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Mystery pneumonia outbreak in China sparks fear of deadly SARS virus
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I'm hoping that it is just a small thing and that the Chinese government isn't severely under-reporting the situation.
China tends to not do anything about small problems then do crazy af shit to solve out of control problems.
So according to cnn*, the disease originated in a seafood market that was doubling as an exotic animal market where people can just buy any wild animal for consumption and they just had all the animals in pet cages like some kind of fucked up zoo - including the same animal that started SARS civet cats 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
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*Chinese social media vids which got removed/cannot be verified
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This is unfortunately not an uncommon way to store animals meant to be put on the market in many, mostly developing, countries, and it is a serious problem for disease spread.
For the third time in a short topic, Contagion was based, although exaggerated, on a real case study of zoonotic disease transmission. It's not a new thing, the movie was not prophetic but descriptive.
Prolly bring your own utensils and don't swap fluids with anyone.
I think most of the animals are fine, but maybe don't store civet cats - the banned source of SARS.
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One weibo user from Wuhan said his mother was infected and dead. Body was cremated soon after and not counted in the official number.
Well.....
The thing is all mammals and avians carry diseases. And those diseases usually do not cross the species border. Until they do. It's a risk in general to have any avian/mammal interaction. Birds and pigs carry influenza strains that can cross the border. Primates can infect one another. Bats have infected pigs which infected humans.
Banning one animal doesn't negate that. You generally want to separate species as best as possible. And containing them to limited areas where their urine, feces, and other bodily fluids can maintain contact ain't great. Butchering methods also leave a lot to be desired, as mixing blood and open wounds on humans is common.
Normally I'd take stuff like this with a pinch of salt but yeah, if there's 1 country which would try to hide or lessen the seriousness of the situation until it gets so out of control that it simply becomes impossible to hide the facts it would be China.
Actually getting better sleep will do better than multivitamins for most people. And stay hydrated on the plane.
Masks are actually for people to stop spreading the disease. Stops the cough/sneeze droplets. Your everyday clinical mask won't do much to prevent you from getting it. Unless it's one of those full face ones that are completely sealed.
Touching your face after touching surfaces that sick people touch. Probably airborne as well so when you inhale couch/sneeze droplets of someone who didn't cover their mouth when they coughed/sneezed.
I have a flu-like fever right now, and I live in Sydney, so I guess I'd better start writing my will.
Ok so this thread freaked me out for a few seconds, my brother has been in hospital here in the UK all weekend after waking up early hours of Saturday morning unwell and the hospital realised he had pneumonia, he was put into a quarantine room as well because they weren't sure what caused it, so seeing this thread just now made me wonder, but apparently they are releasing him today and he is already getting better so now I can just go back to hoping that I don't end up catching something bad from someone on my plane flight to America in 3 weeks and then the flight I am taking for my honeymoon 8 days later to Hawaii......that would suck.
Well one thing they do to prevent a person from getting infected is that they decrease the likelyhoood of a person touching their nose or mouth with dirty hands.
Looks like there's an new thread with updated news: https://www.resetera.com/threads/deadly-corona-virus-spreading-in-asia-and-japan.165901/
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