Monday, April 27, 2009

China Goes on Swine Flu Alert

China hasn’t yet had any reported cases of swine flu, but it is already taking measures to prevent the latest health scare from spreading.

On Saturday, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued an emergency notice requiring passengers arriving from flu-hit areas to report any flu-like symptoms, the China Daily reports.

The traveler measures are not yet as severe as those undertaken in its special administrative region of Hong Kong, where authorities said that passengers coming from areas with reported outbreaks of swine flu, such as New York City, who exhibit flu symptoms would be taken to hospitals for observation. China’s government has not issued a warning against travel to Mexico, as Hong Kong has.

On Monday, China joined several other countries in banning imports of live pigs and pork products from Mexico and parts of the U.S., even though the WHO says that swine flu cannot be contracted by eating cooked pork. The move affects pork from large agricultural states such as Kansas, California and Texas.

China was the source of the SARS epidemic in 2003, and occasional cases of H5N1 bird flu in Hong Kong have been traced to Chinese fowl. After coming under fire for its initial slow response to the SARS crisis, China has tried to improve its pandemic preparedness, though questions remain about how it would handle another major infectious disease outbreak.

–Sky Canaves

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