Posted on 01/23/2020 3:30:44 PM PST by PA Engineer
Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections.
The World Health Organization reported Thursday that there have been at least four generations of spread of the new virus, provisionally called 2019-nCoV, meaning a person who contracted the virus from a non-human source — presumably an animal — has infected a person, who infected another person, who then infected another person.
It’s not clear from a WHO statement whether transmission petered out after that point, or whether further generations of cases from those chains are still to come.
The WHO said the current estimate of the reproductive rate of the virus — the number of people, on average, that each infected person infects — is between 1.4 and 2.5. To stop an outbreak, the reproduction number has to be brought below one.
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Scare tactic. Ignore it
Yes, his report tells us more than most news articles.
Yes I believe so.
The WHO refuses to call it a Global Emergency even though it is in several countries and growing.
The scene with the canister hollowing up is from the movie “Outbreak” with Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo.
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