The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are concerned that cross-strait tourism, trade exchanges, rampant smuggling and lack of transparency regarding epidemics in China will make that country the biggest obstacle to disease prevention in Taiwan.
Quoting a report from China's Ministry of Health in February, the CDC said that 4,608,910 people in China contracted a transmittable disease last year and that 10,726 died from such diseases.
The centers said the four biggest killers in China in the last two years were tuberculosis, rabies, AIDS and hepatitis B.
It said that the level of health care in China is not very good and uneven at best, which can be seen from the number of tuberculosis cases.
Cases of people contracting rabies, which no longer exists in Taiwan, were reported in Shanghai and Beijing and in Yunnan, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces last year.
Twenty-five cases of bird flu have been confirmed in China and of those cases, 16 died, the CDC said.
The five H5N1 permutations that have appeared around the world may all have their origin in Guangdong Province, it said.
Saying that the virus could now be firmly rooted in Guangdong Province, the CDC called on people traveling to the region to avoid contact with birds and wild animals, and asked any traveler who develops a fever to give a detailed account of their travels when consulting a doctor.
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
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