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To: Henry Niman who wrote (64254)	5/25/2005 8:24:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<The May 24 update of the bird flu situation in Qinghai has the number of H5N1 cases increasing from 51 to 121, and the number dead increasing from 6 to 11. These reports are not confirmed. The Xining News indicates a news blackout has now been imposed. WHO has made inquiries and China has denied any human cases of H5N1 in Qinghai.> Yeah right. China denies, China lies. Nothing new. A news blackout is interesting. If there's nothing happening, why would there be a news blackout? Maybe there is no news blackout? Has somebody tried going there and talking to some doctors who treated the people? But how cool the statistics are. 121 cases and only 11 dead. That's down at sars levels, though I suppose the numbers dead will rise as their illnesses progress over a week or three. But H5N1 reaches maximum pain after about 4 days if I remember rightly, unlike sars which took 10 days or so to really get going in a person, so maybe the death rate will be "only" about 20%, not the 70% of the initial cases. That's some consolation. I suppose the old will succumb more than the young, as usual. Mqurice