Posted on 01/29/2018 5:38:47 PM PST by blam
Super flu outbreaks are ravaging the Korean Peninsula less than two weeks before the Winter Olympics — leaving North Korea scrambling to treat more than 81,000 people infected with swine flu as the South kills off nearly 1 million chickens to contain the bird flu on its side of the border.
Nearly 127,000 North Koreans were reported to have flu-like illness between Dec. 1 and Jan. 16, with 81,640 cases testing positive for Influenza A/H1N1, also commonly known as swine flu, the World Health Organization said in a report released Friday.
Three children and one adult have died from the flu, the health organization said.
Health officials said the bitter cold that began in December caused an “upsurge” in the flu cases — and it doesn’t seem like it is slowing down in the near future.
“The outbreak of influenza has been wide-spread in the country for more than a period of one month hence deployment of seasonal influenza vaccines to prevent the outbreak has a very limited role,” the WHO said.
More than half of the flu cases are people who are older than 17. North Korea requested flu vaccine support for people who are high risk in contracting the disease, according to Yonhap News Agency. The WHO also supplied the Hermit Kingdom with 5,000 tablets to help contain the outbreak.
Meanwhile, South Korea is also scrambling to contain the bird flu outbreak with less than two weeks until the Opening Ceremony at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The South Korean government ordered about 764,000 chickens from farms near Seoul killed to prevent avian influenza H5N6 from spreading to people, the South’s Korea JongAng Daily reported, citing a government press release.
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127,000 cases with 3 deaths doesn’t seem all that bad for a country that size
South Korea has around 50 million people. If you assume that at any given time you have .1 percent of the population being ill enough to require some medical intervention it would be around 50,000 people. So this seems to be much ado about nothing.
How many North Koreans will die ? South Korea has great medical. North Korea, probably not so much unless you are related to the little fat kid.
I thought something similar.
Who wants to discourage travel to the Olympics?
What? There’s another stupid Olympic Games thing coming up again? It’s getting as bad as Star Wars movies in the frequency of this crap.
Scary thought. These games could be a real germ incubator.
Why would you want to go to the Olympics or watch them ... they’re all doing some sort of PEDs and after the games they will take away the medals and award them to someone else who didn’t win but had better cover.
It’s North Korea, something doesn’t add up there, the common cold would probably have 5% mortality among the serfs there.
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