
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Roger Daltry hates the flu.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:53 | 3492185 TeamDepends
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Is there a fully operational death camp on the AZ/Mexico border?  Someone please help with the link.  Steve Quayle has it up.  youtube.com/watch?v=gvpB_LN-r2o&feature=

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:06 | 3492287 SmallerGovNow2
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That is a map, diagram, rendering.  it is not a real google earth shot. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:33 | 3492701 TeamDepends
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And you are?  Why would anyone put Google earth at the bottom of a "map"?  Those trees are green and casting shadows, on a diagram?  There are different colored cars parked imperfectly and FEMA busses patrolling the perimeter on a "rendering"?  Apparently, this facility is not listed as an AZ prison.  Ayers said the camps would be in the Southwest!!!!  Calling all ZH sleuths, help us get to the bottom of this!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 14:21 | 3493792 Ellis
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It's your run-of-the-mill prison.  The Arizona Department of Corrections even provides driving directions, should you wish to visit.

http://www.azcorrections.gov/prisons/Prisca_Prisons_Yuma.aspx

People need to fact check before attempting to stir up the masses.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:21 | 3493240 Betty Swallsack
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You're referencing Steve Quayle?  -1 for you.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:43 | 3493300 TeamDepends
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Right back atcha!  Does his site frighten you?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 13:19 | 3493458 TPTB_r_TBTF
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This frightens me:

 

The angel came to me and stuck his staff into my spirit and just stood there for a while.

Steve dreams about receiving an angel's hard staff

 

I donT want no angel to shove his staff into me!

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:40 | 3492195 AurorusBorealus
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This is the best site on the web to follow these very important developments.  Thank you for posting the link.  I put the same link here some months ago, and for 2 years have mentioned on this forum that the real black swan is an outbreak of epidemic disease.  Again, I reiterate that the book to read is William McNeal, Plagues and Peoples.  Humanity has been granted a respite from deadly contagious disease for 2 centuries.  The result has been a population explosion.  Every time this has occurred in history, deadly contagious disease follows...  Thank you ZH for following this story, and I hope that my contribution has alerted you to this impending development, but in reality, it makes no difference how you came to realize the importance of this.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:46 | 3492207 espirit
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I take it you didn't get your transdermal microneedle patch in the mail last week for the latest H7N9?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:48 | 3492216 Joe Davola
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:39 | 3493207 Jena
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I haven't read McNeal's Plagues and People but did just look it up.  It sounds very interesting.  You might look into Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases In a World Out of Balance. 

Edit: This is an article Laurie Garrett wrote in Foreign Policy about how China is handling the H7N9 outbreak: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/23/the_big_one?page=full&w...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:12 | 3492149 AlaricBalth
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Casey Schuler: I hate this bug.
Sam Daniels: Come on, Casey. You have to love its simplicity. It's one-billionth our size and it's beating us.
Casey Schuler: So, what do you wanna do — take it to dinner?

Outbreak

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:30 | 3492180 Race Car Driver
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You know they only make those movies so the idiots have a point of reference to quote when TPTB cue the script ... right?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:58 | 3492535 Almost Solvent
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Who cares? Most are too busy watching the Real Housewives of SomeCity or the latest on Beiber's monkey.

Plus, say what you will about joos and hollywood, but Dustin Hoffman is fun on screen, 'specially in Wag the Dog.

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:11 | 3492145 krispkritter
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This bird has flown the coop!

 

Wonder what happens if it makes it to LAX? (anyone here read Deep Winter?)

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:15 | 3492152 Edward Fiatski
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"The Worse, the Better, comrades."

Ilyich Lenin

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:16 | 3492154 FubarNation
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The super Flu Shitstorm clouds are gathering Randy.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:18 | 3492161 Disenchanted
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Chickens coming home to roost?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:22 | 3492166 Sudden Debt
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In Africa... aids was transfered to humans because they did some nasty shit with those monkey's....

In China... bird flu was transfered to humans because THEY DID SOME NASTY SHIT WITH THOSE BIRDS! I'M PRETTY SURE OF IT!

Nasty little bastards those chinese....

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:25 | 3492171 Peter Pan
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And in the USA insolvency was transferred to millions of households because THEY DID SOME NASTY SHIT WITH THOSE LOANS. I'M PRETTY SURE OF IT.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:49 | 3492214 forwardho
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Monkey rapers.

Chicken rapers.

Chicken rapers sittin right there on the group W bench.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:22 | 3492167 Peter Pan
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Sometimes you wish a flu like this could hit Wall Street and rid the world of half the vermin on the planet.

Then again they will probably announce the presence of some form of bird flu in the USA on the day they want to impose martial law.

Crowds can be easier to control when the threat is of a bird flu nature.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:39 | 3492196 forwardho
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Be careful what you wish for.

If their track record is followed, the virus will turned into some sort of flu derivative, multiplied by a factor of x100 and SOLD around the world.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:25 | 3492170 falak pema
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bird flu is the curtain raiser to derivative flu in financial markets. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:26 | 3492174 mrdenis
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Bring out the Dead ...Bring out the Dead ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:34 | 3492187 forwardho
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I'm not dead yet...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:44 | 3492202 Bearwagon
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And now for something completely different ...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:34 | 3492183 tarsubil
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This might kill millions or it may not.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:35 | 3492186 booboo
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I am buying Olive Drab military surplus bra's, cutting them in half and selling them as Army issue Bird Flu mask to the plebes. Make a fortune, buy in now while you have the chance.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:49 | 3492219 espirit
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Do they come in a Eau de Lesbos scent?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:36 | 3492188 Cognitive Dissonance
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A clear case of puting the chicken before the egg.

Wait............

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:42 | 3492201 zetsurin
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Stock market to surge on this news.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:44 | 3492203 Bearwagon
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Sure. What else would this "market" be ought to do?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:48 | 3492208 Fix It Again Timmy
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No worries, Bennie can print a vaccine.....

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:47 | 3492209 debtor of last ...
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Throw those people in the river at the first cough.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:47 | 3492210 philosophers bone
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Well, this may at least solve the entitlement problem!!  It may also solve the debt problem too if it kills off all of the creditors!! 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:50 | 3492221 Dr. Engali
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22 out of 1.3 billino? What is that like .000000001% I think there is a better chance of dying by gett.ng  sat on by an elephant.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:51 | 3492222 PUD
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A lethal pandemic would shut down the global economy. Shut it down completely. All "just in time' deliveries would stop, the supply chains would get interrupted, unemployment would skyrocket.  Already tourism to china is falling off a cliff. If this gets legs your worst nightmare will unfold very quickly. Hopefully gold will fall to less than $10 too. Would be one positive.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:37 | 3492378 Quinvarius
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More likely the dollar would become worthless.  Put a price on that last bucket of KFC...or anything else that the end of the supply chain makes disappear from the shelves.  People will realize what a fantasy it is to trade paper nothings for something tangible.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:04 | 3492566 Dr. Engali
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If the global economy dies so will the dollar; gold, silver, and lead will be the money that replaces it.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:08 | 3492557 q99x2
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Finally something to be hopeful about.

That is .0000000183 percent of the Chinese population.

When they start jumping into the Yangtze let me know.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:07 | 3492573 Cone of Silence
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buy  Masks.  Not paper masks,  you need physical masks in your posession. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:16 | 3492606 Backcreek
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Taipei, April 24 (CNA) Three hospital personnel have developed respiratory symptoms after coming into contact with Taiwan's first confirmed case of H7N9 avian flu, the Central Epidemic Command Center said Wednesday.

 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201304240039.aspx

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:21 | 3492962 Lux Fiat
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Thanks for the link.  Here is hoping that transmission has NOT gone airborne.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:31 | 3492698 IridiumRebel
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never put your dick in a chicken....that stuff ain't finger lickin'

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:39 | 3492729 20-20 Hindsight
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Be scared: even your own shadow lurks in the dark and may soon turn on you while you're asleep.

Nowadays, we need to be worried about EVERYTHING.

Bottom line: the world has turned into a global consortium of CHICKEN SHITS.  

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:05 | 3492843 Azannoth
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"bird flu that has killed 22 people in China since March" ..

in other news "regular flu killed 200 people in China since March" ...

YAWN

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:12 | 3493206 Backcreek
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More properly...killed 23 out of 123 confirmed cases or 18.7%.  What's the rate for seasonal flu?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:24 | 3493254 Jena
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It depends on the strain and which end of the population it hits, I believe.  For example, if it hits the elderly harder the death rate is different than if it hits children harder, which was the case with last year's flu -- more pediatric deaths than expected but overall a lower death rate.

The problem with H7N9 is that it's a novel virus to which no one has immunity.  That means everyone is potentially vulnerable and if it were to spread easily human to human like regular influenza, it wouldn't be just the elderly or very young who probably would suffer the serious consequences.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:09 | 3492891 falak pema
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Just for the sake of debate as part of the status quo meme being blown on this horn : 

It's Official: Paul Krugman Is Right - Business Insider

That sounds soooo definitive....

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:27 | 3492995 Hunch Trader
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SARS was supposed to be from civet cats, nothing to do with flu.

I wouldn't mind if airlines and customs turned to permanent flu screening; the bird flu scare year was very flu-free because all flu bags stayed at home instead of being at large infecting others.

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:55 | 3493365 TheObsoleteMan
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Year after year, same thing, killer virus comes out of China. Why not just nuke them and be done with it? it would solve allot of problems. Not only would we be free from all the killer virus threats, but we wouldn't have to pay back all that debt. We could even get back our industrial sector. Save $ on military expendatures countering China's growing military {Japan would be all for it, as would Vietnam and the Philipines}. Come on SAC, launch those ICBMs, send them east!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 13:36 | 3493567 lemarche
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I AM SURE MAINLAND CHINA DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO AVOID PASSING IT ON TO THEIR LOVED NEIGHBOURS......... LOL !!!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 14:29 | 3493832 MrSteve
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The bogus Dr. here is not up on darwinian ecology:

1. Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

2. Epidemiologically speaking, the disease is now "seeding" the host-target population

3. You don't wanna be part of the "harvest" from this mutation's expansion

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