New Mystery Disease in China, is this the next big outbreak?

New Mystery Disease in China, is this the next big outbreak?

www.recombinomics.com

"China reported that approximately 20 days ago, a man suddenly died from an unidentified disease in Wanjiakou Village, Xiaoguan Town, Wendeng City, Shandong Province. His entire body turned dark purple, and he bled from his mouth, nostrils, ears, and eyes just as he died.

Shortly after the man died, 2 other men who been in contact with him, died showing the same symptoms. Villagers who had left the village to work said "3 people died 10 days ago.

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I pray this is not H5N1 mutated into a new strain. Could this be the next big outbreak? Is china as ready or able to contain this? Definately worth keeping on eye on.

Villagers who had left the village to work said "3 people died 10 days ago.

I wonder how many other people they came into contact with....

-Kdial1

www.recombinomics.com
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[edit on 28-7-2008 by kdial1]

it really sound like the Ebola virus.

Very scary stuff right there, thats got to be one of the worst ways to die.

why isnt this major serious news ???

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...because it's not happening in the US
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China denied Monday that a mysterious disease that has killed at least 17 people in southwestern China was either SARS or bird flu and said it was probably caused by a bacteria spread among pigs.

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The death toll from a hitherto rare disease has risen to 24 in southwest China, with more than 117 people feared infected. Chinese health officials report that the disease is caused by known bacteria from pigs, though the size and virulence of the outbreak has baffled the World Health Organization.

"It's never occurred in an outbreak this big before," WHO spokesman Bob Dietz told AFP. "We're accustomed to seeing only one or two cases. We're not accustomed to this large number of people getting infected. And we don't understand why that is."

The disease is believed to be caused by the pig bacterium Streptococcus suis. The first cases surfaced in June 2005 in two cities in China’s Sichuan province. All cases were either farmers that had butchered infected pigs or people who later handled the contaminated pork products, says the Chinese Ministry of Health. No person-to-person transmission has been reported.

High mortality rate
The first recorded human case of S. suis was in Denmark in 1968. Only 200 cases have been reported since then, excluding the current outbreak. Dick Thompson, a WHO spokesman in Geneva, says full laboratory reports on the 76 confirmed and 41 suspected infections will help experts to understand why this outbreak has grown so large and deadly.

www.newscientist.com...

seems we have an ordeal here, i'll be watching

So how far from the Olympic village is this outbreak? One liner alert. That is really the only question I got. I am very curious about it.

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Wow if there start to be restrictions on swine products here in the US......well I will be beyond disappointed....I love BACON!! Hopefully China can contain this!!

Thanks for the extra links UnitedSatesofFreemasons

-Kdial

more maybe connected information:

www.iht.com...

www.nytimes.com...

Team studies disease outbreak among pigs in China

My first to this was it is an effect of the quake, since there both in the same region, then i started to look into it, and it seems that this was a " no Worry" situation a year ago. What i find interesting is the Vets. are so confident that it would remain issolated to the pigs...guess not so much anymore?

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Yes, does sound consistent with a VHF such as ebola or marburg, but also very consistent with the 1918 pandemic, which was thought to be a variant of avian flu. I guess I'm surprised the information got out at all. I hope this isn't an indication of the A H7 strain shifting to a point where in can be transmitted via human-to-human contact. www.cdc.gov...

wow if you want to wipe out the world now would be the time. People from every country will be there. If they get sick and take it back to their homelands....thats probably why this isnt on the news.

I often wonderd why most of the worls more exotic diseases originate from China. I know there are many people there but there are lots in india and africa too. Im not saying disease is'nt rife there aswell but it seems to me that china has more than it's share of pandemic causing or potentialy pandemic causing diseases

also they seem to start in mountainous regions or places where the population isnt as extream as in the built up areas.

I wonder what the chinese biological wepons programes contain. I know this is purely speculation on my part but i bet there governments are not above testing there wepons in small controlled experiments among small isolated communitys i guess some times it's natual and sometimes it's not and things always have a way of getting away from you

Any thaughts on this?

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That is a very good point! If a pandemic broke out in China, I am sure china will try and keep it under raps for the sake of the Olympics. In turn this would cause the pandemic to spread throughout the world...scary thought.

-Kdial1

Just another reason not to eat at McDonalds...


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Originally posted by mybigunit
wow if you want to wipe out the world now would be the time. People from every country will be there. If they get sick and take it back to their homelands....thats probably why this isnt on the news.

Excellent points.

I read once that if you stay in your house and have no contact with anyone for two weeks while an epidemic is spreading through your area, you will most likely miss it. I wonder if there is anything to that?

If pigs are used for organ transplantation due to their high compatibility with humans. Does this translate to the pig virus as well? Will it make the jump more easily at us, thus harboring a potential lethal pandemic?

Not worried yet, but interesting story.

With the olympics set to start in August, this disease could reach around the globe if the threat is not met with a solving force. Also, the Chinese may turn this into a bio weapon, to be used by the Russo-Iranian Chinese triumvirate?

Well, I would if a super deadly virus were swimming around in my country. Sucks to be the US.

None of you should concern yourself.

The Governments are in desperate need to depopulate the world and are practicing on world citizens. Pleas go watch more TV and do things that do not involve seeking the truth.

reminds me of the beginning of world war z
if you havent read it or listened to the audio book, do so now!

its about zombies btw