Travel To China, H1N1 – Info for your China vacations
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This article is about the H1N1 and China travel. You can find some useful information in it if you are planning your China vacations now.
The A(H1N1) quarantine policy (from several big Chinese web sites) in China:
1. If you don’t have a fever when getting off the plane in the airports of China, you don’t need to worry about quarantine policy of China at all. If you do have a fever, you will need to do a medical examination in the city where you enter China. This is to make sure that you don’t get the A(H1N1) flu.( more info about “Travel To China, H1N1,China vacations” at Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM )
2. If there is some people having a fever in your plane to China and your seat is very close to him/her (less than 3 meters away), you will need to do the medical examination in the hospital when this people is confirmed as a A(H1N1) flu patient. The Chinese Malaria Control Center will contact you when they find some confirmed A(H1N1) cases in the plane you take. If you sit far away from the A(H1N1) patient (more than 3 meters away) in the plane, you don’t need to worry about this issue at all. No one is going to ask you to do a medical examination even when there is some confirmed A(H1N1) cases in your plane to China.
3. Some people did the quarantine for a week in Beijing and Jiangshu when they got to China. They only did this voluntarily. One one is going to ask you to do this. But in my point of view, this can be good both for your family and your friends. You don’t wanna your close people to be threatened by the A(H1N1) flu too, right? ( more info about “Travel To China, H1N1,China vacations” at Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM )
Some personal experience when people arrived at the airports of Beijing,Shanghai or Hongkong:
1. My parents traveled to China last Monday. All they got in the Beijing Capital Airport is to go through a Temperature Monitoring Device. That’s it. When they stayed in the hotel, the Malaria Control Center didn’t contact them. Now there are more than 200 A(H1N1) cases in China and the Chinese people don’t pay so much attention to this flu as they used to be. (I think it is very natural for the Chinese people to be very nervous about this A(H1N1) flu. The SARS was such a disaster here in the year of 2003. )
2. I flied to China last week and I am in China now. I am not very familar with the A(H1N1) quarantine policy in China. I will only talk about my personal experience here. I entered China in the Shanghai Pudong Airport. In the plane, the airhostesses helped us to do the body temperature check once. When we arrived at Shanghai, some “astronauts” checked our body temperature again. When I left the U.S., my body temperature was about 37 Centigrade. (because I was sleeping poorly these days) But they didn’t find me out. Maybe I was not having a fever when they checked my body temperature in the airport. I then transfered to another plane. No one contacted me about the A(H1N1) flu issue any more. I can do whatever I like in China. By the way, I left my address in China and phone number in the Shanghai Pudong Airport of course.
3. I visited Hong Kong last week. All I did is to fill out some forms. No body temperature check at all. When I arrived at Shenzhen, some people asked me to go through the Temperature Monitoring Device and fill out some other forms. ( more info about “Travel To China, H1N1,China vacations” at Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM )
By 06/13/2009, there are 293 A(H1N1) flu cases in China. ( Beijing: 38, Guangdong: 37, Fujian: 25, Shanghai: 17, Sicuan: 15, Hubei: 9, Zhejiang: 6, Tianjin: 4, Shandong: 3, Hunan: 2, Henan: 1, Jiangsu: 1, Shanxi: 1, Liaoning: 1, Guizhou: 1, Jiangxi: 1, Hainan: 3, Hongkong: 84, Taiwan: 44 )
By Shane Lee. Date: 06/14/2009.
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How is the H1N1 vaccine different than other flu strand vaccines?
I realize there are vaccines for different strands, but it seems as the h1n1 is pretty controversial. Why?
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18 Comments
September 18th, 2009 at 11:46 am
It could range from anything to the common cold to allergies. Not everything is H1N1. I was feeling down yesterday and had all those symptoms you said so I took a Tylenol and now I feel fine.
Get some rest and if your symptoms continue or worsen, go see a doctor.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
It's just hype. The flu vaccine they make each year is made from the previous year's strain. Here, they are trying to hurry up and make one from samples taken just this past season, and we have to be careful to go through all the safety procedures. There is nothing really different.
And you can add to that the suspicion that swine flu may not be that bad after all, and the idea that since the flu is the result of a cross-species jump, that means something about the vaccine, which it doesn't
September 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Influenza viruses can infect multiple species of animal.
This is really not hard. Birds migrate, they take the flu with them. Humans travel they take the flu with them.
An Asian bird migrates to Europe taking a bird flu with them. That flu finds it's way into a human who gets "bird flu" and infects others. One of the poor unfortunate souls who picks up this "bird flu" is a sick elderly person who already has a form of human flu.
The two flu's combine and infect healthcare workers, then the healthcare workers kids, then the healthcare workers kids classmates, then the healthcare workers kids classmates parents. One of those parents gets infected, travels to Mexico on vacation, and passes this "combined flu" to one of the workers in the hotel. That worker passes it to their families.
One member of their family is already infected with a form of swine flu. That family member is now infected with a combination swine-bird-human flu.
This is not all that uncommon. What is uncommon is for these combined flu's to spread so late in the flu season. Which theoretically ends in mid-Spring.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
lol dude i was thinking the same thing…though the plan doesnt sound that bad
September 18th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
they should drop the h1n1 in china.. oops
September 18th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
It's not mandatory because it's not important. Firstly, H1N1 has been documented since around 1915. This isn't new.
Second, it's insignificant to the general population. The WHO reports around 185,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with around 1400 deaths. Compare this to the rest of the Influenza A group, at 340,000,000 – 1,000,000,000 infections per year, and 250,000 – 500,000 deaths worldwide per year. That means H1N1 has less than .02% of the deaths per year globally than Influenza A, which the general population basically ignores. In the end, the numbers speak for themselves…the media is just stirring the pot because there's nothing better to scare people with right now.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Im looking to contract H1N1.
can anybody hook a brotha up?
September 19th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I'm pretty sure it was between April 27th and April 29th. That's when I keep seeing articles posted that worried about the swine flu here in the US.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:12 am
H1N1 (h1n1) flu also called Swine flu. “H1N1 and H3N2” swine flu viruses are endemic among pig in the US. Outbreaks among pigs normally occur in colder weather months (late fall and winter) and sometimes with the introduction of new pigs into susceptible herds. The virus is contagious and can spread to human and from human to human. The H3N2 viruses initially were introduced into the pig. The current swine flu H1N1 viruses are closely related to human H3N2 viruses. The seasonal influenza vaccine will likely help provide partial protection against swine H3N2, but not swine H1N1 viruses. TRANSMISSION : Influenza viruses can be directly transmitted from pigs to people and from people to people. Human infection with flu viruses from pigs are most likely to occur when people are in close proximity to infected pigs, such as in pig barns and livestock exhibits housing pigs at fairs. Human-to-human transmission of swine flu can also occur. This is thought to occur in the same way as seasonal flu occurs in people, which is mainly person-to-person transmission through coughing or sneezing of people infected with the influenza virus. People may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose. DIAGNOSIS : To diagnose swine influenza A infection, a respiratory specimen would generally need to be collected within the first 4 to 5 days of illness (when an infected person is most likely to be shedding virus). However, some persons, especially children, may shed virus for 7 days or longer. Identification as a swine flu influenza A virus requires sending the specimen to CDC for laboratory testing.
MEDICATION : There are four different antiviral drugs that are licensed for use in the US for the treatment of influenza: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir. While most swine influenza viruses have been susceptible to all four drugs, the most recent H1N1 influenza viruses isolated from humans are resistant to amantadine and rimantadine.
You can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza by:
• Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. You can also use alcohol-based hand cleaners.
• Avoiding touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Trying to avoid close contact with sick people.
• Staying home from work or school if you are sick.
Good luck!
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/h1n1f...
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/key_facts.htm…
September 20th, 2009 at 1:44 am
I am getting both vaccinations as will the rest of my family.
My husband travels by plane for work each week so he breathes in that recycled air twice a week. my 7 year old goes to school and everyone knows schools, especially elementary, are big germ factories! I have a 17 month old baby at home with me and Im 18 weeks pregnant. Since my new born wont be able to be vaccinated, we are all getting the vaccinations when they become available just to protect everyone in the home.
If you dont get the shot and you get the flu after your baby is born, you could pass it onto your newborn. You might not get it as severely but your baby will only be tiny and wont be able to fight it off as you will most likely be able to.
To everyone who carries hand sanitizer, I do too! My son carries it to school and we ALWAYS wash our hands and change clothes when we come home from shopping, etc. But there is no way of knowing if the person who sneezed behind you in the grocery line sneezed the swine flu germ onto you or your children. And as an adult, we know not to touch our faces, but what about our young children who often forget or dont know any better?
September 20th, 2009 at 10:53 am
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Goto : health-careblog.blogspot.com/
September 20th, 2009 at 6:11 am
thought I did – better late than never…:)
September 20th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Expose those criminal pharmaceutical companies!
They own the government just like all other giant business, oil companies, banks, etc in the world!
They probably make the virus’ that they sell vaccines to treat.
Vaccines usually do more harm than good. Yet they control the media that pushes this crap!
September 20th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Interesting how 6 months ago everybody knew EXACTLY where this came from. Equally interesting how all of a sudden it stopped being “swine flu” and started being “H1N1.” Probably because “swine” reminds us that it originated with pigs on Mexican farms and was carried by pig-fucking wetbacks into the United States. Ahh…the blessings of Mexican immigration.
September 20th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I generally worry about overuse of China's products and their quality control. China has begun to take quality control seriously recently after the rash of lead in children's toys that you mentioned, but it's far from what exists here. I favor fare trade over free trade, where free trade is conditioned on various regulations for safety, the environment, and labor relations to create a level playing field and a better standard of living.
However, that fear is not specifically about the h1n1 vaccine. I'm no more worried about it than anything else of that nature and h1n1, while no more scary than West Nile or other recent diseases to come to the US, is still a significantly bigger threat than the risk of tainted medicine, especially since quality control on medicine is much better than most products.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:49 am
Look up Terence Tumpy here on you tube, there’s a video with an interview with him where he even admits putting the H1N1 virus into the H5N1 “just to see what happens” – its a pretty old vid now.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:14 am
there has been about 40 suspicious deaths of scientist (virologist) over the last decade…it seems to be a dangerous business…
September 21st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Doctors in the UK are being offered a £26,000 or £27,000 bonus (don’t remember exactly which) for giving all their patients this vaccine – look it up – its true. It contains squalene, research what that does to an immune system.