Posted on 03/25/2020 7:55:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
March 25 (UPI) -- A man in China has died after testing positive for the hantavirus, according to Chinese state media.
Global Times reported the patient, a migrant worker from southwestern Yunnan Province, died while traveling on a chartered bus to Shandong Province for work on Monday.
There is more than one strain of hantavirus, some more harmful than others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is no approved cure or vaccine against hantaviruses in the United States. An inoculation may be available in China.
The group of diseases is spread primarily among rodents, and from rodents to humans. Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces. The fatality rate is 36 percent.
Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper China Press reported Wednesday the patient with the surname Tian was traveling on a bus with 30 migrant workers. It is unclear whether they were also infected. When Tian developed a fever, emergency staff may have suspected a case of the novel coronavirus, according to the report.
Southern Metropolis Daily, a Chinese newspaper published in the city of Guangzhou, said Tian's home province of Yunnan has reported a total of 1,231 hantavirus cases from 2015 to 2019. China developed a vaccine against the virus 20 years ago, which may have lowered fatalities, according to reports.
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“...if you have to swallow the persons spit to get it...”
Just don’t kiss a mouse or drimk it’s urine.
For now. Until some scientist gene edits it to include aspects of the common cold. Recominant viruses are and will continue to be the new plagues.
Lol
(cue sCaRy mUsIc: dum-dum-DUMMMMMM! )
Oh noes! Run in fear! Lock down everything! Close churches (heh, heh, not abortion clinics)!!!! Eleventy11!!!!
This could be a problem in California where the growth of the homeless population has led to an expansion of the rat population. The California tree rat is the same species that carried the bubonic plague in Europe during the Middle Ages.
If they are not regularly pruned, the fronds of Washington and Mexican fan palms, found all over Southern California, will die but remain hanging from the trunk and accumulate in layers. Rats love to inhabit these, as they did the thatched roofs of medieval European houses.
The fatality rate is 37%. It will spread exponentially. The hospitals will be overloaded. We only have a few weeks to stop it. Everyone can be saved if we shit down everything for a few months and allow the government to run our lives.
We do not know how this disease will progress so we need to enforce the precautionary principle because even if it saves one life it will be worth it.
Your inadvertent misspelling was hilarious.
Oh no... still waiting for the end of the world and the concurrent arrival of zombies.
The dangers of using your cell phone to post while your are on conference call. Thanks for laughing!
Teach it to bring squirrels only.
Is China trying to get back in the good graces of the global community by giving us enough warning for impending calamity?
Lovely!
China - breeding, creating and spreading deadly diseases to the rest of the world for centuries.
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