Coronavirus Global Health Emergency, 2019-nCoV

[dotr]

China virus spread is accelerating, Xi warns
Where has it spread?
''There are now nearly 1,300 confirmed cases all across China, though most concentrated in those closest to Hubei.

But it has also spread abroad - in isolated cases affecting small numbers of patients.

On Saturday, Australia confirmed its first four cases - first in Melbourne, and then three more in Sydney.

It has also spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France. The UK is investigating a number of suspected cases, with officials trying to trace around 2,000 people who have recently flown to the UK from Hubei province.''

''China's neighbours in the Asia region are on high alert, however, with cases reported in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea and Nepal.

There are also cases in the United States.''

 

[Bravo]

So frightening when these outbreaks occur. Our Son and his Wife travelled to Japan last April (she is part Japanese) I'm glad it was then as she is just now entering her 2nd Trimester. Yes we are going to be 1st time Grands!!! "The plan after Japan" LOL

 

[Bravo]

Scary part is with all folks travelling some could be infected but not symptomatic. Yet.

 

[Amonet]

Scary part is with all folks travelling some could be infected but not symptomatic. Yet.

If Hubei province has stopped all travel out of the cities by car, bus, train, and plane, then that should reduce the number of cases coming in by plane to other countries.

And I think these are very brave decisions being taken by Chinese authorities.

 

[Amonet]

The BBC reports that so far all suspected cases in the UK have tested negative for the new coronavirus.

They also give this advice from Public Health England to anyone who's recently returned from China.

Public Health England is advising anyone who has been to Wuhan within the past 14 days and has developed respiratory symptoms to phone NHS 111.

Those symptoms include a cough, a sneeze, shortness of breath, or a fever.

People who are concerned should phone ahead before going to any medical facility and mention their recent travel to the city.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-512497

 

[Barbieshell]

The BBC reports that so far all suspected cases in the UK have tested negative for the new coronavirus.

They also give this advice from Public Health England to anyone who's recently returned from China.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-512497

Good, best to be proactive, ready, cautiously prepared etc.

 

[Hatfield]

China virus spread is accelerating, Xi warns
Where has it spread?
''There are now nearly 1,300 confirmed cases all across China, though most concentrated in those closest to Hubei.

But it has also spread abroad - in isolated cases affecting small numbers of patients.

On Saturday, Australia confirmed its first four cases - first in Melbourne, and then three more in Sydney.

It has also spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France. The UK is investigating a number of suspected cases, with officials trying to trace around 2,000 people who have recently flown to the UK from Hubei province.''

''China's neighbours in the Asia region are on high alert, however, with cases reported in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea and Nepal.

There are also cases in the United States.''

Wow. Spending money to build emergency hospitals in about 15 days or so means they are taking things seriously.

"A second emergency hospital is to be built there within weeks to handle 1,300 new patients, and will be finished in half a month, state newspaper the People's Daily said. It is the second such rapid construction project: work on another 1,000-bed hospital has already begun."

China virus spread is accelerating, Xi warns

 

[Taskforce88]

Is China lying? Experts question why authorities suddenly kicked into action weeks after first coronavirus case was reported amid claims the regime has used its superpower status to stop UN declaring an international emergency

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7928349/Did-China-use-status-major-superpower-pressure-World-Health-Organisation.html

 

[dotr]

Is China lying? Experts question why authorities suddenly kicked into action weeks after first coronavirus case was reported amid claims the regime has used its superpower status to stop UN declaring an international emergency

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7928349/Did-China-use-status-major-superpower-pressure-World-Health-Organisation.html

One might wonder who if anyone will profit (once developed) from anti-virus vaccines?
speculation, imo.

 

[gregjrichards]

One might wonder who if anyone will profit (once developed) from anti-virus vaccines?
speculation, imo.

I read that scientists in Australia are trying to develop a vaccine but it’s at least six months away. No doubt scientists all over the world will be trying to develop one.

It will be interesting to see what measures are taken to try and prevent the virus going forward.

 

[asyousay]

With the way the China is reacting you can bet that this is a billion times worse than what we know and way more than “41” are dead imo.

 

[Taskforce88]

With the way the China is reacting you can bet that this is a billion times worse than what we know and way more than “41” are dead imo.

You could probably add a couple of zeros to that number.

 

[dotr]

Why snakes probably aren’t spreading the new China virus
23 January 2020
''Why snakes probably aren’t spreading the new China virus
One genetic analysis suggests reptilian reservoir — but researchers doubt that the coronavirus could have originated in animals other than birds or mammals.''

''Many scientists suspect that an unknown animal carrying 2019-nCoV spread the virus to humans at a live seafood and wild animal market in Wuhan, where the first cases were documented in December.

“The intermediate host is the missing piece of the puzzle: how have all these people got infected?” says Robertson.

Hedgehogs, chickens and bats
A team led by Wei Ji, a microbiologist at Peking University Health Science Center School of Basic Medical Sciences in Beijing, looked for a sign that 2019-nCoV had adapted to any specific animal host.

Most amino acids are encoded by multiple codons — sequences of three DNA or RNA nucleotide triplets that encode amino acids. One way that viruses adapt is by encoding proteins using the same choice of codons as their host. Wei’s team compared the codons favoured by 2019-nCoV with those preferred by potential hosts including hedgehogs, pangolins, bats, chickens, humans and snakes.''

 

[dotr]

Dang!
Canada’s first ‘presumptive’ case of deadly coronavirus confirmed in Toronto
January 25, 2020 5:44 PM EST
''The Ontario government says Canada’s first “presumptive positive case” of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed.

The patient — a man in his 50s who travelled to China and became ill within a day, is being treated in at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital and samples have been sent to a Winnipeg lab for confirmation.''

''According to a new study in the Journal of Medical Virology, the disease likely lives and grows in snakes.

The many-banded krait and Chinese cobra snakes sold at the Wuhan market may be sources of the unusual virus.''

''So far there are 39 confirmed cases outside mainland China. The virus has hit Australia, France, Thailand, the U.S., Japan, South Korea and others.

And now Canada.''

 

[Taskforce88]

Another 300 cases and 11 deaths officially reported.

 

[LadyL]

Dang!
Canada’s first ‘presumptive’ case of deadly coronavirus confirmed in Toronto
January 25, 2020 5:44 PM EST
''The Ontario government says Canada’s first “presumptive positive case” of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed.

The patient — a man in his 50s who travelled to China and became ill within a day, is being treated in at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital and samples have been sent to a Winnipeg lab for confirmation.''

''According to a new study in the Journal of Medical Virology, the disease likely lives and grows in snakes.

The many-banded krait and Chinese cobra snakes sold at the Wuhan market may be sources of the unusual virus.''

''So far there are 39 confirmed cases outside mainland China. The virus has hit Australia, France, Thailand, the U.S., Japan, South Korea and others.

And now Canada.''

yep I was hoping it wouldn't come here

 

[Taskforce88]

I read a report earlier that they had ruled out links to a food market.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I read that scientists in Australia are trying to develop a vaccine but it’s at least six months away. No doubt scientists all over the world will be trying to develop one.

It will be interesting to see what measures are taken to try and prevent the virus going forward.

Although there is a killer virus vaccine that Health industries have to help prevent infection that many people do not get vaccinated for. It will be interesting to see if this Coronavirus has many different strains every year. Influenza kills up to 650,000 people every year.

Coronavirus vs. flu: Influenza deadlier than Wuhan, China, disease

Informative article here, but I can't seem to cut and paste any of the information within it to share here.

 

[dotr]

Although there is a killer virus vaccine that Health industries have to help prevent infection that many people do not get vaccinated for. It will be interesting to see if this Coronavirus has many different strains every year. Influenza kills up to 650,000 people every year.

Coronavirus vs. flu: Influenza deadlier than Wuhan, China, disease

Informative article here, but I can't seem to cut and paste any of the information within it to share here.

Thanks for the informative article! rbbm.
from link..
''If Americans aren’t afraid of the flu, perhaps that’s because they are inured to yearly warnings. For them, the flu is old news. Yet viruses named after foreign places – such as Ebola, Zika and Wuhan – inspire terror.

“Familiarity breeds indifference,” Schaffner said. “Because it’s new, it’s mysterious and comes from an exotic place, the coronavirus creates anxiety.”

Some doctors joke that the flu needs to be rebranded''.

''Because the Wuhan virus is new, humans have no antibodies against it. Doctors haven’t had time to develop treatments or vaccines.

The big question, so far unknown, is just how easily the virus is transmitted from an infected person to others.''

 

[gregjrichards]

Is Beijing suppressing the true scale of infections? Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected

Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected | Daily Mail Online