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[bookemdanno]

Big Bird:

Yes, sanitary conditions in rural areas are very lacking.

The worst single thing I ever observed was a huge metal bowl filled with syringes and glass tubes which were used for blood work with hot water from the tap running over them in a men's bathroom at the No.1 hospital in Zhaotong, in the mountains of northeast Yunnan Province in 2004. Yes, they planned to reuse them again.

Death toll now at 15,000.

Chris_J2:

Thanks for the heads-up; I dearly hope you are wrong, though.

The photos of mothers holding their dead children is almost more than I can bear.

[chris_J2]

The heads up was well deserved, Mr Hawaii 5-0! I'm hoping that the press release of 60,000 missing I quoted from, is wrong, too. I've been to China 6 times, & visited the earthquake memorial in Tianjin last year. Have also been to Chengdu in 2002. Those were happier times.

http://www.trekearth.com/viewphotos.php?l=7&p=174968

http://www.trekearth.com/map.php?ctr=China&member=ChrisJ

[Czarjorge]

It could have been worse had it hit the dam.

[mises]

Yeah, agreed. Apparently the dam is at risk..

[chris_J2]

I think czarjorge was referring to the 3 gorges dam, downstream of Chongqing. It wasn't affected by the quake. But if the dams in the quake zone collapse, that may threaten the 3 gorges dam 400 km or so downstream.