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Breathing in China can be a danger to your health.
Pollution in Beijing reached the “hazardous” level on March 17 before dropping back down to “very unhealthy” later in the weekend.
The air is monitored by the US Embassy air monitor, a trusted source around the globe.
Visibility at the Beijing international airport on Saturday was less than 650 feet, forcing over 400 flights to be cancelled or delayed.
Experts say air pollution will be the biggest health threat in the country unless the government steps in to reduce emissions and publicize the hazards. Related diseases are rising quickly.
The biggest culprits? Factory emissions, vehicle exhaust and cigarette smoke.
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A 39-year-old man in southern China died from the avian flu on New Year’s Eve.
The man was hospitalized on December 21 as he battled a fever and later tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus. He had not traveled out of the city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.
Scientists have now confirmed the strain can not pass between humans, and that the man had contacted H5N1 directly from a contaminated chicken. This was the first confirmed human case in over 18 months.
This summer the United Nations warned of a possible resurgence of the virus, a variant strain of H5N1 that can bypass the defenses of current vaccines.
The UN says the new strain currently threatens China, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Japan and the Korean peninsula.
Beijing’s air is hazardous.
The rating comes from the US Embassy air monitor, a trusted source around the globe.
Sadly, Beijing’s pollution level has literally gone off the charts and is currently listed as “beyond index.”
Over the past week, much of China has been blanketed in smog as hundreds of flights were grounded in Beijing, the country’s capital.
Chinese citizens are outraged about the quality of the air while their government discounts the severity of the issue, with some reports listing the smog as weather related.
China emits more carbon dioxide than any other country. Unfortunately, its pollution has no boundaries - the cloud that’s been hanging over Beijing can reach the US in about 5 days.
Are China and the US prepping for World War III?
Signs indicate yes, as China continues to build its military system and the US creates a full-time base in northern Australia.
Unsure if there’s building tension? Just this year China has refused U.S. Navy vessels admission to its ports, as it simultaneously sophisticates its military’s technology.
The US has also been angered by China’s lackluster response to North Korean attacks on South Korea over the past two years.
Obama recently stated in a speech that “The notion that we fear China is mistaken. The notion that we are looking to exclude China is mistaken… We welcome a rising, peaceful China.”
However, he added that “It’s important for them to play by the rules of the road and, in fact, help underwrite the rules that have allowed so much remarkable economic progress.”
The largest such deployment since World War II, the U.S. move into Darwin, Australia will start in early 2012 with a company of 200-250 marines. A total of 2,500 U.S. troops will eventually settle in the port city, along with ships, aircraft and enhanced training.
Darwin sits in Australia’s northern territory, one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world.
