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Mystery pneumonia outbreak in China sparks fear of deadly SARS virus
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Fucking coronaviruses, everybody wash your hands and avoid cough droplets
MERS was similar and flared in the Middle East around in 2012
I saw something a few weeks back about an unsubstantiated rumor that rival pig farmers were infecting competing farms with SARS to get a leg up on the competition, completely dismissed as it was the dumbest thing I've heard in a while but jeez SARS again?
The 1820's and 1920's both saw massive disease epidemics.
I mean I'm hoping the pattern doesn't repeat here but this doesn't bode well.
I mean I'm hoping the pattern doesn't repeat here but this doesn't bode well.
It's even more problematic when you consider the rise of anti vaxxers.
This will probably be mankind's downfall someday, some zoonotic infection that transfers to humans in a deeply populated city with tons of animals packed together in unsanitary conditions.
its like that Contagion movie. That was a scary af movie from how fast an unknown animal virus can spread quick.
Before anybody gets too excited:
I'd definitely take a wait and see approach on this before concluding that it is a human-transmissible virus. There may simply be a common exposure.
I'd definitely take a wait and see approach on this before concluding that it is a human-transmissible virus. There may simply be a common exposure.
I work in a GTA hospital and I still hear horror stories about the days of SARS when I was still in school. This is pretty alarming.
I went to the concert and got a horrible sunburn.
Already jumped to 200+ infected with a 3rd fatality, also spread to Beijing and Guangdong province https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...tbreak-widens-with-china-increasing-screening
If that was the flu there'd be more deaths than 3 out of 200+.
Nothing to worry about.
Yet ...... *spooky noises*
Nothing to worry about.
Yet ...... *spooky noises*
Contagion is an honest-to-god masterpiece in how it treats its epidemiology seriously. Even the eventual reveal of the pandemic's origins is based on a real case (albeit exaggerated for effect).
If you or anyone wants a great read on zoonotic disease check out David Quammen's Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. Quammen is a damned fine writer and researcher and that book is a great primer on this topic.
Not necessarily. Depending on the specific parameters of a strain, it could be highly contagious but not as severe, thus incurring fewer deaths.
Going to China for New Year, bad timing ! Girlfriend don't feel safe, we were supposed to travel with friends to Hangzhou, I think we'll have to persuade them to stay in Beijing this time... (they still want to travel despite one of them being pregnant)
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Yeah, that's what we managed to deal. Not that surprisingly they really started spreading the news these days, so there's a lot of people that still don't know about it. Hopefully they will do some more PSA to avoid what happened last time.
Unfortunately we still might have to go to the restaurant with the family on New Years Eve...
Well shit. Hopefully the crazy travel rush during the Chinese New Year doesn't see this spread to Taiwan.
Worse possible time. Chinese New Year means a lot of travelling. Shit, in Malaysia we have to deal with influenza too.
You know that's the place with the most and most recent outbreaks of the plague, right?
It's a meme/reference to the flash game where you had to infect the world with a disease (Pandemic II) - Madagascar would always close their port really quickly so it was hard to infect the whole world.
Have you seen a film called Contagion? Sounds vaguely similar to the synopsis.
Thanks for the explanation. Interesting they chose the plague country to do this
this is like where the internet is terrible for peoples psyche.We are talking about hundreds of people mostly in China. You are more likely to die by the flu. If the internet didn't exist you'd likely never know this virus existed.
Luckily so far for how many people have been infected not very many have died.
Lol my workplace at the time was like, "don't wear masks, it'll scare away customers."
Fucking Christ. Those was some tense times.
That's because Contagion was written by someone who had done pretty meticulous research into zoonotic disease. Which is nothing new. Influenza infects birds, pigs, humans, and other animals and can cross the species border under the right conditions. Cowpox is so similar to smallpox that we used to inoculate people by infecting them with cowpox which did two things - 1) not kill them, as cowpox isn't as severe for humans, and 2) would grant immunity to smallpox.
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