Some Beijing medical officials think so, at least for mild cases of the disease. On Thursday, Chinese medicine officials announced that a traditional formula called Jin Hua Qing Gan” (金花清感) has been designated as the world’s first “optimized effective agent” for alleviating the symptoms of the H1N1 virus.
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Ten days after China’s Ministry of Health called for more accurate reporting on the spread of H1N1, results are being seen. The number of reported deaths from H1N1 now stands at 178, more than triple the number two weeks ago.
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Regular Hao Hao Reporters already know Josh's blog is one of the best China blogs out there. If you've only suspected this, now it's confirmed. Josh is in Xinjiang, teaching English through a school-mandated mask and letting us know what's up in the NW.
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With a nuclear war at our doorstep, a piggy cough pandemic and a struggling economy you’d think that we’ve had to endure enough shit for a while. Think again. A highly virulent lung disease otherwise known as the goddamn PLAGUE appears to have made a comeback in the ethnically Tibetan village of Ziketan, Qinhai province.
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This one slipped by me until I did a search for swine flu-related articles today. This acknowledgment seems to be surprisingly out of character for the Chinese government, but maybe that's just an impression I have that's not born out by actual fact.
read more »The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the quarantine measures imposed by the Government of China in response to the 2009-H1N1 pandemic that may affect travel to China. This Travel Alert expires on September 30, 2009.
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The Mushroon Farmer Approach to Media Management: Keep Them in the Dark and Feed Them Shit. "Foreigners have sickness, Chinese don't. Chinese pigs are have even more no sickness"
Video of a press-conference with a health official on H1N1 in China. Even the attendant journalists burst out in a fit of laughter.
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