Posted on 02/10/2020 10:23:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
World Health Organization officials are concerned about new coronavirus cases confirmed in France and the U.K. that were transmitted without any travel history to China.
Five British citizens contracted the virus in the French Alpine town of Contamines-Montjoie, health authorities said Sunday. On Monday, the U.K. said it confirmed new cases linked to a British man who went a conference in Singapore.
“The detection of this small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire, but for now it’s only a spark,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Monday at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva.
“Our objective remains containment,” he said. “We call on all countries to use the window of opportunity we have to prevent a bigger fire.”
World health officials said the respiratory disease, which has sickened more than 40,000 people worldwide and killed at least 910, mostly in China, is capable of spreading through human-to-human contact, droplets carried through sneezing and coughing, and germs left on inanimate objects. Symptoms can include a sore throat, runny nose, fever or pneumonia and can progress to multiple organ failure or death in some severe cases, they said.
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That is why they get paid the big bucks.
What I want to know is this now something we will have to live with like the common cold or influenza? Also, where are the recovered patients? You would think one of them would have been interviewed in the interest of public knowledge seeing as there are so many venues now in which to do so.
Man, these WHO guys are brilliant. Nothing a 4th grader couldn’t figure out.
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