Category: Health
White House petition highlights China poisoning case
An almost 20-year-old case of a Beijing student left paralysed after allegedly being poisoned was back in the spotlight in Chinese state media Monday after a petition was [...]
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Scientist: Poultry trade may be spreading deadly bird flu
Poultry workers moving to and from wet markets and farms may be responsible for the spread of the deadly H7N9 virus in China, says a virologist who’s working with the [...]
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Rat meat passed off as lamb in China, report says
First it was tainted baby food and toys with lead paint. Now China is dealing with a meat scandal that involves passing rat meat off as lamb. The Ministry of Public Safety [...]
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Shanghai Cracks Down on Rat-for-Mutton Sales, Xinhua Reports
Shanghai authorities are cracking down on sales of mutton after police busted a crime ring selling rat, fox and mink as the meat, the official Xinhua News Agency reported [...]
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China bird flu scare: H7N9 found to be a deadly mix of four strains
The new H7N9 bird flu strain has been found to be a mixture of genes from four flu strains found in birds even as the first patient with severe symptoms of the deadly disease [...]
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Hundreds protest proposed China chemical plant
Hundreds of people protested against a proposed chemical plant in southwest China on Saturday, state media said, while residents in another city accused authorities of [...]
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China’s CNPC Defends Chengdu Chemical Plant Plan Amid
China’s largest oil producer defended plans for a chemical plant in southwestern Sichuan province, saying it will improve air quality by providing higher-standard oil [...]
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Thailand reports 33 dengue fever deaths in first four months of 2013
The number of dengue fever cases and fatalities have doubled since the middle of March, as the Thailand Disease Control Department (DDC) reports 26,000 cases and 33 deaths [...]
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Chinese authorities bust massive crime ring that passed off rat meat
Authorities in China smelled a rat – or several thousand tonnes of rat. Chinese police have busted a $1 million crime ring that was allegedly passing off the meat of [...]
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H7N9 cases in China rise to 128
Taipei, May 5 (CNA) China has reported a further case of H7N9 infection in Fujian Province, bringing the total number in China to 128, Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command [...]
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Countermeasures against H7N9 enforced – GlobalPost
The government on Monday enforced countermeasures against the H7N9 strain of bird flu, under which patients can be compelled to be hospitalised or to stop working for up to [...]
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China detains 900 over toxic meat scandal
China has detained 900 people for crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton, the public security ministry said, in another blow to the nation’s food [...]
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Rat Meat Sold as Lamb Highlights Fear in China
Even for China’s scandal-numbed diners, inured to endless outrages about food hazards, news that the lamb simmering in the pot may actually be rat tested new depths of [...]
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Fears over man-made bird flu bug
Immunologists expressed concern Friday about the “dangerous” work of scientists in China who created a hybrid bird flu virus that can spread in the air between [...]
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Chinese police bust million-dollar rat-meat ring
Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that [...]
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