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Chen Zhu

Type: Person

Name: Chen Zhu

Title: Minister of Health (since April 2007)

Organization: Government of China

Date of Birth: dd/mm/1953

Place of Birth: Shanghai Municipality

Nationality: China

Fact Sheet: Biography for Chen Zhu

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Measures to contain swine flu failed to slow spread, say health experts

LONDON — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire aircraft loads of passengers were isolated if one traveller had symptoms — failed to contain the disease. Despite initially ... [Business Day - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Swine Flu, Quarantine, China

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

China’s A(H1N1) death count suspect: report

China may have had more A(H1N1) flu deaths than have been reported, with some local governments possibly concealing suspect cases, a prominent Chinese medical expert said in an interview published yesterday.Zhong Nanshan (鍾南山), a doctor based in Guangdong ... [Taipei Times Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: China, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Pneumonia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Swine Flu Quarantines Don't Work, Vaccine Safe

Radical measures, such as quarantines, are not likely to contain the H1N1 swine flu from infecting larger numbers of the world’s population, experts said Thursday.China first announced that its drastic measures had been successful in suppressing the virus, ... [Red Orbit - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Vaccine, Quarantine, Swine Flu, Virus, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)

China battles surge in swine flu

By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing Stringent border controls did not prevent H1N1 spreading into China China is fighting a rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases after initially appearing to have the outbreak under control.The ministry of health ... [BBC - 11/03/2009]

Entities: China, Swine Flu, Virus

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 2 Documents

Russian is first expat H1N1 death in China

The prognosis for foreigners in China was questioned yesterday after the death of the first expat on the Chinese mainland from the A/H1N1 flu virus.The 32-year-old Russian man died in Beijing after recently flying to the city from Russia, the local health ... [China Securities Journal Net - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Influenza A H1N1 Virus, China, Beijing, Swine Flu Vaccine

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

World Health Organization

WHO official says Chinese vaccine safe

The World Health Organization's representative in China hopes to give the country's H1N1 vaccine a shot in the arm.That is, by receiving one.Michael O'Leary said yesterday the Chinese-made vaccine has been proven safe and effective and he is willing to ... [CHINAdaily - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Vaccine, World Health Organization, China, Chen Zhu, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Vaccine makers shine on bourses

Shares prices of domestic vaccine makers rose sharply yesterday on surging orders for vaccines, as fears grew over a fresh outbreak of the H1N1 flu, even as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.83 percentVaccine producer Hualan Biological rose ... [People's Daily Online - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Vaccine, Shenzhen, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Govt injects urgency into flu jabs

With the country bracing for a surge in A(H1N1) flu infections in the coming months, China's top epidemiologist is urging more people to be inoculated against the disease. A medical worker from the Suzhou center for disease control and prevention in Jiangsu ... [CHINAdaily - 10/31/2009]

Entities: China, Vaccine, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents

China's Wen warns of "grim" flu prevention task

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday warned the country faced an "extremely grim" job to prevent the spread of the H1N1 flu strain, calling on more people to be vaccinated and for vaccine production to be raised."At present, the ... [InSing.com - 10/31/2009]

Entities: China, Chen Zhu, Vaccine

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Mainland reports 7th H1N1 flu death

CHANGSHA：The Chinese mainland Monday reported its seventh death from A(H1N1) flu in central Hunan Province.The patient, a 14-year-old middle school student in Changning City, died of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral hernia and respiratory failure Saturday ... [CHINAdaily - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Vaccine, Beijing

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Risk of 'massive' rise in flu deaths, minister says

Without adequate precautions, a massive number of swine flu deaths on the mainland were inevitable, Health Minister Chen Zhu said, as state media reported yesterday that a seventh person had died from the disease.Chen's comments, made at a meeting in ... [South China Morning Post - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Risk (Health), Vaccine, Swine Flu, Chen Zhu, Inoculum

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents

Food Safety Minister To Australia And China

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson leaves New Zealand today for a week of meetings with Australian and Chinese counterparts.In Brisbane tomorrow she will represent the government at the biannual meeting. On Saturday she will arrive in Beijing to engage ... [Voxy.co.nz - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand, China, Australia

Quotes

"chronic diseases such as diabetes are becoming public health challenges" said Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu to an audience of more than 600 delegates, including government officials, medical professionals, and experts...

Diabetes Threat is Ignored and Under-Funded Across the World: Kofi Annan [MedIndia - 11/04/2009]

But it has now turned its efforts to controlling the virus inside China. "the epidemic has entered a period of high incidence earlier than we expected and the infected cases are rapidly increasing" said Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu

China battles surge in swine flu [BBC - 11/03/2009]

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China’s A(H1N1) death count suspect: report [Taipei Times Online - 11/20/2009]
Measures to contain swine flu failed to slow sp... [Business Day - 11/20/2009]
Effectiveness of Chinese control measures debated [NPR - 11/19/2009]
Swine Flu Quarantines Don't Work, Vaccine Safe [Red Orbit - 11/19/2009]
Nation's 1.5m swine flu jabs a day [New Zealand Herald - 11/19/2009]
Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu [GMA News.tv - 11/19/2009]
Safe flu vaccines are being produced en masse t... [Beijing Review - 11/19/2009]
Striking Hard at A/H1N1 [Beijing Review - 11/16/2009]
Chinese Sea Turtles Return Home [MSNBC Newsweek - 11/14/2009]
Dr Elias Zerhouni Picks the 7 Most Powerful Peo... [Forbes.com via MSN Money - 11/13/2009]
Fees for A/H1N1 Vaccine Face Punishment [China Development Gateway - 11/05/2009]
Fees for H1N1 vaccine face punishment [CHINAdaily - 11/05/2009]
Diabetes Threat is Ignored and Under-Funded Acr... [MedIndia - 11/04/2009]
Russian is first expat H1N1 death in China [China Securities Journal Net - 11/04/2009]
Accept the H1N1 vaccination or not, that is a q... [People's Daily Online - 11/04/2009]
China battles surge in swine flu [BBC - 11/03/2009]
Chinese Mainland Reports 7th A/H1N1 Flu Death [China Development Gateway - 11/03/2009]
More H1N1 cases stoking public fears [CHINAdaily - 11/03/2009]
Risk of 'massive' rise in flu deaths, minister ... [South China Morning Post - 11/02/2009]
Mainland reports 7th H1N1 flu death [CHINAdaily - 11/02/2009]
China's Wen warns of "grim" flu preve... [InSing.com - 10/31/2009]
Govt injects urgency into flu jabs [CHINAdaily - 10/31/2009]
WHO official says Chinese vaccine safe [CHINAdaily - 10/28/2009]
WHO China chief gives vote of trust to Chinese ... [CHINAdaily - 10/28/2009]
Vaccine makers shine on bourses [People's Daily Online - 10/28/2009]
Public cringes at vaccine shot [CHINAdaily - 10/25/2009]
China to rein in fake drug ads in cyber space [CHINAdaily - 10/23/2009]
Food Safety Minister To Australia And China [Voxy.co.nz - 10/22/2009]
China reports 1st H1N1 death [Straits Times - 10/06/2009]
Millions could get swine flu in China: official [AFP via Yahoo! - 09/11/2009]

Blogs

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More H1N1 cases stoking public fears in China [H5N1 - 11/03/2009] Via China Daily: More H1N1 cases stoking public fears in China. Excerpt:In October, the H1N1 flu pandemic killed seven people on the Chinese mainland, stoking the ...
China: Public cringes at vaccine shot [H5N1 - 10/26/2009] Via China Daily: Public cringes at vaccine shot. Excerpt:More than 54 percent of Chinese people do not plan to receive the A/H1N1 flu vaccine because they doubt ...
China sees tougher flu control work in western ... [H5N1 - 10/19/2009] Thanks to the reader who sent the link to this report in China Daily: China sees tougher flu control work in western regions. Excerpt:China's Ministry of Health ...
China reports first death from H1N1 flu [H5N1 - 10/06/2009] Via Reuters: China reports first death from H1N1 flu. Excerpt:China on Tuesday reported its first death from the H1N1 flu strain after weeks on alert against the ...
China: 18,285 cases [H5N1 - 09/29/2009] Via Xinhua: A/H1N1 flu cases in Chinese mainland top 18,000. Excerpt:The Chinese mainland had reported18,285 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 influenza by Monday, about ...

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