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Four ‘generations’ of spread seen with virus in China, alarming experts
STAT News ^
| JANUARY 23, 2020
| HELEN BRANSWELL
Posted on 01/23/2020 3:30:44 PM PST by PA Engineer
Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections.
The World Health Organization reported Thursday that there have been at least four generations of spread of the new virus, provisionally called 2019-nCoV, meaning a person who contracted the virus from a non-human source presumably an animal has infected a person, who infected another person, who then infected another person.
Its not clear from a WHO statement whether transmission petered out after that point, or whether further generations of cases from those chains are still to come.
The WHO said the current estimate of the reproductive rate of the virus the number of people, on average, that each infected person infects is between 1.4 and 2.5. To stop an outbreak, the reproduction number has to be brought below one.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; china; coronavirus; disease
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FYI. "That gives me no comfort at all that anything thats happening right now is going to bring this under control any time soon, Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesotas Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said of the data the WHO released."
To: PA Engineer
It could turn into a global pandemic and no ones prepared for one.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:32:37 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: PA Engineer
What do you want to bet that those generations happened in a LAB conveniently located in the city of origin.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:33:38 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Revel
It was a zoonosis that spread from an animal to a human. It happens.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:35:27 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: PA Engineer
2 week incubation period ... four generations ... been around two months ?
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:38:27 PM PST
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Most of these are species specific. The bad ones are those that can spread to a new host.
This is what occurred here.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:41:18 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: PA Engineer
Petered out .
Now that is a real scientific term.
Gives me a warm feeling that WHO has a handle on the problem
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:42:30 PM PST
by
eartick
(Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
To: eartick
Nobody may be able to stop it if the virus turns virulent.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:44:20 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: eartick
This is all while stupid Democrats have us focused on a nonevent that will kill none of us.
Go figure.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:48:28 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: 11th_VA
2 week incubation period ... four generations ... been around two months ?
I have wondered the same.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:50:58 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: goldstategop
To: PA Engineer
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:51:25 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: goldstategop
Looks like it could sweep across China like wildfire.
Isn’t there at least one case here in the USA, in Washington State?
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:52:16 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Facts is Facts)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:53:14 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Facts is Facts)
To: PA Engineer
Impeachment trail isn’t going well for world domination, so Soros decided to unleash a backup strategy.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:53:14 PM PST
by
griffin
To: BenLurkin
"Contagion."
Caught it recently on Cinemax. The last scenes are haunting and predictive of what's happening now.
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:53:30 PM PST
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
To: griffin
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:53:51 PM PST
by
griffin
To: Publius
Let’s take it day by day before going all Armageddon about it :)
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:58:45 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: Publius
Like when obama was building a secret army.
Then secret interment camps.
Or SARS was gonna kill us all.
Or Ebola..
It’s a little early to go into end of days mode :)
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posted on
01/23/2020 3:59:54 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: PA Engineer
That package that just to my house from China, I just popped a bunch of those packing bubbles. I hope nobody sneezed while they’re filling those up over there.
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posted on
01/23/2020 4:00:36 PM PST
by
griffin
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