Hong Kong Steps Up Response To Mystery Disease From China

Breitbart ^ | 1-5-2020

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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities activated a newly created “serious response” level as fears spread about a mysterious infectious disease that may have been brought back by visitors to a mainland Chinese city.

Eight possible cases have been reported of a viral pneumonia that has also infected at least 44 people in Wuhan, an inland city west of Shanghai, about 900 kilometers (570 miles) north of Hong Kong.

The outbreak, which emerged last month, has revived memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic that started in southern China and killed more than 700 people in the mainland, Hong Kong and elsewhere.

The serious response level indicates a moderate impact on Hong Kong’s population of 7.5 million people. It is the second highest in a three-tier system that is part of a new government plan launched Saturday to respond to infectious diseases of unknown cause.

The city’s health department added an additional thermal imaging system at Hong Kong’s airport on Friday to check the body temperature of arriving passengers. More staff have been assigned for temperature checks at the West Kowloon high-speed rail station that connects Hong Kong to the mainland.

City leader Carrie Lam, on a visit to the train station Friday to review the health surveillance measures, urged any travelers who develop respiratory symptoms to wear surgical masks, seek medical attention and let doctors know where they have been. The Wuhan health commission said 11 of the 44 people diagnosed with the pneumonia were in critical condition as of Friday. All were being treated in isolation and 121 others who had been in close contact with them were under observation.

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It's Always Something (IAS)

Mysterious Illness Infecting Dozens In China Not SARS: Authorities

What Is Viral Pneumonia?

[Darksheare]

Bioweapon

[tired&retired]

Self inflicted Bioweapon

[EinNYC]

Bioweapon

That was my first thought, too. A nasty underhanded way for the mainland Chinese scum to subdue people who actually show some resistance to just being rolled into the abominable Chinese Borg organism.

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Bring Out Your Dead

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.

[BenLurkin]

Kind of looks that way a littlenbit, doesnt it.

A way to throttle the population.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease Ping - viral pneumonia UPDATE - Wuhan, China

Eight possible cases have been reported of a viral pneumonia (Emphasis mine)
that has also infected at least 44 people in Wuhan, an inland city west of Shanghai,
about 900 kilometers (570 miles) north of Hong Kong.

"The Wuhan health commission said 11 of the 44 people diagnosed with the pneumonia
were in critical condition as of Friday.
All were being treated in isolation and 121 others who had been in close contact with them
were under observation.

[trisham]

Thanks, TIK.

[webheart]

Any country that will kill people on the pretext of religion in order to harvest their organs would not think twice about using biological weapons.

[samtheman]

If anybody has the power to quarantine affected groups it’s the Chinese government.

[bgill]

If it comes from China, look at the chickens.

If it comes from Africa, look at the monkeys.

If it comes from the US, look at the rats and used needles.

[Fai Mao]

“A nasty underhanded way for the mainland Chinese scum to subdue people who actually show some resistance to just being rolled into the abominable Chinese Borg organism.”

Except it is in Wuhan as well. We have relatives there. There are 100’s of cases of this, maybe 1000’s the government is just keeping it quiet to avoid a panic. But hospital workers know it’s there and are really concerned.

This is just bad hygiene and the fact that (according to my Chinese wife) “The Chinese will eat anything with legs except the table, anything in the air except an airplane and anything in the sea except a submarine” Often they ferment (rot) the item before eating it and the more disgusting the sell the better they like it.

Poor cooking practices, really filthy conditions and a lack of concern for anything approaching sanitation can explain this.

I think it was Dwight Eisenhower who said: “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity”

A flu bug mutated.

It might be a good time to re-read the old Sci-Fi book: The Earth Abides”

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Thanks for the close contact input.

[LadyDoc]

hmm... reminds me of when we had an outbreak of Hanta virus on the Navajo reservation, caused by dust from rat droppings.

or like MERS, which is caught from camels in the Middle East, but also spread to a few nurses from the Philippines (and one came back here with it) but was only infectious to very close contact (e.g. suctioning).

The only “ good” news about this outbreak in China is that so far it is not spreading person to person, meaning a large spread like in SARS is unlikely.

of course, with SARS, the Chinese lied about that outbreak, and covered it up. But here the World Health Organization is involved, so coverup of what's going on would be limited.

[GOPJ]

Bioweapon

Remember this?

[GOPJ]

Remember this one?

[GOPJ]

If it comes from China, look at the chickens. If it comes from Africa, look at the monkeys. If it comes from the US, look at the rats and used needles.

Did you mean 'democrats' or real rats?

[Darksheare]

Yup.

[GOPJ]

You were right... VERY early.

[Darksheare]

Wish I hadn’t been.