Posted on 01/24/2020 12:33:06 PM PST by 11th_VA
PARIS (AP) — France on Friday announced two confirmed cases of the deadly new virus from China, the first reported in Europe, and the country’s health minister said new cases were likely to follow.
Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said both of the sickened people had traveled to China. They were hospitalized, in isolation, one in Paris, the other in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
In part because of Europe’s open borders, the minister said she expects more cases.
“We see how difficult it is in today’s world to close the frontiers. In reality, it’s not possible,” she said
“We have two cases,” she added. “We will probably have other cases.”
Buzyn said speed in diagnosing new cases will be essential in slowing the spread of the virus. She said she believes that one reason why France is the first European country to have confirmed cases is that it has developed a test allowing medics to rapidly diagnose the sickened.
“You have to treat an epidemic as you would a fire, that’s to say find the source very quickly,” she said.
One of people sickened, a 48-year-old man, passed through Wuhan, the epicenter in China for the virus, before traveling to France on Wednesday, the minister said. That person is hospitalized in Bordeaux.
The other person is hospitalized in a large city hospital in Paris. The minister said that person also traveled to China but that she had little other information about the case. It was confirmed shortly before she spoke at a news conference.
The Bordeaux patient was in contact with about 10 people before he was taken into care, the minister said. French authorities are seeking to contact them.
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That’s the infected woman who fled wusan for paris by using meds to cover her symptoms and headed straight for a 5 star restaurant from where she bragged to the wold of her escape and good meal.
So far it’s only spreading to developed nations for the most part.
Wouldn’t it be a kicker everyone in the world is wiped out except Africa and 3rd world countries?
Will take 25,000 years for man to go to the moon once again lol
Basically, with Airline Travel the way it is in modern society, there is literally NOTHING they can do to prevent a pandemic, it’s already underway, I’m not worried, live or die, that’s all I can do ...
Could this be the one?
“Basically, with Airline Travel the way it is in modern society, there is literally NOTHING they can do to prevent a pandemic, it’s already underway, I’m not worried, live or die, that’s all I can do …”
We live in on a small farm in a rural Appalachian town of 400 people and my closest neighbor is 3/4 mile away.
We have a well and a one acre pond and we have enough food to last 6 months and we can plant this spring.
Not too worried.
This could be the 'Black Swan' ... yes the one
probably because only developed nations test for it and monitor disease inside their borders
It’s everywhere now.
All of us will eventually be exposed to it.
“it’s already underway”
Yes it is.
And it will take its course no matter what man does.
Exactly
The Spanish Flu circulated for about 2 years...
That story is incredible. I hope she was joking hoping to get attention.
Doubt it ... some Mainland Chinese are incredibly dumb about health concerns.
Doubt it ... some Mainland Chinese are incredibly dumb about health concerns.
Open those borders!! We’rea nation of immigrants. Who are we to deny entrance to someone just because they’re poor, diseased, physically or mentally disabled, or unemployable? Rich countries have no right to control their own immigration. The only immigration policy is open borders!
/sarc
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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