Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Bird Flu Site Is Clearing House for Avian Flu Information

Bird Flu Beacon has account of an declared camouflage and under-reporting of bird flu in China.

December 6, 2005 – Bird Flu Beacon (http://www.birdflubeacon.com) has been created to acquaint professionals and the accessible about the advance of a abeyant pandemic. The website appearance both the latest bird flu account and applied tips for preventing infection and for aegis in case of infection.

Recently the website acquaint account of a altercation in China, which has been accused of under-reporting animal bird flu infections and deaths. Dr. Masato Tashiro, a virologist alive with the World Health Organization, appear in a affair with his colleagues that there were 300 deaths and 3,000 humans abandoned in Hunan arena based on unconfirmed, actionable letters he acquired in Hunan.    

Boxum.com, a Chinese website, aswell fabricated this claim, abacus bags accept been quarantined, and human-to-human transmissions accept occurred. The website appear 77 deaths of workers who were allowance ascendancy H5N1 in banty in Liaoning province. Shanghaiist.com, in their November 28 issue, offers a photo of an declared academic government certificate giving instructions to abolish and ascendancy bird flu reporting.

Official Chinese sources put the amount of deaths at two. Whether the Chinese government is affianced in a camouflage or the advertisement arrangement for H5N1 is awfully inadequate, the after-effects are the same: under-reporting.

Under-reporting of bird flu infections in China and added Southeast Asian countries gives a apocryphal faculty of security. The columnist frequently letters that beneath than 130 humans accept been adulterated with H5N1 aerial flu and beneath than 70 accept died worldwide. The low numbers are based on accepted numbers only.

There are astronomic problems in acquisition accurate data, according to Dr. Shoshana Zimmerman of eHealth Institute and a architect of Bird Flu Beacon at http://birdflubeacon.com/

*   Farmers advertisement bird infections are acceptable to accept their flocks dead and lose their livelihoods, even accepting larboard destitute.
*   Few farmers and rural villagers accept medical services.
*   Doctors may be green in bird flu symptoms.
*   Getting a sample to a lab for H5N1 appraisal is bulky and expensive.
*   Countries which address ample calibration outbreaks can apprehend to acquaintance boundless agitation and bread-and-butter loss, as occurred with SARS.

“It is about extraordinary that China should accept alone 2 bird flu deaths if bags of workers are apparent to ailing birds through China’s bird anesthetic program. Under-reporting has common implications, and is evocative of the flu catching of 1918 which dead 20-50 actor people. In 1918 the accessible was accustomed apocryphal assurances, and the blackmail minimized and under-reported until a communicable could no best be denied. Bird Flu Beacon was created to advice accomplish abiding this does not appear again,” Dr. Zimmerman added.

About Bird Flu Beacon: For absolute information, anxious analysis, and bird flu account you can assurance go to http://www.birdflubeacon.com. The website appearance the latest bird flu news,a map tracking its path, and applied tips for blurred accident of infection or accord with bird flu if it comes to their hometowns. It aswell appearance a blog, http://bird-flu-blog.blogspot.com/ which letters account and commentary.

Contact:
Laurie Grace
615.385.8143

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