Girl killed herself due to being a hepatitis B virus carrier
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A freshman killed herself in her dorm in Tianjin Normal University on April 10, four months after testing positive as a hepatitis B virus carrier in a blood donation drive.
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Wu Xinyi, a freshman from Tianjin Normal University, committed suicide in her dorm on April 10, 2015. [Photo: The Beijing News] |
Wu Xinyi, 19, from Fujian Province, was found dead from charcoal poisoning in her solitary dormitory room into which she had moved 34 days earlier, the Beijing News newspaper reports.
Wu's mother was the first to feel something was wrong with her daughter. At about 4 p.m. of April 10, she called a college counselor to check whether her daughter was fine since she could not contact her by phone. Ten minutes later, the counselor phoned back to say Wu was in the library.
Wu's mother was still worried due to the girl's weird words on Wechat (a popular mobile phone chat software in China): "Mom is a strong woman. No matter what happens, be strong." and "Take care of yourself". She had an intuition that something bad was about to happen, so she booked the earliest train ticket to Tianjin. However, Wu made no further contact from 6 p.m. on April 10.
Wu did not attend her English class that morning, but she had texted her classmate Li Xiao during the day, inviting her to her dorm at 10 p.m. for a chat. At 11 p.m. that night, however, Li and the dorm manager found Wu lying on bed with her hands on her abdomen, cold and obviously dead.
In her suicide note, Wu said that she felt the life was too long and she could not see the end. "I cannot save myself. Let me go."
According to Wu's mother, her daughter was docile and well-behaved. She had a warm heart and a sense of humor; however, she could not express her thoughts well in front of outsiders.
Wu's ordinary and quiet campus life changed after her blood sample showed the hepatitis B virus during a blood donation campaign organized by the university last November. Later, Wu's roommates began to keep distance after the news of the infection spread. Wu's desk-mate in high school once encouraged her to better communicate with her classmates on this issue. But Wu told her that the classmates were still afraid even though they knew the fact of being a carrier was not that terrible.
Wu finished her first semester early without taking her final exams and returned to her hometown to rest.
Before the new semester, Wu went to hospital for a physical review and found her situation was improving. However, the school still asked Wu to bring a certificate from the hospital stating that a hepatitis B virus carrier would be able to keep up with normal studies.
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