MetaFilter posts tagged with china and health

Chinese urge Caution while pursuing Lust

Geezum Crowe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:50:14 -0800

In the wake of a highly sexified Ang Lee film, Chinese medical authorities have warned the public against "abnormal body positions". Links SFW.

Chinese Public Health Posters

mediareport — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:38:52 -0800

Chinese Public Health Posters from the 1930s to SARS. [via]

Unconfirmed mini-outbreak of H5N1 in China

chakalakasp — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:56:51 -0800

China isn't known for being open about most things, including the spread of deadly diseases. (Many will remember China's original attempt to cover up SARS. As the International Society for Infectious Diseases reports, a prominent WHO virologist has made a claim that China has now experienced at least 300 human avian flu deaths and is actively attempting to cover this information up. "We are systematically deceived," he is reported to have said. "At least 5 medical co-workers who should be reporting on the situation in the provinces were arrested, and [other] publication-willing researchers were threatened with punishments."

Meta Smoking - who needs a filter!

daksya — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:50:18 -0800

What's China Smoking?

Poison and Profits

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 08 May 2004 23:02:28 -0800

Ling Chan gave up everything to come to America. "Chan arrived in the United States with no knowledge of English, no support network, and a dependent child...she was happy to land a janitorial job with AXT Inc., a Fremont, California semiconductor manufacturing firm...on a four-person cleaning crew, scrubbing the boxes used to ship semiconductor wafers around the factory...after a few weeks, her colleagues -- mostly Chinese immigrants, like herself -- whispered that this was no ordinary dust: It could give you cancer." [via Fark, of all places]

Chinese Spitting Ban

scarabic — Tue, 27 May 2003 17:48:14 -0800

Why a ban on spitting is catching in the throats of Chinese. Apparently, spitting in public is very common in China. "They consider phlegm excrement," explained a coworker of mine who recently visited Shanghai. With SARS spreading in airborne saliva and mucous particles (aka respiratory secretions, China has had to tackle the challenge of outlawing a practice as "common as breathing."

AIDS in China

homunculus — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:47:51 -0800

"China's catastrophic mismanagement of its AIDS crisis has come to this: Xie Yan is trying to give away her son. Ms. Xie's husband died last year of AIDS, and she has the virus as well. They are the victims of government-backed blood-selling schemes that have left about one million people infected here in Henan Province in central China. Multiply Ms. Xie's heartache a millionfold, and you understand the cost of the Chinese government's cover-up of its AIDS crisis. If China continues to be more concerned with hiding the tragedy than confronting it, then today's Chinese leaders could kill millions of people over the next two decades. We in the West must exert strong pressure on China to act quickly to address the AIDS challenge."

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 05 May 2001 15:15:03 -0800

Pssst -- buddy, wanta buy a kidney? There is a regular trade from China of transplant organs taken from executed prisoners. People from the US have been travelling there and buying organs, then coming back to the US. Should we do anything about this, and if so what?