It’s not pandemic, post-apocalyptic, rage zombie time, but we need to pay attention. The Coronavirus is a SARS strain with pneumonia-like symptoms that can be deadly. At present, there are cases reported in China, Japan, Thailand, and at least one confirmed case in the United States.
The virus causes a type of pneumonia. Symptoms include fever and difficulty in breathing.
The virus is spreading, including to Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Tianjin City. It is moving past China into Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and even a case confirmed in Washington state.
The source appears to be fruit bats and “originated in wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan. (…)The new virus and the SARS virus are both mutations of HKU9-1, a virus found in fruit bats, the researchers said, according to the South China Morning Post.
Are you picturing the pig eating the banana dropped by the fruit bat (in China) from the movie Contagion? This is eerily similar.
The number of cases is expected to rise. Saturday is Lunar New Year and the holiday period is when millions of Chinese will travel domestically and overseas, therefore increasing the risk of more transmission. The World Health Organization (WHO) isn’t issuing any travel restrictions yet but is convening an emergency committee Wednesday to determine if an international health emergency should be declared.
A vaccine estimate is out to about 6-months, but the Chinese have been much more forthcoming with details this time around, so containment seems more likely than with SARS (2002-2004 – 8000+ sick, 774 dead). The WHO and most every health entity on the planet is on high alert, with the following common-sense suggestions to prevent spread.
On Wednesday, @WHO will convene Emergency Committee to determine if recent coronavirus outbreak constitutes a public health emergency & discuss next steps to control the spread of the illness.
More in this Q&A, including steps to take to stay healthy: https://t.co/IiaPWjzAwg pic.twitter.com/ijTnNYljpG
— United Nations (@UN) January 22, 2020
Wash your hands’ people. Hottest water you can stand, several times a day. Regular soap works as well as anything. Just like it was flu season, which it is. Business as usual, at least here in the Northeast. No contagious rage zombies, other than the Democrat socialists for which we already know the cure. Wash your hands of them too. Stop electing them to public office.
| HotAir
