He: "Same as happened with SARS."
Her: "Ping Null and Void."
Posted on 01/01/2020 10:43:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
The World Health Organisation said it is in ongoing contact with authorities in China over an unidentified outbreak of viral pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan, amid concern it may have been transmitted from animals.
Wuhan health authorities on Tuesday said 27 people – most of them stallholders at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market – had been treated in hospital, with seven said to be in serious condition. Pathology tests were under way to try and identify the virus, officials said. Hong Kong medical authorities were also on alert.
Wuhan authorities ordered the closure of the market on Wednesday. Local media said the market sold other animals, including birds, raising concern after the 2002-03 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in China killed several hundred people and is thought to have jumped from animals to humans.
Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said that although the Wuhan case had similarities to the 1997 outbreak of bird flu and the Sars epidemic, there was no need for people to panic though they should remain alert.
(Excerpt) Read more at scmp.com ...
Civets again?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
vaccines,,,
Perhaps.
IIRC, ferrets can get human influenza (or was that the common cold?)...
Arguably, since many cases of viral pneumonia start with influenza, one could assert that the flu vaccination provides some protection from viral pneumonia.
Thanks for the comment. I thought we did have a vaccine for viral pneumonia.
Interesting that we don't, eh?
“We have zero vaccinations for viral pneumonia.”
I got vaccinated for it. It’s really bad for the old folks (that would be me).
Bring Out Your Dads!
other than the flu vaccine....
We have zero vaccinations for viral pneumonia besides the Flu Shot on the market now. It may not cover this virus.
This is a correction of an earlier post of mine minus some coffee and input from Mom Md.
Bam! Knew it from the headline. It's always birds or pigs over there. It's always bush meat in Africa. It's always illegals and immigrants in the US.
enjoy the coffee and happy new year!
Thanks and thanks for the correction.
One of my husband’s military friends (USAMRIID) says the Chinese are not sharing data on this outbreak like they have with past outbreaks.
While they have quarantined the area and the affected people it should be noted that they have done the same thing in the past when they are actually ‘quarantining’ Muslims, Falun Gong, Christians, Catholics, and other protesters.
There’s also a chance that this isn’t pneumonia but instead a further spread of the November 2019 pneumonic plague outbreak:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/two-people-diagnosed-with-pneumonic-plague-in-china
Interesting
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