BREAKING UPDATE August 11, 2015 / 591 cases / 300 deaths from H7N9 . MERS CoV 1352 Cases, 479 deaths

It's in the chicken!!!!

This has potential to be really bad.
If it starts showing up in North America I might have to bug out for a bit. Can't have my family exposed to something so deadly.

Feb. 19


First male patient, 87, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).

Feb. 27


Second male patient, 27, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).

March 4


First male patient dies (Medical News Today).

March 9


First female patient, 35, from Anhui province became ill with H7N9 (Telegraph).

March 10


Initial report of over 900 dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River as of Saturday, March 9 (China Daily)

Second male patient dies (Medical News Today).

March 11


Count of dead pigs in rivers near Shanghai reaches nearly 3,000 (Business Insider).

Laboratory tests find porcine circovirus (PCV) in one water sample from Huangpu River (Xinhua News)

March 13


Officials say the number of pig carcasses in Huangpu River has risen to 6,000 (BBC).

March 14


Workers continued to haul dead hogs from a river in the Shanghai suburbs Thursday, where the pig body count now exceeds 6,600, according to the municipal government (USA Today).

Farm in Zhejiang province confesses to dumping pig carcasses into river (Bloomberg)

March 20


The number of dead pigs discovered in Chinese rivers around Shanghai has risen to almost 14,000 (BBC).

March 22


50 pigs wash up onshore in Changsha, Hunan province; ~1,000 dead ducks are also discovered (NTDon China via YouTube)

Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai river rises to 16,000 (Independent)

March 25


China pulls 1,000 dead ducks from Sichuan river (BBC).

Government officials say that 1,000+ rotten duck carcasses pose no threat to human and livestock along river banks (Xinhua News).

Illegal Zhejiang pork found in food chain (South China Morning Post).

March 26


Dumping of thousands of dead pigs linked with Chinese crackdown on pork black market (Business Insider)

More than 1,000 dead ducks, in 60 woven plastic bags, are found in Sichuan province (China Daily, Time).

March 31


The government's National Health and Family Planning Commission said over the weekend that two men, aged 87 and 27, died in Shanghai in early March after being infected with H7N9 avian influenza (AFP).

April 1


Widespread reporting about two human deaths and one severe casualty of a "lesser-known bird flu virus" (USA Today, AP).

Dr. Michael O'Leary, World Health Organization, says that there is no evidence to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people (Reuters).

April 2


Shanghai Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center tested 34 samples of pig carcasses pulled from Huangpu River and found no flu viruses (Shanghai Daily).

GAWWWD DAMN. That is one scary time-line.
Thanks.

thanks been watching not good

Hey GFG.

If this thing can be spread person to person, we'll be in some serious trouble.

No kidding.

All of those carcasses thrown into the water surely have/ will create their own biological concerns - and I don't see it just going away. Even if they tried to spray/ treat the area for any sort of biologicals going on, that doesn't account for the already-contaminated water that has been flowing downstream, and any such agent used would also adversely affect the same area.

I question if the Chinese use all the anti-bacterial hand stuff that they manufacture. If the Chinese have a strong immune system and shun the anti-bacterial stuff this could be why this illness has not spread like wild fire. IMO many Americans could NOT fight off a true illness because they have been using all the anti bacterial stuff and have weakened their immunity. We are a very clean society and are germ scared thus have done damage to our immune system. Look at how the flu shut down schools and businesses. Hospitals were setting up tents. Does that happen in other countries?

China bird flu: Two men die in Shanghai

It is unclear how the strain spread, but the three did not infect each other or any close contacts, officials say.

While both men who died were in Shanghai, the third victim was reported in Chuzhou in the eastern province of Anhui.

According to China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, all three became ill with coughs and fevers before developing pneumonia.

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

Cant imagine why they would have disease
First Dead Pigs, Now Dead Ducks Foul a Chinese River
[link to abcnews.go.com]

Population reduction time...may the squish count be ever in your favor.

I lived in Nanjing until recently. If you go on the buses you'll come into contact with live birds regularly - people carry chickens in carrier bags. Very cute, and hopefully that explains the cases. Hopefully. I really hope this doesn't turn nasty... it's a beautiful city that has suffered enough in the past (used to be called Nanking, if that rings any bells).

“Wash your hands, and cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing,” was the advice published in the Oriental Morning Post, Shanghai’s most popular newspaper (and repeated in others). “And avoid eating or contact with dead and diseased livestock.”

That last directive might be a little tricky to fulfill. Since early March, Shanghai’s waterways have been clogged by dead pigs -- officially at least 11,000 of them but likely a lot more. Many of those pigs have found their way into tributaries that feed directly into the municipal water supply. Thus, in theory, every Shanghai resident who comes into contact with the city’s water is potentially compromised.

Are Floating Pigs Behind China’s Avian Flu?
[link to www.bloomberg.com]

From recombinomics.com:

"This explosion of H7N9 cases in Shanghai and adjacent provinces (Jiangsu and Anhui) are likely linked to a novel subclade which has a PB2 E627K, N9 with a 15 BP deletion, and a subset also have H7 Q226L (never reported in natural H5N1 bird flu)."

[link to www.recombinomics.com]

Does this imply the virus is manmade?

chickens in bags aint gonna help i dont think

this may prove to be pertinent at some point in the future

So what's been killing these animals? Are they really saying there's no link?

Let us know when 3 billion are hit in the far east and Afrika.

That when we take recognise Doom.

"Thereafter, biological weapons will be deployed against China. China will "catch a cold"

[link to projectcamelot.org]

don't we read this every year?

Not this friend.

But of course it is. Take your vitamin c, clean your home less often and stay out of the public as much as you can. I truly believe this to be airborne, not human to human...

lol, its just the flu man, but go ahead and run to the doctors for your hit of monkey spunk and toxic chemicals,

Well ya know its why the WHO says hey have been spraying us with chemtrails, to prepare us for the coming pandemic!! They actually say it!

And there is only one way you know theres a pandemic coming, and thats if your the one bringing it.

Wait...why would you protect the masses using chem-trails if you planned of setting free some crazy virus?

thanks for scaring the shit out of me today- I hate these stories, you just never know which one will go out like wild fire and light-up the entire world.

Sorry Spider.
Just bringing the info.

No, it is overdue.

the five deadliest plagues in history:
[link to www.neatorama.com]
Problem is, they left a lot out- like the 25 million who have died of aids in the last 25 years- more than died during the black death.