Three Cheers For China! China may save the world from pandemic.

[Chicago Democrat]

Face it folks, with George Bush in charge of Bird Flu we are all gonna die. Well, at least a whole bunch of poor people are gonna die.

Do you really trust George W. Bush, the most corrupt and incompetant president in the history of the United Stated to do ANYTHING RIGHT? Of course you don't. Now that the H5N1 strain of Bird Flu is one simple genetic change away from the 1918, what is needed is ACTION. and quick!!

China, a totalitarian government where the whole outwieghs the few is just the kind of government that is needed to deal with this pandemic. Consider the following actions that have already been taken.

1) China is breaking the Tamiflu patent. Fuck you Roche, Fuck you Rumsfelt. Once you get killer flu, Tamiflu is the only thing that will save you. Does it make you happy that the US has only enough for 2 percent of our population? Does it make you jealous that Europe has enough for 25% of their population. How about the fact that the price has gone up from 60 dollars to 120 dollars in the last 30 days? Well you will be happy to know China will be cranking out generics of this drug.

2) China is making billion of Bird Flu vaccine and is vaccinating ALL OF ITS CHICKENS! um why aren't we working on that? The virus has a chance of mutating in each host that gets it. The problem with having 100's of BILLIONS of birds getting this disease is that it makes the mutation into the 1918 flu INEVITABLE. Its not a question of IF. Its a question of WHEN.

3) China's control of its population is WAY better than anything in the west. China's has a command economy. China will be the one who developes the vaccine for the 1918 flu. AND SAVE THE WORLD.


Bush is doing nothing because he is at best INCOMPETANT. At worst he wants to kill all the poor people.

[Wilms]

1. China is breaking the Tamiflu patent??!!

Time to invade them.

[imax2268]

2. So...

does this mean the 7+billion dollars for a vacine will be put back...?

[Chicago Democrat]

5. Yeah, their gonna put with the 8 billion the lost in Iraq.

After fees and interest... and stealing

[expatriot]

3. China is vaccinating all of its chickens? nt

[Chicago Democrat]

4. China Says It Will Vaccinate Its Entire Poultry Population

China Says It Will Vaccinate Its Entire Poultry Population


By KEITH BRADSHER and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: November 15, 2005
BEIJING, Nov. 15 - China's Agriculture Ministry said late today that it would vaccinate all of the nation's billions of chickens and other poultry against bird flu.

The campaign, disclosed by the official Xinhua News Agency, would be the largest single vaccination effort ever for any species in terms of the number of animals involved, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. It will also be logistically complicated; billions of free-range birds will have to be caught.


Dr. Qi Xiaoqiu, the director general of the department for disease prevention and control at China's Health Ministry, said at a conference today that three-fifths of the poultry in China were kept by families, who let the birds and other domesticated animals wander around the neighborhood and the yard and often through the house. Constant close contact between animals and people is worrisome because birds and pigs can carry the H5N1 bird flu virus and may transmit it to people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/international/asia/15cnd-flu.html?hp

[senaca]

20. vaccinating chickens and flu mutation

Since the flu mutates wouldn't vaccinating the chicken population eventually create a flu mutation that is resiliant to the vacination?
I don't know the answer to this, but I'm curious.

[Mojorabbit]

6. there is no way they

can vaccinate all those chickens, is there? They have 14 billion of them. ..

[Chicago Democrat]

7. On the radio I heard they are making 100 million vaccines per day

so yes, they can. They are China. They really can do anything they want. (including executing 5000 people per year)

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. They were able to contain SARS

so they should be able to contain avian flu.

In regards to humans, if they immunize all the people who have close contact with birds and poultry, there shouldn't ever be a big problem.

[Mojorabbit]

22. You could contain SARS

because you could tell right off when you were infected. Flu is spread easier and you are contagious before you have symptoms. So much harder to contain. Not doable

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. They contained SARS

by killing off all the infected birds. That is what they are doing here with bird flu. SARS was transmittable from human to human. So far bird flu hasn't done that since the 1918 pandemic and it still hasn't been proved conclusively that that strain even came from birds.

[madrchsod]

8. Vietnam is vaccinating 200 million chickens

yes it can be done and now lets see if our corporate farms do the same...

[MadisonProgressive]

9. Sure they will - at $120 per chicken!

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Well, then, it's settled. Move to China.

I'll take a shit president running a mostly free country over an overpopulated totalitarian system with inoculated chickens any day.

[asthmaticeog]

13. Obviously you hate them for their freedom.

Er, um, uh...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Wow! Will it be available at Wal-mart? A large destination of Chinese

imports......

[formercia]

12. Viet Nam is vaccinating chickens as well

It's a good idea but there needs to be some changes in the way livestock is raised. The environment in which the birds are raised contributes to the problem.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Yeah, the Chinese are really into population control.

That's why people in the country murder their girl babies because they must have sons.

[Chicago Democrat]

15. Look that has nothing to do with Bird Flu...

Yes they suck in millions of ways. Noone is denying that. I personally hate them over Tibet. Still they are doing the right things here.

[Loonman]

16. They sure know how to keep protesting college students under control

Boy Howdy! Heavy machine guns and tanks.

[Chicago Democrat]

17. Yea, no kidding... they totally filter the internet and must have

a million communist loyalists watching 10 million angry activists.

[LoZoccolo]

18. Last time I checked, pro-choice also meant...

...that you were able to decide to not have an abortion too.

[Mr.Green93]

21. Once again China demonstrates

why it is destined to be the leader of the world.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. I'll give you one better:

Brazil breaks patents, has reduced population growth muchly, has received awards in AIDS treatment and prevention --














and is not a jackbooted dictatorship bent on pleasing big corporations with slave labor. Take that.