Posted on 09/01/2007 3:18:43 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China 'has 120m hepatitis B carriers'
By Shan Juan (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-01 09:04
At least 120 million people in China have become carriers of the hepatitis B virus out of the 700 million people who once were infected with it, a senior health official said on Friday.
Hao Yang, deputy director of the Ministry of Health's disease control and prevention bureau, revealed the figure at a ceremony unveiling a free hepatitis B vaccination project for 320,000 primary school students in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
But he did not elaborate on details like major transmission channels and geographical distribution.
"Prevention should come first to contain this disease, which is highly preventable with efficient and the safe hepatitis B vaccine available since 1982," he told China Daily.
Since 2002, China has added the vaccine to its routine immunization programs, under which the government foots the bill for vaccines for all newborn babies.
In China, 40 percent of all infections are mother-to-child, according to Samuel So, director of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University. Unfortunately, very few people are aware that a vaccine at birth is likely to stop the baby contracting the virus.
The vaccine, given as a series of three injections and costing roughly 60 yuan ($8) for each one, is the most cost-efficient and effective way to curb the epidemic, which causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and major economic losses to China every year, noted Wang Zhao, vice-president of China Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, which helped raise the $1 million funding for the project.
"Starting with children, the vaccine project is a step forward to help the nation finally shake off its notoriety as the 'major hepatitis B host.'" Wang added.
Hao stressed that discrimination against hepatitis B carriers in fields such as employment and education should be eradicated, citing the halt to compulsory hepatitis B tests for job applicants.
That is a lot of humanity.
Ping!
There will be, nonetheless, people who object to condoms being widely available to limit transmission. We see it with STDs in the U.S. and AIDS in AFrica...
The next wave of Chinese imports ping.
There may be a few who object, but no one is stopping it. Condoms are not producing much in terms of results no matter how much they are distributed.
China ‘has 120m hepatitis B carriers’(10% of population)
coming soon to a Walmart in a town near you!!!!
Get the lead out.
We have high Hep B stats here too.
Ever hear of kissing disease as a teen?
Ya that pretty boi kissed all us girls and mono happened,
Can’t imagine what your teens do now a days, er I mean teens not yours.
Hep B if you have a good immune system is no problem just don’t give blood.
I have a close friend who only used condoms in college for birth control, he used them everytime with his girlfriend. That said it diod nto work and he had two kids with her, bith were not planned. He jokes that fertility clinics are not needed all you have todo is get a box of trojans.
You only have to look at Africa to see how effective condoms are. They have been heavily distributed there for many years and tet there are no signs that they have made a dent in preventing the spread of STD’s.
Let me put it this way, are you willing to trust you life and your lifestyle to a 4 to 6 mil thick piece of latex?
These are the same people who work in the chocolate covered worms factory.
Mao’s personal physician attributes the plague of STD’s to Mao, personally and directly. Mao was a carrier of a variety of STDs. He daily raped virgins, estimated in the tens of thousands.
An excellent reason to be vaccinated. Just wish there was a vaccine against Hepatitis C.
I for one will never trust a piece of latex to prevent STD’s. The failure rate is too high.
As for the ever popular way of getting tested every 6 months. I hear this from celebritards all the time. It’s that like trying to prevent a pregnancy with a pregnancy test?
China ping
Combine the knowledge from that thread with this prior article posted on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503169/posts
Chinese immigrants keep US well fed
Taipei Times ^ | 10.09.05
Posted on 10/15/2005 7:24:20 PM EDT by Dr. Marten
Chinese immigrants keep US well fedHARD LIFE: New York is the center of a trade in Chinese immigrant kitchen staff that keeps eateries across the entire country supplied with minimum-wage workers
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK
Sunday, Oct 09, 2005,Page 4
I’ve given up Chinese food completely.
There are many ways other than sexual contact to become infected with hepatitis B, and frankly, I’m surprised the number of people infected in China isn’t much higher.
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