China issues virus alert after 23 die

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Enterovirus-71 has killed 23 children, sickened 4,000 others. Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam also have outbreaks. Beijing seeks
to avoid coverup charges as Olympics near.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11:00 AM PDT, May 3, 2008
BEIJING -- The Chinese Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert today
over a virus that has killed 23 children and sickened more than 4,000
others, as it scrambled to fend off a potential scandal over a
coverup.

The latest victim of enterovirus-71 was an 18-month-old boy in
southern Guangdong province who died Friday. The death was the first
outside the Anhui province city of Fuyang, 1,000 miles to the north.

Disease has also broken out in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and
Vietnam, although no deaths have been reported there.

The virus is a perennial in the summer months in Asia, but the
outbreak this year appears to be larger than usual. Because the
disease usually peaks in June and July, more deaths are expected.

China issues virus alert after 23 die

http://tinyurl.com/63shqw
Enterovirus-71 has killed 23 children, sickened 4,000 others. Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam also have outbreaks. Beijing seeks
to avoid coverup charges as Olympics near.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11:00 AM PDT, May 3, 2008
BEIJING -- The Chinese Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert today
over a virus that has killed 23 children and sickened more than 4,000
others, as it scrambled to fend off a potential scandal over a
coverup.

The latest victim of enterovirus-71 was an 18-month-old boy in
southern Guangdong province who died Friday. The death was the first
outside the Anhui province city of Fuyang, 1,000 miles to the north.

Disease has also broken out in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and
Vietnam, although no deaths have been reported there.

The virus is a perennial in the summer months in Asia, but the
outbreak this year appears to be larger than usual. Because the
disease usually peaks in June and July, more deaths are expected.

The Use of Molluscicides in UK Agriculture and their Effects on
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A few months ago my old Fordson started leaking oil from the front
crank. After a query to this group, I got it all apart, and changed
the front seal. This cured the problem and it has been fine ever
since.

The day before yesterday, it started leaking engine oil through the
hole in the bottom clutch housing where the engine bolts to the
gearbox. This has to be an engine-out job, which is a bit different
to last time. I am quite confident I can do it, but would like to
have a few pointers from someone who has done it - so I don't waste
time or fall into any traps.

I can lift almost anything in my workshop, but I could do without this
job, as I have work for the tractor and need the space for another on-
going project.

By the way, has anyone run their diesel engine on waste vegetable
oil? I have lots of it - filtered and dry.

Anyone got any hints - please!

Thanks George.

Let's suppose I'm right and the findings of both Dutch and Canadian
scientists of superbugs in pigs are linked to Britain's 1999 epidemic of a
mutated form of PMWS in pigs.

It is not surprising that nobody else has published a connection, the pig
epidemic was hidden up. Some of those that knew are implicated in starting
human epidemics of startling ferocity. There is indeed a conspiracy of
silence.

Britain was the first, and for a time, the only country with this
effectively new pig disease. It spread from East Anglia throughout the
country during the latter part of 1999 and most of 2000, before the twin
epidemics of Classical Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth obscured the picture.
It still rages today, coming and going in waves.

All the figures for both animal disease and human epidemics are unreliable
worldwide, but the prestigious BBC programme Panorama quotes scientists that
believe that C.Diff in ten times worse in Britain's hospitals than anywhere
else worldwide. PMWS is also believed to be worse in Britain.