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Health

General links and information

• Pingtung Country Health Bureau
  • Their English page
    • A very useful glossary. Please note that English links for government sites in Taiwan often change. If they do, try finding what you're looking for via the Chinese home page. There's usually an English link somewhere.
• Chinese herb dictionary
• http://mims.com/ - This site appears to be a good resource. You need to create a free account to use it.
• List of medicinal plants of the Philippines
• Snakes of Taiwan
• An xls file with English and Chinese names for an odd mix of plants and compounds can be found at http://formosahut.com/files/medplants.xls.

Hospitals

• Mackay Memorial Hospital Taitung - 分院地址：台東市長沙街303巷1號　TEL: 089-310150 | 1, Lane 303, Changsha Street, Taitung
• Taitung Christian Hospital - 院址：95048台東市開封街350號 TEL: 089-960888 | 350 Kai Feng Street, Taitung

Water filtration

• Carbon filters and RO systems info
• More on carbon pdf
• Interesting article on use of charcoal for pesticide removal in Thailand
• Doulton filters
• Matrikx filters
• Most of the common 3-stage filters in Taiwan take the 10" long, 2.5" diameter filters

H7N9

• 130423 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/23/us-birdflu-china-idUSBRE93L0EF20130423 "Investigations into the possible sources of infection and reservoirs of the virus are ongoing," the World Health Organization said on Monday. "Until the source of infection has been identified, it is expected that there will be further cases of human infection with the virus in China. The WHO's China representative, Michael O'Leary, issued data on Friday showing that half of the patients analyzed had no known contact with poultry, but he said it appeared human-to-human transmission was rare.Some bird samples have tested positive and China has culled thousands of birds and shut down some live poultry markets.
• 130424 http://news.yahoo.com/says-bird-strain-one-most-lethal-flu-viruses-072106064.html WHO says new bird strain is "one of most lethal" flu viruses. " BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday." Backed up at http://formosahut.com/h7n9/h7n9130424a.pdf.
• 130425 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/04/25/376959/Containment-begins.htm - Containment begins as H7N9 spreads to Taiwan

nCoV

• 130512 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/12/us-coronavirus-france-idUSBRE94A04R20130512

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