Nepal confirms first case of new coronavirus

Reuters ^ | January 24, 2020 | by Gopal Sharma

[Oldeconomybuyer]

KATHMANDU - A Nepali student home from China tested positive for the new coronavirus, an official in Kathmandu said on Friday, making it the first confirmed case in the Himalayan nation.

“One patient tested positive for coronavirus. He is a Nepali student studying in China,” Mahendra Shrestha, a Health Ministry spokesperson, told Reuters.

The student had come home on holiday from Wuhan in China, a ministry of health statement said. He is being kept under surveillance and those in close contact with him were being investigated.

The ministry said it was seeking health information from all passengers traveling from China into Nepal.

[Mariner]

Its everywhere now.
All of us will eventually be exposed to it.

[HangnJudge]

The cat is out of the bag
It can be slowed down, but...

[DownInFlames]

That’s right. I’m beginning to wonder is this has been engineered to take the population down 4 to 5 billion people. Wait til it hits India and Africa. BOOM!

[Red Badger]

I think NOT I’m goin’ to Katmandu,
That’s really really where I’m NOT going to
If I ever get out of here
That’s what I’m gonna do.......................

[Socon-Econ]

The disease does not seem to have claimed a large number of lives, but people are talking as if it were the bubonic plague, which wiped-out 40% of England around year 1348.

[setter]

“Wait til it hits India and Africa. BOOM!”

Will not even make a dent. They breed like roaches.

Africa: CW, genocide, famine, disease, HIV, tribal strife and their population is still supposed to double in the next 100 years

[the_Watchman]

I’m paying attention to this thread since I had a Google Hangouts session with a high school student who is in Kathmandu on Tuesday night. I am tutoring them in physics.

[Smogger]

Captain Tripps.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

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.

[central_va]

I hope the Dalai Lama is OK!

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Hand Sanitizer & Masks will be in HIGH demand.

[kaehurowing]

I am sure they are sold out already . . . .

[Jane Long]

Masks are pretty much sold out in NYC drug stores (head a report on either FNC or OANN, earlier).

[kaehurowing]

I went for an eye exam at my ophthalmologist, who is in the ophthalmology department at a local hospital. They gave me a mask to wear.

[kaehurowing]

I should have clarified this was yesterday.

[Old Yeller]

Uh oh, getting close to India.

[bgill]

Wait til it hits our weak border.