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Medicine and Health Care in China |
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Medical, Medicine and Health Care in China |
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Medical Examination Report for Foreigners |
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What happens if I get sick? |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Malaria |
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Malaria Information |
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Blood Transfusion |
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Hepatitis Travel Advisory |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Hepatitis B |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Hepatitis C |
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Tetanus |
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Typhoid and Typhus Fever |
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Rabies |
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Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis) |
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Listeriosis (Listeria) |
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Influenza, Japanese Encephalitis & Legionellosis (Legionnaires Disease) |
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Influenza Fact Sheet |
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Prepare, Don't Panic About Bird Flu |
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Common Sense Can Help People Protect Themselves Against A Bird Flu Pandemic |
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Bird Flu Fact File |
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We're Suffering A Pandemic Of Panic |
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W.H.O. World Life Expectancy - 2002 |
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W.H.O. Healthy Life Expectancy 2002 |
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Related Articles, Useful Information & Guides to Medicine & Health in China |
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Personal Experiences with health and health facilities in China |
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Educational Articles & Links about health & medicine in China |
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 Official China Government Medical Examination Report for Foreigners |
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Official Government Medical Examination Report for Foreigners applying for certain types of Visas for entry to China. |
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What happens if I get sick in China? |
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 In Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing and other large cities, various
specialized hospitals of tumor, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, ophthalmologic and dental diseases, traditional Chinese
medicine and infectious diseases can be found, in addition to general hospitals. |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Malaria |
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 Malaria: Malaria risk—including P. falciparum malaria—occurs in Hainan
and Yunnan. Multidrug-resistant P. falciparum has been reported. Risk of P. vivax malaria exists in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou,
Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang (only along the valley of the Zangbo river in the extreme south-east) and Yunnan. |
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Malaria Information |
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Malaria is a common and life-threatening disease in many tropical and subtropical areas. It is currently endemic in over 100 countries, which are
visited by more than 125 million international travellers every year. Each year many international travellers fall ill with malaria while visiting countries where the disease is endemic, and well
over 10 000 fall ill after returning home. |
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Blood Transfusion |
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 In many developing countries, safe blood products and the expertise to prescribe and carry out safe transfusion are not available in health care
facilities. The risks associated with unsafe blood transfusion are: |
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Hepatitis Travel Advisory |
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The virus is acquired directly from infected persons by the faecal–oral route or by close contact, or by consumption of contaminated food or
drinking-water. There is no insect vector or animal reservoir (although some non-human primates are sometimes infected).Travellers who are non-immune to hepatitis A (i.e. have never had the
disease and have not been vaccinated) should take particular care to avoid potentially contaminated food and water. |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Hepatitis B |
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Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of mankind and is a serious global
public health problem. It is preventable with safe and effective vaccines that have been available since 1982. Of the 2 billion people who have been infected
with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), more than 350 million have chronic (lifelong) infections. These chronically infected persons are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of
the liver and liver cancer, diseases that kill about one million persons each year. |
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W.H.O. China Travel Advisory - Hepatitis C |
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Hepatitis C is a viral infection of the liver which had been referred to as
parenterally1 transmitted "non A, non B hepatitis" until identification of the causative agent in 1989. The discovery and characterization of the hepatitis C
virus (HCV) led to the understanding of its primary role in post-transfusion hepatitis and its tendency to induce persistent infection. |
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Tetanus |
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Tetanus is acquired through environmental exposure to the spores of Clostridium tetani, which are present in soil worldwide. The disease is
caused by the action of a potent neurotoxin produced by the bacterium in dead tissue (e.g. dirty wounds). |
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Typhoid & Typhus Fever |
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Infection is transmitted by consumption of contaminated food or water. Occasionally direct faecal–oral transmission may occur. Shellfish taken from
sewage-polluted beds are an important source of infection. Infection occurs through eating fruit and vegetables fertilized by night soil and eaten raw, and milk and
milk products that have been contaminated by those in contact with them |
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Rabies |
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease affecting a wide range of domestic and wild animals, including bats. Infection of humans usually occurs through the
bite of an infected animal. The virus is present in the saliva. Any other contact involving penetration of the skin occurring in an area where rabies is present should be treated with caution. In
developing countries transmission is usually from dogs. |
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Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis) |
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Avoid direct contact (swimming or wading) with potentially contaminated fresh water in endemic areas. In case of accidental exposure, dry the skin
vigorously to reduce penetration by cercariae. Avoid drinking, washing, or washing clothing in water that may contain cercariae. Water can be treated to
remove or inactivate cercariae by paper filtering or use of iodine or chlorine. |
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Listeriosis (Listeria) |
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Listeriosis affects a variety of animals. Food borne infection in humans occurs through the consumption of contaminated foods, particularly
unpasteurized milk, soft cheeses, vegetables and prepared meat products such as pâté. Listeriosis multiplies readily in refrigerated foods that have been contaminated, unlike most food borne
pathogens. |
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Influenza, Japanese Encephalitis & Legionellosis (Legionnaires Disease) |
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Travellers, like local residents, are at risk in any country during the influenza season. Travellers visiting countries in the opposite
hemisphere during the influenza season are at special risk, particularly if they have not built up some degree of immunity through regular vaccination. |
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Influenza Fact Sheet |
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Three times in the last century, the influenza A viruses have undergone major genetic changes mainly in their H-component, resulting in global
pandemics and large tolls in terms of both disease and deaths. The most infamous pandemic was "Spanish Flu" which affected large parts of the world population and is thought to have killed at
least 40 million people in 1918-1919 |
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Prepare, Don't Panic About Bird Flu |
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 There are at least 15 different types of avian influenza that routinely infect birds
around the world. The current outbreak is caused by a strain known as H5N1, which is highly contagious among birds and rapidly fatal. Unlike many other
strains of avian influenza, it can be transmitted to humans, causing severe illness and death. Bird flu is not the same as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). |
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Common Sense Can Help People Protect Themselves Against A Bird Flu Pandemic |
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Little can be done to prevent an outbreak of bird flu if it comes in the next year or so before vaccine production can get started, health
experts caution, but they say common sense measures can help individuals protect themselves. |
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Bird Flu Fact File |
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has infected at least 117 people in Asia, killing 60 in
the last two years. Here are some facts about bird flu and how it differs from common human flu: |
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We're Suffering A Pandemic Of Panic |
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A PANDEMIC-obsessed world can be a frightening place. Pick up any newspaper, watch TV or listen to the radio and you are sure to be confronted by
headlines or images declaring that a new global killer is coming, that we have a ticking time bomb in our backyard, that we are in a race to prevent a calamitous pandemic and that millions of
people are at risk. |
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W.H.O. World Life Expectancy - 2002 |
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A list of the World's countries and life expectencies |
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W.H.O. Healthy Life Expectancy 2002 |
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 Healthy life expectancy of China population with Western Comparisons. |
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Culture Shock. Trouble writes "My TESOL book contained all of two pages on culture shock. All it did was detail out the stages of
culture shock, and reminded the reader that it gets really bad at three months. Since they didn't really dwell on it, I didn't really dwell on it either, which is why I was completely unprepared
for the breakdown I had two weeks after coming to China. |
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