He: "The ChiComs says not to worry."
She: "Ping Null and Void"
Posted on 11/14/2019 9:52:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
Two people in China were diagnosed with a severe form of the plague, according to reports in Chinese media — raising alarms for citizens despite promises from health authorities that control measures are in place.
Local health officials confirmed the two cases of pneumonic plague on Tuesday, according to Xinhua News, China’s state-run news agency. The two patients, who authorities say received “proper treatment,” hail from China’s Inner Mongolia region. Additional information on the patients and their health status was not available Wednesday, and it’s not clear when the cases were identified. Officials told Xinhua that “relevant disease prevention and control measures have been taken.”
Caixin, a Chinese financial news outlet, reported that the patients were first treated at the Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, which replaced all of the chairs in its emergency room after the patients’ arrival. They have since been transferred to another hospital.
The pneumonic plague is the most serious form of the disease, according to the World Health Organization, and the only type that can spread from person to person through the inhalation of respiratory droplets. It is sometimes caused by untreated cases of the more common bubonic plague, and symptoms include fever, shortness of breath and rapidly developing pneumonia.
But the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday told Beijing residents not to worry about contracting the disease...
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World War Z
I cannot imagine many things scarier than a plauge like this in a crowded city where everyone uses mass transit.
All it would take is one of these people being transported to a Homeless camp in LA or San Francisco, and being allowed to spread. You would then have a sudden wave building up into an epidemic. Not likely. Right?
“The deadliest form of plague has infected two people in China...”
Get your plague shots San Fran!
China’s Inner Mongolia region is adjoining Beijing...
They took the patients to Beijing Hospital
Beijing is a city of 21.54 million in 2018. With a population in China at 1.42 billion, maybe they are looking for a different way to control population besides the one or two child policy.
How do you say ‘Bring out your dead’ in Chinese?
This same story was reported a few days ago by some kid at CNN a few days ago and since then I’ve been trying to figure out how this is news. Yersinia Pestis infection is not particularly uncommon, peven in areas of the US, and it’s easily treatable with antibiotics. People still get plague, some still die from it because they don’t seek treatment, and the pneumonic form is much more related to their lack of being seen by a medical professional than some looming epidemic.
Various people familiar with plague-like diseases have openly said that it’s only a matter of time before something starts up in either SF or LA. The one scenario floated around would suggest that local doctors would try to warn the mayor or city council of the city of an outbreak, and be told to shut up...it’s only affecting the homeless....then a week later, you’d end up with a non-homeless teenager dying from the disease, and this getting out into the public.
What bothers me about this scenario is that you’d suddenly have 20,000 homeless folks suddenly pack up and be moving out of LA or SF....passing whatever it was into a dozen other regions in California, and then it’d just spread out to the east coast. You could see 100,000 dying off each month before control was established.
As you said, so long as it was mostly restricted to the homeless, the general public may not really care or pay attention. But it won’t stay that way for very long.
The chairs or the patients were transferred?? Either way, sounds like more people were exposed and the virus just found a new environment. The guy was sick for 10 days prior so who all was he and his sick wife around in those 10 days and where did he get it?
The predecessor: Island of Terror
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/
Your map is hard to read as they have the label in the top left, but Inner Mongolia is the yellow portion of the map, close to Beijing.
Perhaps this one is easier to see
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