China Update -- Four Plagues at the Same Time !

The FOUR are:

Coronavirus

African Swine Fever, 

H5N1 Bird Flu, 

H1N1 Swine Flu,

The world 

is alarmed

over the

2019-nCoV 

coronavirus 

But ...

the coronavirus 

outbreak is just 

the latest plague 

to hit China !

Also,

President Trump

has sort of been

a "plague" for the

Chinese economy

too, so maybe 

I should say 

"FIVE" plagues ?

Coronavirus  

Reporting

Accuracy

I am very skeptical 

that official numbers 

coming out of China 

are accurate.

There have been 

multiple reports 

that indicate China 

has been falsely 

categorizing deaths 

of many victims, 

to keep the death 

toll down.

It is also suspicious 

that so many corpses 

are being taken directly 

from the hospitals 

to crematoriums,

in buses, after they die.

Here's a Johns Hopkins

US based estimate of the

number of cases:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

African Swine Fever

This disease has already

devastated pork farms, 

from one end of China, 

to the other.  

There's 

no vaccine 

for “pig ebola”, 

and no cure.

There is no 

official pig census,

but it was believed 

that before this crisis, 

up to half the pigs 

in the entire world 

lived in China.

And up to 

two-thirds 

of China’s pigs

have already  

been lost.

Those numbers 

suggest that 

about 25% to 35%

of all the pigs 

in the entire world 

have already died.

And this crisis 

is not over !

Contrary to official 

government reports

of recovery in China, 

more pigs are dying

every day.

China used to 

slaughter and eat 

about 700 million 

pigs each year.

But now Chinese

pork production 

has collapsed, 

so pork prices are 

at an all-time high, 

at just under $300 

per hundredweight.

Food inflation is soaring, 

and many Chinese people 

have been unable, 

or unwilling, to buy pork,

in the past six months.

This insidious disease 

has spread, especially

to Cambodia, North Korea, 

South Korea, Vietnam and 

the Philippines.

Fortunately, 

African Swine 

Fever does not 

affect humans.

H5N1 Bird Flu

We hadn't heard much 

about the H5N1 bird flu 

in recent years.

There's a very alarming 

resurgence of the 

H5N1 bird flu in China.

A ‘highly pathogenic’ 

strain of H5N1 bird flu 

killed 4,500 chickens.

The outbreak started 

at a farm in Shaoyang, 

in the southern province 

of Hunan, south of the 

Coronavirus in Wuhan.

Reuters and

The Daily Mail 

both reported that

Chinese authorities 

have already culled 

17,828 chickens.

Unlike African 

Swine Fever, 

humans can 

become infected 

by H5N1 bird flu.

The World Health 

Organization says

the mortality rate 

for human cases 

is a shocking 60% ! 

The H5N1 

bird flu 

was recently 

identified 

at a facility 

in India.

And H1N1 flu virus 

has claimed 13 

human lives 

in Taiwan, 

in just one week, 

according to the 

U.S. Centers for 

Disease Control 

         ( CDC ).

CDC Deputy 

Director-General 

Chuang Jen-hsiang 

said 116,705 people 

in Taiwan sought 

medical treatment 

for flu-like symptoms, 

at hospitals all across 

the country over the 

past week, leading to

61 more confirmed 

H1N1 flu cases

in Taiwan.