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I am sure Chinese PR types are absolutely apoplectic with concern over the proMED reports coming out of Wanjiakou Village, Xiaoguan Town, Wensind City, Shandong Province.  Apparently, some sort of hemorrhagic fever has broken out there.

Details are sketchy to say the least, but according to the proMED report's citation, it spread quickly and at least three villagers are dead.  A half-dozen or so are in treatment.  The first death, a man, turned dark purple and began bleeding from his mouth, nostrils, ears and eyes before he died.

Naturally, the villagers are extremely shaken by the experience. 

the person who sent the alert is Dr. Stephen O. Cunnion, the national security health policy director for the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.  Lest we glodd over that info, proMED reminds us that it was none other than Dr. Cunnion who first sounded the alarm bells to proMED on a curious respiratory disease in 2003 that later became known as SARS.  So Dr. Cunnion is at least battling 1.000 on his disease alert front.

We will see what transpires.  ProMED lists the odds of hantavirus being the culprit at 57%, and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever at less than 1%.

Hopefully it is NOT some new and dangerous disease.