Posted on 01/31/2020 6:43:42 PM PST by 11th_VA
BANGKOK: Thailand has seen its first case of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus inside the country, a health official said on Friday (Jan 31), as it raised its total number of cases to 19, the second-highest after China.
The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control.
"(He) ...does not have the record of travelling to China, and it is likely that he was infected (by) a sick traveller from China," Tanarak said.
Authorities have conducted virus scans on 13 people, including three family members, who the taxi driver came into contact with. They said that initially none of them had tested positive for the virus.
"The overall risk of infection in Thailand is still low, but people should take precautions to protect themselves," Tanarak said.
Thailand's previous cases have all been either Chinese tourists or Thais who had visited China, where the virus originated.
The taxi driver is one of five other coronavirus cases confirmed in Thailand on Friday. The other four patients are Chinese nationals.
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Shared air in a small space.
Have fun tracking down all the people he came in contact with.
Can they even identify the sick passengers.
I wonder if he caught it from one of the other 18, or if he caught it from some other (currently) unknown infected person.
Wait until it hits India.
All public transport people in port cities should be tested on a regular basis.
First we had a Japanese tour bus driver.
Now a thailand taxi driver.
If you want to stop the spread, those are the really high risk jobs.
Here we go!
Pandora’s box is open. It’s only a matter of time.
India has one case now. It popped up yesterday before 11:00 EST. That’s 1 of the 153 cases outside of China as of this time. These make up 1.35% of the total number of officially documented cases. China has the other 98.65% of cases.
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Every flood starts with a single drop of water.
Fair enough, but so do normal rain showers.
Can anyone post the stick figure person GIF of them running in circles in a full panic meltdown?
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.
Katie bar the door.
Symptoms of coronavirus: Indian govt sets up 24X7 helpline number
A 24x7 helpline number?
SRSLY?
"This is 'Peggy'. Have you tried rebooting your lungs?"
Guaranteed they have at least 3 shedding.
Dont no worry call person
Your death will be very quick
Have a happy day or hour
Yeah, what could go wrong?
Have you posted about the “...similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag”?
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