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China disinfects town where plague killed 3rd man

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Authorities urged anyone who had visited the town — more
than 300 miles (480 kilometers) west of Beijing — since mid-July and
has developed a cough or fever to seek hospital treatment. Pneumonic plague
is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through
coughing.

Book:

A
Slight Epidemic...: The Government Cover-Up of Bubonic Plague in a Major
American City

Review:

Mr. Feldinger is an adept and engaging story-teller, bringing to life
a murderous government plot against LA's Latino community near the beginning
of the 20th century. It's a non-fiction horror story. Worse, he outlines
how it could easily happen again.

The story may be nearly a century old, but the villains still exist today,
namely government agencies and a self-serving health care system. LA city
health officers willfully misdiagnosed the first cases of bubonic plague
in a Latino neighborhood. They were supported and encouraged by bigoted,
greedy politicians. As a result numerous lives were lost. In at least
one case, nearly an entire extended family was wiped out. Their neighborhood
was nearly destroyed in an effort to "cleanse" the area of the
disease they denied was there- the bubonic plague.

The book is a gripping account of what does happen, and what should absolutely
not happen, in the case of a deadly epidemic. Feldinger breathes life
back into people long dead- the villains and the heroes- of this story
that has never been fully told

According to the World Health Organization, pneumonic plague
is one of the deadliest infectious diseases, capable of killing a person
24 hours after he or she gets the disease

Pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria that causes bubonic plague
— the Black Death that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe
in the Middle Ages. However, bubonic plague is usually transmitted by
flea bites and can be easily treated with antibiotics.

 

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Reviewer:

This 1932 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is still a standout today. Deceptive
in its simplicity, it is a story built around a flawed human being and
a teetering socio-economic system, as well as one that is layered with
profound themes. The cadence of the author's writing is also of note,
as it rhythmically lends itself to the telling of the story, giving it
a very distinct voice. No doubt the author's writing style was influenced
by her own immersion in Chinese culture, as she grew up and lived in China,
the daughter of missionaries.

Opinion:

China seems to be taking its health threats much more seriously than the leaders of the United States. While China is dealing in reality, Washington seems much more interested
in passing unworkable laws, Bureaucracy, to cripple the American Health Care System while using their "deforms" to rob the American taxpayer.

Healthcare is too important to waste resources on smoking mirrors and foolishness as seems to be the impulse of Democrats and Republicans alike. It is important to have enough hospitals, clinics, doctors, and nurses to deal with health threats, than to divert resources from actual health care to Insurance and Bureaucracy.

States are better able to manage their health care systems at the local level than the Federal Government is. Instead of the Federal Government robbing resources from the states, and crippling states from being able to deal with local problems, the Federal Government should work with the states to see that the states health care systems are properly funded for ordinary healthcare as well as potential epidemics.

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Article: Other Site: Article on Chinese Health System

In the 1950's China's health care system was largely smoking mirrors, BS on preventive medicine, and major Bureaucracy. In the 1970's / 1980's they began dealing more in reality which means they looked at demographics and began to figure how they can serve the population that is going to have health problems. China's life span went from 32 in 1950 to 69 in 1980. And it should be noted that China went from a Government only Health Care System to a System that was more Industrial Based for the workers and that was more local in nature.

I am by no means holding the Chinese Health Care System up as a model but rather I am trying to explain that the system the USA built from the 1930's forward is not so flawed it needs to be scrapped with socialized or communist medicine. America has a higher life span than most other countries in large part because we have been the pioneers in medical care based in local and industrial work. Other countries, even communist countries, have been looking at the USA as a model and then here comes the Clintons and the Obamas with a bunch of foolishness.

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