Posted on 01/17/2020 12:03:15 PM PST by bgill
More than 40 cases of the newly identified coronavirus have been confirmed in Asia, including two deaths — at least one involving a previous medical condition. Officials have said it probably spread from animals to people but haven’t been able to rule out the possibility that it spreads from person to person...
At least a half-dozen countries in Asia have started screening incoming airline passengers from central China. The list includes Thailand and Japan, which both have reported cases of the disease in people who had come from Wuhan. Travel is unusually heavy right now as people take trips to and from China to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
The CDC said the airport screenings are part of an effort to better detect and prevent the virus from the same family of bugs that caused an international outbreaks of SARS and MERS that began in 2002 and 2012.
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“Another Lab-Created Chinese virus.”
More importantly, screen their broads for buns in the oven.
Headlines:
US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness
LouAvul wrote:
More importantly, screen their broads for buns in the oven.
A little late after the holidays and our New Year.
Glad to hear they’re doing this. That said, of course, one Chinese traveler or even non-Chinese traveler on a plane from anywhere could be carrying it....however, so far it has only been found in Japan, in a Chinese national resident in Japan (who recovered). So just checking travelers from China is a good start.
Better to do this than close the barn door after the epidemic is out.
The big question is why with just a handful of deaths that this is more important than screening for such diseases like ebola that has infected many more?
Should screen passengers from San Francisco.
The open for the BBC’s 1975 Survivors comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAyjkaFYnzE&list=PLQxqdjpVmR2RtjinOUhf1gnIjpdLiOgSO
I looked on Netflix but they don't have it on DVD or streaming, and Prime doesn't have it either.
...health officials expect to see more 2019-nCoV cases pop up around the world as more people look for it. She added that the CDC and other global health groups are in a waiting mode, as Chinese authorities investigate the outbreak and details trickle out. “We don’t have the level of detail to confidently say that this virus is behaving in the way that we would expect,” she said. For example, the incubation period for 2019-nCoV is currently thought to range anywhere from 2 to 14 days...
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