ISBA Founder’s Son Is Casualty of Contaminated Milk In China
Closer To Home: Melamine Milk Victim
On Friday, September 25, physicians in China confirmed that Jie Naef, the 2 year old son of Barry Naef and his wife Yanhua was another victim of China’s wide spread Melamine Milk scandal. The head of the World Health Organization said yesterday this was the largest global health safety event in recent years.
For months they knew something was seriously wrong but China physicians passed it off as “common for Children”. Barry said to us, “maybe in China, but this is not normal in the rest of the world”.
Having learned of the Melamine and formaldehyde in China’s finest milk 10 days ago, Barry and his wife could see all the symptoms in retrospect.
Jie is a true fan of shipping containers and gets excited when he visits the ports and factories with his father. Barry has commented many times that when Jie sees an ISBU plan or design on the PC he gets very excited and says, “my home”? Jie has actually been in several ISBU shipping container homes since he was 1 1/2 years old as he traveled with Barry. “…they are in his blood” says his dad.
As you may know, Barry returned to the ISBU Association as Director again on September 8, and began to hear rumors of the contaminated milk on the news about 7 days later. It’s taken this long to get Jie into a hospital for diagnosis. The emergency waiting lists in China were running into mid-November and Barry and his wife were frantic. Finally they received the finest personal assistance from the ACS Consul General, Kathryn Gilner at the U.S. Embassy in Guangzhou China who located a very credible clinic to see them immediately.
We will all be jumping in to assist even more this week to get projects caught up that Barry has been supervising and editing. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Naef’s and all the other millions of innocent victims in China. They will continue the next week seeking information on any treatments that are available.
You can read more of the details at the Jie’s World website which was ironically started a year ago by Barry and his family due to their extreme concerns of the food products being produced in China and exported to the United States.
Our sincere best.
- ISBA Staff & Members
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