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Papers raise the alarm about swine fluPosted by Eric Mu, April 29, 2009 5:37 PM
 Chengdu Evening News April 29, 2009 As more swine flu cases are being reported in various countries including China's neighbors South Korea and Thailand, flu-related news dominated the front pages of today's newspapers. Within the country's borders, there are already four patients in Hong Kong showing symptoms that match the description; there are no cases on the mainland at the time of writing. The front page of most newspapers prominently featured President Hu Jintao's call for stepped-up efforts to prevent swine flu. According to Xinhua: Today's Chengdu Evening News uses a large number “4” in red on its cover to illustrate a report on the World Health Organization's decision to raise the swine flu alert from Phase 3 to Phase 4, which indicates that the virus can cause "sustained human-to-human transmission and community-level outbreaks." Guangzhou's New Express reported that tourism authorities have imposed a suspension on travel to Mexico, and have alerted citizens who are going to travel abroad. Other precautionary measures adopted by China include a suspension on pork product imports from Mexico and the United States. There have been rumors about a swine flu outbreak in Shaanxi Province. Today's Oriental Morning Post, a Shanghai-based newspaper, reported that all of the 63 students and faculty members at a middle school in Lantian, Shaanxi, who fell ill earlier this month have recovered, and the possibility that they caught swine flu has been ruled out. A page-three article under the headline "Large likelihood that swine flu will spread to China" reported that the city of Shanghai "has raised its precautions to the same level as when SARS broke out in 2003". Links and Sources
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Comments on Papers raise the alarm about swine flu
The chances of swine flu cases not already existing in mainland China is ZERO. While I don't believe the government are stupid enough to try a cover up this time around, old habits die hard in the provinces.
Swine flu is already there for sure; it's just a question of when we hear about it.
It's five now.
I have been checking on this swine flu tracking website Swine Flu Tracker on and off for the last couple of days now and its kinda scary seeing how it this strain of flu is spreading.
Considering swine flu have pretty much have same symptoms as the regular flu and only Mexico have the unusual mortality rate. I serious doubt Chinese hospitals can the difference. Considering that even Mexico have trouble to get a precise number (US currently have more confirmed cases than Mexico @#$%), China would be able to detect it until it get serious, which isn't really happening outside of Mexico. Anyway, flu season is abating right now, whether this turns to 1918 Spanish flu or just one more nasty strain added to the regular flu have to wait 'till October/November, the start of next flu season.