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Last week a 19 year old girl in Beijing died of bird flu (avian flu) in China's first reported case in about a year. Beijing Notebook wrote a list of tips for preventing infection by bird flu based on a distribution list from a doctor of the German Embassy in Beijing . Go to www.Beijing.diplo.de...
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This World AIDS Day, we have witnessed an extraordinarily well-coordinated effort by Chinese media to raise AIDS awareness among the populace and to communicate the resolve of the central government to win the battle against the disease. This small sampling of stories that appeared in state-run English...
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We've had a hard time making sense of the conflicting reports on China's HIV/AIDS situation that kept appearing on our RSS this morning. First, there was an AFP report that China says estimated HIV/AIDS cases rise to 700,000 , and then AP came out with a conflicting report entitled China HIV/AIDS figures...
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The Ministry of Health will soon relax a 14 year old rule that bars foreigners with HIV/AIDS from entering China, although a date has not yet been set, reports the Associated Press . Needless to say, this is of MAJOR significance. As everyone who is employed in China on a work visa (and we're referring...
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How all you laowai 's out there — yes, you of the caucasoid and negroid variety (and for the record, none of those terms are derogatory) — China wants your blood! Earlier this year, we told you that Shanghai was looking for foreign blood , but this time it's Beijing, and it's for the Olympics! From the...
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Well, at least Puxi appears to be safe. Thank god for the Huangpu! When we first saw this at our Kunming hotel, we figured it was just a complementary bootleg DVD of UltraViolet II . But we were excited to discover it was really an XHZLC 40 FIRE ESCAPE MASK! Just in time for the Shanghaiist Halloween...
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DUE TO ITS SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC NATURE, THE PHOTO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORY APPEARS AFTER THE JUMP . 24 year old macrodactyly patient Liu Hua from Jiangsu, the man with the world's largest hand ( Pic after the jump : NOT for the faint-hearted!!), has arrived at the Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital for radical...
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A female toddler that has experienced swelling of the breasts and menstruation at 15 months of age has been cited by doctors at the Nanjiing Children's Hospital as an extreme example of the rise in the number of cases of precocious puberty all across China. One parent who always thought her 3 year old...
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In a story that reminded us of the Andrew Speaker incident, two Taiwanese tuberculosis patients have defied a travel ban and flown to Nanjing from Kaohsiung (via Hong Kong). They have since been "located" by Chinese officials (we wonder how they did that!) and "are now receiving treatment". A maximum...
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Shanghai Daily tells us that the Shanghai Health Bureau has shut down three clinics in the city for "faulty practices", albeit just temporarily. They are namely - Shanghai Zhongtai Hospital, Shanghai Shenguang Clinic and Shanghai Hong'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic. What faulty practices, we...
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Yes, it's hard hitting reporting like this that has people wondering how we avoid the censors. But we recently found ourself in need of an ACE bandage, known in some parts of the world as an elastic bandage. Back home, we would have just headed to the local drugstore to buy one, but we had heard some...
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We told you about reports of fake mineral water being sold in Beijing, but looks like the problem isn't just confined to the capital! A guy bought a bottle of mineral water in Hebei manufactured by the Hebei Province Yutian District Huibang Drink Factory (河北玉田县汇邦饮料厂) recently, and before he actually...
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We told you about the Made-in-China scare that is happening outside of China, but let's take another look at what's happening right here right now. A CCTV program (click link for video in Chinese) has investigated a herbal weight loss patch (美国七点瘦) which its manufacturers claim to have helped Chelsea...
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Today is World No Tobacco Day, and according to a joint study done by Shanghai city and Fudan University public health researchers found that 82.8% of Shanghai people in a survey said they supported the idea of smoking/non-smoking sections in restaurants...