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BEIJING: China on Monday confirmed its first case of H1N1 flu on the mainland in a Chinese man who recently travelled back from the United States, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The 30-year-old man surnamed Bao was hospitalised with a fever after arriving in the city of Chengdu in southwestern China from the United States via Tokyo on Saturday afternoon, Xinhua said, citing the Ministry of Health.
Bao had travelled to Beijing on Northwest Airlines flight NW029 from Tokyo before connecting to Chengdu, it said.
The man was transferred to an infectious diseases hospital in Chengdu, and people who came into close contact with him during his medical examination had been placed under observation, Xinhua said.
More than 130 of the 150 passengers aboard the same Northwest flight have also been tracked down and put into quarantine, Xinhua said, quoting Chengdu officials.
The government was "stepping up efforts to search and trace" any remaining people who may have come into close contact with Bao, the officials said.
Asia's first case of H1N1 flu was reported in Hong Kong on May 1, when a Mexican national tested positive for A(H1N1) after flying into the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city from Mexico via Shanghai.
The case led to scores of people being placed in quarantine in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including the Mexican's fellow airline passengers and almost 300 guests and staff at the Hong Kong hotel where he had checked in.
China has defended its strict H1N1 flu prevention measures, saying they were necessary to stop the virus spreading through Asia and to avoid "catastrophic consequences" in the world's most populous nation.
WHO - Influenza A(H1N1) - Update No:24
10 May 2009 -- As of 07:30 GMT, 10 May 2009, 29 countries have officially reported 4379 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
Yesterday (same GMT time) only 3440 cases were reported.
This means almost 1,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hour.
Stephen Flynn and Irwin Redlener
AC360° Contributors
We may have dodged a bullet – for now. If the strain of Swine Flu virus that is currently circulating the United States remains mild, our plans and capabilities for responding to a nationwide health care crisis will not be put to the test. That is a good thing because if our pandemic preparedness were to undergo a stress test today, it would fail.
Because panic can lead to misdirected energies that result in harmful outcomes, the Obama Administration and local leaders like New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg deserve high marks for providing a measured and reassuring tone in the face of the initial fear and uncertainty surrounding the H1N1 outbreak.
But now the hard work must begin.
President Obama needs to quickly seize upon this crisis to mobilize state and local governments and everyday Americans to better prepare our hospitals, communities, and homes for the task of protecting and saving lives during a virulent pandemic.
The sobering reality is that we have been living on borrowed time. Lethal, new, non-seasonal influenza outbreaks typically strike three to four times a century and we are overdue.
The H1N1 virus has all the microbial evolutionary attributes for producing our millennium’s first deadly pandemic: it is a new virus compounded from several distinct strains for which people have no natural immunity; it is transmissible among humans; and, it has caused fatalities in unexpected age groups.
The relatively mild form of the virus we are seeing now could mutate in the upcoming flu season in the southern hemisphere. Then we could see it back in our own communities next winter in a more virulent form.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a full-blown pandemic would result in approximately 90 million Americans become ill, and depending on the flu’s potency, with anywhere from 865,000 to 9,900,000 requiring hospitalization. To put that number into context, consider that the entire inventory of staffed hospital beds within the United States is 970,000 and virtually all of them are currently occupied.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/05/still-unprepared-for-a-lethal-pandemic/
It is T4 after its 1st active date (27/4/09). Perhaps, buyers who did not pay up their shares had their shares forced sold. If this is the case, I expect more force sales in the next couple of days.
However, its TDR on Taiwan Stock Exchange was last traded up NTD 0.52 at NTD 10.25 (about 47 cents). May be people in Taiwan see things which we don't see or vice versa. Who knows?
I thought face mask is out of stock in alot of countries. How come this stock drop so much on monday?
A very tough question. Hope that the following data will help you decide:
In Oct '07, some 69.79 ms were placed out to 17 placees at 14 cents per share.
FY '08 NAV per share = 10.65 US cents (about 15.8 S'pore cents).
The current flu A (H1N1) is likely to increase its revenue, but not sure what will be the impact on its EPS.
weekee1980 ( Date: 03-May-2009 20:04) Posted:
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I just see the chart in Taiwan.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=9103.TW#chart6:symbol=9103.tw;range=1m;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
It go up everyday after Monday.
I just call my broker today, he ask me to buy some Medtecs as "insurance".
Cos he say during the weekend, if the flu become worst, the market may drop on monday.
But Medtecs will rise, as it also reversed from the main market just like this monday, and tuesday.
He say if Medtecs break $0.115, it will go up all the way.
What did you guy think?
If 1 TDR is 5 Medtecs shares, then Medtecs on SGX should be 13.8cts
If 1 TDR is 4 Medtecs shares, then Medtecs on SGX should be 17.2cts
If 1 TDR is 3 Medtecs shares, then Medtecs on SGX should be 23cts
If 1 TDR is 2 Medtecs shares, then Medtecs on SGX should be 34.4cts
If 1 TDR is 1 Medtecs shares, then Medtecs on SGX should be 68.8cts
The last announcement I read was 1 TDR is 4 shares, but heard that there was a write-off in 1-of-4 in each TDR (can someone confirm? Thx).
Still Vested.
Coming 2nd result expected to be better than 1H
