Media Reports on the Chinese HIV-like Virus (Yinzibing)
Here are links to various media reports on the new HIV-like virus. For articles in Chinese, the Google Chrome browser is great for instantly translating to English (just right click on the webpage background and select "Translate to English").
Encyclopaedia Articles on Yinzibing
Websites About Yinzibing
Forum Threads and Blogs by Yinzibing Patients
Threads on the Phoenix Rising ME/CFS forum about the Chinese HIV-like virus:
Archive Versions of Deleted Websites About Yinzibing
Several large Chinese forums and Chinese websites about yinzibing have now been deleted, but if you click on their links below, it takes you to an archived version of the website:
Searching for Information in English
In English, this pathogen and its disease are referred to as yinzibing, the yinzi disease, the Chinese HIV-like virus or China's AIDS-like disease. Search the Internet using these terms here: Google Search for Info on Yinzibing.
Searching for Information from China
In simplified Chinese, yinzibing translates to 阴滋病. This is the most common Chinese term for the HIV-like virus, so is the best phrase to use if searching in the Chinese language.
In traditional Chinese, yinzibing translates to 陰滋病. Note that traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, whereas simplified Chinese is used throughout mainland China and Singapore. So if searching for info from Hong Kong or Taiwan, use the traditional Chinese translation.
In simplified Chinese, Yinzibing has also been named: 未知病毒 = unknown virus, 疑似艾滋病 = HIV-like disease, 阴性感染者 = tested negative yet have symptoms, 阴性艾滋病 = negative AIDS, and 没有HIV的艾滋 = negative HIV.
Here are links to various media reports on the new HIV-like virus. For articles in Chinese, the Google Chrome browser is great for instantly translating to English (just right click on the webpage background and select "Translate to English").
- Yinzi Has Entered China's IT Circle. May 2020 in Chinese. This article talks about information technology professionals being infected with yinzibing, and spreading the virus to other IT workers during business meetings.
- The Disease is a Massacre Made by the Communist Party of China. Jan 2019 in Chinese. This article by New Tang Dynasty Television in New York blames the Chinese Communist Party for the lack of progress in tackling yinzibing.
- Chinese Health and Family Planning Commission Tried to Conceal Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases. Apr 2016 in Chinese. This article details the symptoms of yinzibing, looks at its history since this virus first emerged in 2003, and looks at how the existence of this virus has been covered up in China.
- Chinese Mainland Unknown Infectious Disease. Mar 2015 in Chinese. A good overview of the yinzibing, its history, and details of its symptoms.
- A Mysterious Disease. Jun 2011 in Chinese. Detailed article explaining that in China since 2004, people with AIDS-like symptoms and testing negative for HIV are trying to find answers. Their virus it was reported could be spread through saliva and blood.
- Expert: AIDS-Like Disease Is Not Just Phobia. May 2011 in English. Chinese researcher Zhong Nanshan says the so-called "negative AIDS" disease is real, not a phobia.
- Yinzi disease is stronger than AIDS. Apr 2011 in Chinese. Details the story of one yinzibing patient whose first symptoms of a cold and fever appeared the next day after visiting a prostitute. Then 3 months later he experienced an episode of meningitis.
- The Yinzibing Disease Reaches Hong Kong. Apr 2011 in Chinese. Article on how the HIV-like pathogen continues to spread, and has arrived in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
- New AIDS-Like Disease Appears in China. Mar 2011 in English. The Chinese government dismisses the HIV-like disease as a psychologically caused condition, so a group of patients infected with virus are deliberately donating blood in cities across China, in an attempt to increase the number of infected people.
- Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China. Mar 2011 in English. The yinzibing disease seems to be highly contagious and can spread by contact via any bodily fluid — through kissing, shared utensils, sweat, and even protected sex.
- BBC News - China's Mystery HIV-Like Disease May Be All In The Mind. Feb 2010 in English. This BBC news article incorrectly suggests that the severe mental and physical symptoms of this disease may be "all in the mind".
- AIDS Fear Afflicts Thousands Across China - People's Daily Online. Oct 2009 in English. This newspaper article explains how patients infected with this HIV-like pathogen are often being ignored by the medical profession, and are simply told that the symptoms are "all in your mind".
- "Negative infected persons" living in the shadow of AIDS. Oct 2009 in Chinese. Long article which among other things looks at the low CD4 immune cells found in some yinzibing patients.
Encyclopaedia Articles on Yinzibing
- Negative AIDS. In Chinese. Baidu Encyclopaedia detailed article about yinzibing.
- Yinzi Disease. In Chinese. Baidu Encyclopaedia article on yinzibing.
- Yinzibing — English Wikipedia article.
- 陰滋病 — Chinese Wikipedia article about yinzibing.
Websites About Yinzibing
- The Chronic Sore Throat / Mood Virus. In English. Details a virus found in the USA and Europe which may be the same virus as yinzibing. Blood tests conducted by the website author indicate the virus he caught is Coxsackie B4 virus. Three other people on this site with the same symptoms were positive for CVB4, when tested by the highly sensitive coxsackievirus B antibody neutralisation test provided by ARUP Lab in the USA. The author states that only antibody tests using neutralisation are sensitive enough to detect this chronic infection. So a nasty new strain of CVB4 might be the identity of the Chinese HIV-like virus. The website also provides interesting treatmentsfor the symptoms, including the anxiety symptoms.
- A New Contagious Unknown Pathogen. In English. These people are funding and conducting a professional next generation sequencing study to try to characterise yinzibing.
- Infectious Multisystemic Degenerative Syndrome (IMDS). In English. Run by the people conducting the next generation sequencing study.
- IMDS Discord Server. In English. Join this Discord server to contact the people organising the next generation sequencing study.
Forum Threads and Blogs by Yinzibing Patients
Threads on the Phoenix Rising ME/CFS forum about the Chinese HIV-like virus:
- Is it a New Disease or is it CFS?. In English.
- Emergency Report from China. In English.
- Does it Look Like CFS To You Guys. In English.
- Unknown-STD-id.boards.net. In English.
- Reddit: UnknownDisease. In English.
- tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=未知病毒. In Chinese.
- People Infected With Strange Diseases 2019. In Chinese.
Archive Versions of Deleted Websites About Yinzibing
Several large Chinese forums and Chinese websites about yinzibing have now been deleted, but if you click on their links below, it takes you to an archived version of the website:
- http://sites.google.com/site/nothiv. In Chinese. This Non-HIV/AIDS site is one of the oldest about yinzibing. It claims that earliest known case of yinzibing occurred in an American man in about 1985, who was infected by a woman whose husband had a background of working in Africa.
- http://www.southchinaiov.org/southbbs. In Chinese. Large online forum where infected patients chat.
- http://www.life-voice.info. In Chinese. An information centre about yinzibing, containing an online forum where infected patients chat.
- http://blog.sina.com.cn/searchthefact. In Chinese. A blog of an infected patient. Lists yinzibing symptoms.
- http://blog.sina.com.cn/fthisfthat. In Chinese. A blog of an infected patient.
Searching for Information in English
In English, this pathogen and its disease are referred to as yinzibing, the yinzi disease, the Chinese HIV-like virus or China's AIDS-like disease. Search the Internet using these terms here: Google Search for Info on Yinzibing.
Searching for Information from China
In simplified Chinese, yinzibing translates to 阴滋病. This is the most common Chinese term for the HIV-like virus, so is the best phrase to use if searching in the Chinese language.
In traditional Chinese, yinzibing translates to 陰滋病. Note that traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, whereas simplified Chinese is used throughout mainland China and Singapore. So if searching for info from Hong Kong or Taiwan, use the traditional Chinese translation.
In simplified Chinese, Yinzibing has also been named: 未知病毒 = unknown virus, 疑似艾滋病 = HIV-like disease, 阴性感染者 = tested negative yet have symptoms, 阴性艾滋病 = negative AIDS, and 没有HIV的艾滋 = negative HIV.