【新唐人2013年04月05日讯】上海“卫生和计划委员会”4月4号晚通报，又有一人因感染H7N9禽流感而死亡，死者是从事鸡鸭运输工作的48岁男子，江苏人。这是中国大陆因感染H7N9禽流感病毒致死的第4人。
中共在十年前隐瞒、掩盖萨斯(SARS)疫情，导致疫情蔓延，给民众造成的恐慌，至今仍然挥之不去。人们现在都在担心十年前的悲剧是否会重演﹗因此，习、李新政如何来应对接班后的第1个考验，就成为外界关注的焦点之一。
4月3号，浙江省卫生厅通报，浙江省确诊2例感染H7N9禽流感病例，其中1例患者死亡。加上之前上海死亡的2人，截至记者截稿时，中国因感染H7N9禽流感死亡病例已有3人，而感染H7N9禽流感的病例也由之前的7人增加到9人。
不过，《香港电台》报导说，来自上海市第五人民医院的消息指称，上海至今共有4名出现类似症状的患者死亡，这与官方公布的死亡总数有出入。
上海防疫中心工作人员表示，H7N9这个病毒到底是从哪里传过来的，是否“人传人”暂时还不确定。
上海防疫中心工作人员：“目前现在到底是死猪还是死鸭，还是什么这个目前还不确定，目前针对H7N9还没有疫苗，请您关注一下媒体，官方媒体关注一下，我是建议您这种网上的东西，尽量去不要相信，还是尽量关注官方媒体。”
美国中文媒体《大纪元时报》报导，十年前的“萨斯（SARS）”疫情，最初在中国南方爆发，当时中共党魁江泽民为了所谓的维稳，扬言：“以稳定求繁荣，不惜死200万。”报导说，《中央电视台》如何报导“萨斯”都由江泽民决定。中共内部还传达了江泽民的命令，任何一个地方爆发“萨斯”，当地官员就地免职。
于是地方各级政府官员都不敢将“萨斯”疫情上报，各自谋划策略，千方百计“歼灭”和隐瞒“萨斯”。
许多观察家认为，这种有意的忽视，造成疫情失去控制，致使“萨斯”疫情蔓延20多个省市，近30个国家，8,000多人感染，8百多患者死亡，造成三百亿美元的经济损失。
十年前给人们造成的伤害至今尚存。随着感染H7N9禽流感人数和死亡人数的增加，人们倍感惶恐，人们把目光都移到习、李所谓的新政上面，人们都在看，习、李将如何应对，希望历史不要重演。
时事评论员司马泰表示，在中共独裁体制下，隐瞒事实真相，已经成了中共一个传统的惯性，中共总是隐瞒所谓负面的消息。司马泰认为，中共根本不关心老百姓的生命，似乎老百姓的命不值钱。
时事评论员 司马泰：“当年SARS完了以后，共产党它们内部也在反思。它的第一反应还是要去隐瞒。但是，开始比过去好一点，因为它也不敢太隐瞒，因为到时传播起来的话，不就重蹈SARS的覆辙。所以它就在往外公布一点点，给人感觉好像他也是很透明。”
时事评论员林子旭认为，H7N9禽流感疫情的出现，对习、李来讲是一个考验。
时事评论员林子旭：“如果中共现在不主动面对这个问题，有关这个病毒的讯息必然会在网路微博里面快速传播，中共就会被逼到死角里，中共的网警如果删贴，必然会引起老百姓强烈不满，要命的消息如果都不让说，民众是不会坐以待毙的。”
林子旭指出，假如中共如实报导，真相被披露出来，那么，中共不顾民众死活，只顾政权利益的做法一旦被老百姓知道，将会对中共政权造成冲击。
而疫情如果真的扩大，单单就中共隐瞒第一例病例近一个月，就会让老百姓痛恨不已。而且，一旦公开报导疫情，林子旭认为，很有可能会打开舆论的缺口，这都是让中共非常害怕的。
Deadly H7N9 Bird Flu Breaks Out in China – a Test for Xi-Li
On April 4, Shanghai authorities announced that
another person has died of avian flu H7N9 virus.
The 48-year-old victim worked delivering
of chickens and ducks in Jiangsu Province.
This is the fourth person to have died recently
from the H7N9 virus in Mainland China.
Ten years ago, when SARS first broke out in China,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) covered it up.
The SARS epidemic spread out of
control, which caused lasting concern.
When similar events occur again, people will become more
concerned that the tragedy of a decade ago will repeat itself.
Therefore, the international community are now focused on
how Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will deal with this outbreak.
On April 3, the Zhejiang Provincial Health Department
announced that
there were two people who had been infected with H7N9,
one of whom has already died.
Plus the two deaths in Shanghai, three people have
died after being infected with H7N9.
In total, the number of those infected has
increased from 7 to 9 on the official database.
However, Radio Television Hong Kong has reported
information from the Fifth People’s Hospital of Shanghai.
Four patients have died with similar symptoms.
This number is different from the official figures available.
A staff member from the Shanghai Centers for
Disease Control said that
it’s not clear where the H7N9 virus came from
or whether it can be “infectious person to person”.
A staff member of the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control:
“At present, is it from dead pigs, dead ducks or some other source?
We are not sure. Also there’s no H7N9 vaccine
which is currently available.
Please read the media, read the official media.
I suggest you that don’t trust the information online.
It’s better for you to just focus on the official media.”
The U.S. Chinese media The Epoch Times has reported that
ten years ago, when SARS started spreading
from the south of China,
the CCP leader Jiang Zemin only took care of stability,
threatened “to maintain stability at all costs,
it was not even a pity that
two million people had died.”
The report also pointed out that how CCTV reported SARS
was decided solely by Jiang Zemin.
The CCP also distributed an internal order from Jiang
that if any local source reported a SARS infection,
the local official in charge would be fired.
At that time local officials didn’t dare to report
the SARS epidemic.
They tried their best at finding ways to hide and
cover up the epidemic.
Many observers believe that this intentional neglect
caused the epidemic to spin out of control,
finally it spread to 20 provinces, and nearly 30 countries,
with over 8,000 people infected, more than 800 of whom died.
In total, the loss to the economy
reached the figure of 30 billion USD.
People still feel the hurt to this day, which is why they feel
even more scared with the increasing number of
infections and reported deaths.
They look to the Xi – Li government and what it will do
to make sure that history will not repeat itself.
Sima Tai, a political affairs’ commentator said that in the
CCP dictatorship, covering up the truth has become a tradition.
The CCP always hides negative news. Si Ma Tai feels the CCP
doesn’t care about people’s lives, which are worthless in it’s eyes.
Sima Tai: ”After SARS, the CCP has reflected internally.
However, it’s first reaction is still to cover up
although it’ll be better than before.
The CCP is worried that the H7N9 outbreak will repeat the
scandal of the SARS cover -up if they hide the truth too much,
So they have published a little bit of news on line,
that at first glance looks transparent”
Lin Zixu, a Political commentator says that,
the H7N9 bird flu outbreak is a crucial test for Xi-Li.
Lin Zixu: “If the CCP doesn’t face this issue actively now,
the related information must be spread rapidly by
micro-blog which will push things into a dead end.
If the webmasters of the CCP dare to delete related blogs,
people will be strongly dissatisfied.
If the truth related to people’s life is blocked,
people won’t sit and wait for death this time.”
Lin Zixu has pointed out that, if the CCP reports the truth,
or if the truth is unveiled by people, then Chinese people
will know that the CCP only cares for its own benefit.
The Chinese people will know its government doesn’t care
for the lives of it’s people, this will impact the regime.
If the epidemic ends up expanding, people will hate the CCP
because it hid the first infected case for almost a month.
Furthermore, Lin Zixu says that, once the public is allowed
to report the epidemic, a door to free express ion will open,
this is something that the CCP is very scared of.
