China - Man, 25, dead - wife & child hospitalized with ill an unidentified respiratory disease - Suzhou, Jiangsu province

[alert]

Hat-tip Pixie. More trouble:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0aac74e0-9a25-11e2-9732-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2P94PBtN1

China deaths raise bird flu fears

March 31, 2013 Jamil Anderlini

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An investigation by state media on Friday found that a 25-year-old man had died from an unidentified respiratory disease while his 25-year-old wife and two-year-old child remained in a stable condition in a hospital in the city of Suzhou.

Doctors from the hospital told state media they had not identified the exact cause of the disease but unknown viruses were common in large Chinese hospitals and doctors believed the chances of further infection were low.

“Every year when the seasons change all big hospitals [in China] will have cases of severe pneumonia with unidentified origin but they’re not necessarily contagious,” said Zhang Xuehua, director of of the intensive care unit at Suzhou Number 5 hospital.

Meanwhile, Hangzhou police detained the person who originally posted the alert about the family’s illness on the internet and punished her with five days in jail for spreading malicious rumours online.

more at above link....

[sharon sanders]

Re: China - Man, 25, dead - wife & child hospitalized with ill an unidentified respiratory disease - Suzhou, Jiangsu province

Thanks Alert for bringing this over.

Please remember to snip articles that are copyrighted.

Please start a new thread for each new incidence of respiratory/pneumonia/H5N1/H7N9 as has been the practice in the China forum for several years. The purpose of this is to be sure that these stories are not lost in a large thread.

Thanks to everyone in flublogia!

[Farmer]

Re: China - Man, 25, dead - wife & child hospitalized with ill an unidentified respiratory disease - Suzhou, Jiangsu province

Suzhou, Jiangsu province

This location appears to be within 60 miles W NW of Shanghai.

[sharon sanders]

Re: China - Man, 25, dead - wife & child hospitalized with ill an unidentified respiratory disease - Suzhou, Jiangsu province

Hat-tip Pixie. More trouble:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0aac74e0-9a25-11e2-9732-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2P94PBtN1

China deaths raise bird flu fears

March 31, 2013 Jamil Anderlini

snip

An investigation by state media on Friday found that a 25-year-old man had died from an unidentified respiratory disease while his 25-year-old wife and two-year-old child remained in a stable condition in a hospital in the city of Suzhou.

Doctors from the hospital told state media they had not identified the exact cause of the disease but unknown viruses were common in large Chinese hospitals and doctors believed the chances of further infection were low.

“Every year when the seasons change all big hospitals [in China] will have cases of severe pneumonia with unidentified origin but they’re not necessarily contagious,” said Zhang Xuehua, director of of the intensive care unit at Suzhou Number 5 hospital.

Meanwhile, Hangzhou police detained the person who originally posted the alert about the family’s illness on the internet and punished her with five days in jail for spreading malicious rumours online.

more at above link....

I think it is connected to this report I posted on March 23. I think they punished 4 people for this rumour that is apparently true:

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Four Internet users spread Hangzhou epidemic rumors detained fine
March 20, 2013 09:20:00
Source: Xinhua

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In the afternoon of March 16, a post on Sina microblogging "field of a young couple to Hangzhou play fever came back, the man died in the hospital, the woman still in the hospital but also in critical condition"; Then, The Sina microblogging another posts that "a company laboratory accident causing virus leak, three o'clock tomorrow will Hangzhou City of 'clean'. Others thread called "Hangzhou beltway sealed the all not only into. The above rumors spread on the Internet, triggering public concern, causing some panic.

The Hangzhou police immediately launched an investigation, seized on March 17 Posted by employees in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Wu , Zhang, Shimou and Hangzhou, a vocational high school students Yaomou. The four fabricated on the Internet, the spreading epidemic rumors of illegal confessed. The public security organs in accordance with the provisions of Article 25 of the "People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public Security Act, respectively, made of the fabricated rumors Wu, Zhang security detention for 10 days, five days of punishment to make law and order a fine of 500 yuan punishment, Shimou Yaomou .

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