KILLER BUG Coronavirus death toll DOUBLES to 17 as more than 470 cases of ‘mutating’ bug confirmed

www.thesun.co.uk ^ | 22 Jan 2020, 7:35Updated: 22 Jan 2020, 18:29 | Lizzie ParryTariq Tahir

[Cowboy Bob]

Just think of all the Chinese students coming to study in America...

[setter]

The major concern here is Mexico with their poor HC and sanitation and then with border jumpers watch out.

The US can handle any cases arriving via plane into the US with screening of passengers.

[al_c]

This time, FOR SURE, we’re all gonna die. Not like all those other times. :)

[Red Badger]

Yep! One foot on the proverbial banana peel!..............

[GulfMan]

Bart Simpson, we're all gonna die ...

I feel like I'm going to die Bart ...

[discostu]

No. Continuing to mutate is a good thing, illnesses generally mutate towards less fatal. It’s not actually in a bug’s interest to kill the host. It’s already got a very low fatality rate. And we have better medical techniques. There’s a reason none of these super bugs have panned out since we got a good handle on viral theory, and proper sanitation. Many scares, mostly pumped by the government, but in the end nothing actually that bad.

[MayflowerMadam]

Yeah; that was weird. Eight-and-a-half people died before this. LOL!

[Buckeye McFrog]

The problem with catching a Chinese virus is that
an hour later you want to catch it again.

[Texas Eagle]

Mutating bug? They should call it the Adamschiffvirus.

[mrsmith]

China just can’t get a break.
\It spent all that money on facial reco0gn9ition ... and now people are wearing masks!

Read they’ve quarantined Wuhan. Too late though, cases are being spread in other areas.

[Pelham]

Ebola isn’t easily transmitted which limits its potential as a mass killer.

Influenza and other respiratory viruses are highly contagious, which is why the 1918 Flu could kill so many.

1918 was a hybrid flu. Any swine flu or bird flu cross with a human flu is especially dangerous. They leverage your immune system against you and can kill via a cytokine storm.

Apparently these coronaviruses are similar to influenza. Respiratory so easily passed along.

[stars & stripes forever]

The major concern here is Mexico with their poor HC and sanitation and then with border jumpers watch out.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t understand how screening for high temperature helps - it can identify actively ill people, but can’t you be infected with something for a while before you develop symptoms?

[PGR88]

17 deaths among 500+ cases. That’s a mortality rate of 3+% in Wuhan, the epicenter of this disease (which is again associated with eating of wild animals)

China claimed that SARS had a mortality rate of 30-50%, when it finally petered-out in 2004.

The only sickness here seems to be the media coverage.

[Red Badger]

That would be an insult...................................................to the virus!..................

[EEGator]

[Revel]

This sounds like a virus that was created in a Lab. It brings some of those doomsday movies to life.

[PA Engineer]

[DuncanWaring]

Previously, one of the patients had taken the place of Schroedinger’s Cat, so he was counted as both dead and alive.

[SubMareener]

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701
It’s patented!!! Nothing to see here! Move along.