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Reading one article dated January 21 2020, China has confirmed 26 dead and 800 sick with it. Another a friend has sent states there are at least 9 in the Alameda County of California's San Francisco Bay Area.
We know the virus is is part of the Coronavirus family which is fairly common, the main cause of the common cold in fact. THey can effect a wide range of animals like birds and mammals. In cattle they have been known to give them diarrhea, but its mostly known for its upper respiratory problems. Most of the time, these viruses are not particularly dangerous because after all the biggest difference between a Flu and a Cold is a Flu can kill you, a Cold makes you wish it would already.
This said, they can be deadly as was shown with the SARS outbreak back in 2003, where it's mayhem lasted 6 months and had almost 8,089 cases with 774 deaths in 17 countries (so about a less then 10% chance of dying from it). It was believed to have been transferred from an animal to a human, as is the case with most of the viruses in this catagory.
This is also believed to be the case with the Wuhan variant, so named because it was discovered in the City of Wuhan in central China. Most of the infected so far are those that were in the city or passed through it or other parts of Central China.
So what do we know about the Wuhan virus?
Its been not very old, or at least it official reports are not very old. New York Times covered its discovery on the 9th of this month, and from there has killed 26 people and infected 800 that have been confirmed. Like with SARS, the deaths are mostly with people with preexisting issues like older men with high blood pressure and diabetes, much like SARS. THe youngest death was a 48 year old woman and the oldest was an 89 year old man.
Its suspected to come from the live animal markets where people go to get their food. The animals are alive at the time of selling usually because fresh is best. Nothing is confirmed, but one market where a large number of the early known infected people worked at was shut down and heavily sanitized.
We know its mostly kept to China, but a handful of cases have cropped up in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the US, with Mexico and Sadi Arabia investigating potential risks.
We're not sure how exactly is spread, but potential person to person, so maybe like how a cold or flu gets spread around.
We also don't know how dangeorus it is. It might be something minor, mostly being a threat to those that are the very young and old, or it could be more tramatic.
The flue kills about 35000 a year, and infects 200,000. Every once in a while you get something like the Spanish Flu which killed more people in World War 1 than the actual war, or the 2009 Swine Flu Epidemic which had a high toll mostly from how far and wide it spread.
At this point its too early to tell.
I say wash your hands, stay home if you're sick
Don't let your kids go out if they are sick.
Face Masks can be more fashionable than being sick.
Any of you have thoughts on this, especially anyone with more than my shot glass worth of info on it?
Reading one article dated January 21 2020, China has confirmed 26 dead and 800 sick with it. Another a friend has sent states there are at least 9 in the Alameda County of California's San Francisco Bay Area.
We know the virus is is part of the Coronavirus family which is fairly common, the main cause of the common cold in fact. THey can effect a wide range of animals like birds and mammals. In cattle they have been known to give them diarrhea, but its mostly known for its upper respiratory problems. Most of the time, these viruses are not particularly dangerous because after all the biggest difference between a Flu and a Cold is a Flu can kill you, a Cold makes you wish it would already.
This said, they can be deadly as was shown with the SARS outbreak back in 2003, where it's mayhem lasted 6 months and had almost 8,089 cases with 774 deaths in 17 countries (so about a less then 10% chance of dying from it). It was believed to have been transferred from an animal to a human, as is the case with most of the viruses in this catagory.
This is also believed to be the case with the Wuhan variant, so named because it was discovered in the City of Wuhan in central China. Most of the infected so far are those that were in the city or passed through it or other parts of Central China.
So what do we know about the Wuhan virus?
Its been not very old, or at least it official reports are not very old. New York Times covered its discovery on the 9th of this month, and from there has killed 26 people and infected 800 that have been confirmed. Like with SARS, the deaths are mostly with people with preexisting issues like older men with high blood pressure and diabetes, much like SARS. THe youngest death was a 48 year old woman and the oldest was an 89 year old man.
Its suspected to come from the live animal markets where people go to get their food. The animals are alive at the time of selling usually because fresh is best. Nothing is confirmed, but one market where a large number of the early known infected people worked at was shut down and heavily sanitized.
We know its mostly kept to China, but a handful of cases have cropped up in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the US, with Mexico and Sadi Arabia investigating potential risks.
We're not sure how exactly is spread, but potential person to person, so maybe like how a cold or flu gets spread around.
We also don't know how dangeorus it is. It might be something minor, mostly being a threat to those that are the very young and old, or it could be more tramatic.
The flue kills about 35000 a year, and infects 200,000. Every once in a while you get something like the Spanish Flu which killed more people in World War 1 than the actual war, or the 2009 Swine Flu Epidemic which had a high toll mostly from how far and wide it spread.
At this point its too early to tell.
I say wash your hands, stay home if you're sick
Don't let your kids go out if they are sick.
Face Masks can be more fashionable than being sick.
Any of you have thoughts on this, especially anyone with more than my shot glass worth of info on it?