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CDC confirms first US case of coronavirus that has killed 6 in China

-Public health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of a mysterious coronavirus that has already killed at least six people and sickened hundreds of others in China, the CDC says.

-A male traveler from China has been diagnosed in Snohomish County, Washington State with the Wuhan coronavirus, according to the CDC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/cdc-to-a...nn-reports.html

But Coronas are tasty....

NoooooOOOOO!

The World Health Organization is expected to convene a panel of experts in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday to consider whether the illness should be a global health emergency.

The last time WHO declared a global health emergency was in 2019 for the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo that killed more than 2,000 people. The agency also declared global emergencies for the 2016 Zika virus , the 2009 H1N1 swine flu and the 2014 polio and Ebola outbreaks.

Eh, Black Plague is also alive and killing people in the USA every year.

I dont think it matters until it becomes endemic.

Just have a lime with it, the scurvy will stay away.

It is?

I didn't know!

Seems you guys are not taking this seriously. The local information dispusers said the Virus is now in the "US" and what "I" should do, after this,
Well I didn't see the story, so I'll just have to take precautions on my own suspicions

I duct taped my windows top to bottom, this will keep the sunlight from transferring the corona virus in full, but hopefully break it into 2 parts for easier study later.
I suggest make sure no one is outside when leaving your residence, and have taken to wearing ski masks whenever entering (OR LEAVING) a convienent store or gas station.

purchase 6 air filters and place them over your in home air vents, (6 layers deep and place wax paper between two of those layers to allow air movement, but to catch the corona virus,
And as always, carry an umbrella if you are in direct sunlight! But everybody already knew that.
For anyone who didn't know, purple = sarcasm.

The Chinese government has quarantined the city of Wuhan and plans to shut down the airport and public transportation within hours, according to reports on the country’s social networks. The virus has been linked to at least 17 deaths and has sickened over 400 others - Fox News

On the menu at China virus market: rats and live wolf pups
AFP Relax News AFP Relax News•January 22, 2020

Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drive their vehicle as they leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan.
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The food market where China's deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.

The Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan came under greater scrutiny on Wednesday as Chinese officials said that the virus which has so far killed nine people and infected hundreds may have originated in a wild animal sold at the food emporium.

Past deadly epidemics have been blamed on wild animals -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was linked to Chinese consumption of civet meat -- setting Chinese authorities up for potential embarrassment if lax supervision of wildlife trafficking is found at fault in the latest outbreak.

A price list circulating on China's internet for a business at the Wuhan market lists a menagerie of animals or animal-based products including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, camel meat and other game -- 112 items in all.

"Freshly slaughtered, frozen and delivered to your door," said the price list for the vendor, "Wild Game Animal Husbandry for the Masses".

Gao Fu, director of the Chinese centre for disease control and prevention, said in Beijing on Wednesday that authorities believe the virus likely came from "wild animals at the seafood market" though the exact source remains undetermined.

China bans the trafficking of a number of wild species or requires special licenses, but regulations are loose for some species if they are commercially farmed.

AFP was unable to directly confirm the authenticity of the price list. Phone calls to the vendor went unanswered, and attempts to connect to its social media accounts were rejected.

The Beijing News published a photo Tuesday showing the same vendor's now-shuttered store front, as authorities in white hazmat suits milled about.

The paper also quoted other merchants as saying trade in wildlife took place up until the market was shuttered for disinfection shortly after the outbreak.

A number of the early sufferers of the virus, now known as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), were employees of the market.

- Virus 'spillover' -

Many exotic species are still widely consumed in China or other Asian countries where they are considered a delicacy -- like the civet or some rats or bats -- or for purported health benefits that are unproven by science.

But this brings growing human health risks, said Christian Walzer, executive director of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society's Health Program.

Walzer said 70 percent of all new infectious diseases come from wildlife, with habitat encroachment increasing the chances of pathogens spreading.

"Wildlife markets offer a unique opportunity for viruses to spill over from wildlife hosts," he said.

"It is essential to invest resources not only into discovering new viruses, but more importantly, in determining the epidemiological drivers of... (the) spillover, amplification, and spread of infectious diseases."

Bats are thought to have spawned SARS, which in 2002-03 killed hundreds of people in Asia, mostly China.

SARS was also found in civets in wildlife markets in China, with many scientists believing the bat virus infected the cat-like creatures and then humans who ate them.

Following SARS, China cracked down on consumption of civets and some other species, but conservationists say the trade continues.

China has so far won praise for its openness and handling of the current outbreak in stark contrast to SARS, when it was accused of stifling information and failing to cooperate with the rest of the world.

The city of Wuhan has about 3 million more people than New York City. The number of cases could grow very quickly

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10784540/coronavirus-death-toll-wuhan-china/


Definitely worth a read.
Also saw today that antibiotics aren’t working

Antibiotics don't work on Viruses.

::looks at pile of guns & ammo::

PLEASE, let this finally be the zombie apocalypse!!

Trivia question.

If there is a zombie apocalypse, where is the best place to hide?

Just another example of Gov'tal regulatory overreach stifling business...

Someone should lobby President Xi.

When did Chinese restaurants start offering more than cats and dogs on their menu?

I have a friend that goes to China regularly. He’s eaten horse there a few times. So there’s that.

Side note. When I was in Cambodia dog could be found on some (few) menus. Protein is protein.

They did. Shortly afterward, China announced the first batch of Soylent Green.

Coronavirus cases rise to nearly 650 worldwide as new countries confirm infections

-China has quarantined two major cities with a combined population of 17 million, and planned a similar lockdown for another city on Friday.

-The World Health Organization is reconvening an emergency meeting in Geneva on Thursday, after postponing its decision on whether to designate the new virus as a global health emergency.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/23/china-co...-infection.html

That's disturbing.

For dinner we're starting with a light Lassie, followed by a hearty Rin Tin Tin, and for dessert, Old Yeller cup cakes.

There should never be meat in cupcakes.

Snakes could be source of deadly coronavirus outbreak

The newly discovered coronavirus is linked to a large seafood and animal market in Wuhan, which sells birds, bats, snakes, rabbits, hedgehogs, frogs and other live animals.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/n...ms7e-story.html

We in western cultures have a different relationship with dogs. Obviously. They’re part of our families. Our fur kids.
In places like Cambodia they’re street animals. Or used on farms to keep varmint animals at bey. They’re also four legged bags of protein to people that struggled to survive under rulers such as Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge killed their own people en mass. These mass killings, along with malnutrition and poor medical care, killed nearly 2 million people. A quarter of Cambodia's population. In these conditions, if I were starving, dog would be on the menu too.
As Cambodia rises from the ashes of despot communism, we’re only talking the late 1990’s, life is improving for its people. Dog is less and less seen as part of the nations diet. Hopefully as the country moves forward it’ll only be a footnote of a their much larger story.

Those practices will also linger a little longer after the need is gone.

It's okay, it was just his sweet tooth.

I was in Shanghai and Beijing for business last week...I have colleagues that believe they were on the same flight as the guy from Washington (good likelyhood since it was the same day, same start/end). I've had a dozen or so text messages in the last few days as well as countless colleagues check in with me this week as well. Thankfully I'm feeling fine, although exhausted from an 80 hour week followed up by 45 hours in an airport/plane due to cancellations.

Considering how this thing has progressed the last 2 days, I feel a bit thankful and lucky. Also sad for my Chinese colleagues considering Lunar New Year starts this weekend.

And I'm supposed to go back in Feb and March, but it is looking like that won't happen. As much as I'd like the 100k miles (Business Class) and the phenomenal food, I'm ok with not going back for a while.

1f

They eat horse in Western Europe also. People eat horse basically everywhere that is not the USA. Because it's illegal here.

I wouldn't eat a dog, because I won't eat carnivorous animals. And the thought of eating a doggo horrifies me.

But I'm ok with livestock such as horse. (even as a former horse owner)

J/C

Racist jokes about eating dogs in a thread about people dying over in Asia are okay, yet we make a forum to contain “toxic” discussion of politics.

What’s next week? A thread that praises minstrel shows?

Never change, DawgTalkers

We joked about eating cats as well.

Glad you are safe.

Coronavirus death toll rises to 26 with more than 900 confirmed cases worldwide

-The majority of the reported cases are in mainland China where travel bans were in effect Friday for at least 10 cities.

-Multiple cases of the virus have been confirmed in Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore and Japan.

-The United States and Taiwan and have each reported one case.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/coronavi...-worldwide.html

CDC confirms second US case of coronavirus and is monitoring 63 other possible infections

-U.S. health officials diagnosed a second patient with the China coronavirus — a Chicago woman who returned from Wuhan with the infection.

-They are currently monitoring 63 other potential cases here.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/cdc-conf...-diagnosed.html

My favorite comment on this is from the comedian who had a show way back about 2002, wish I could remember his name, (want to say Kurt Loder) because his delivery really sells it,
What's the first rule of the Zombie apocolaypse? "you mean besides remembering that Zombies aren't real!"
eidt::: It "IS" Joel McHale.

In a house surrounded by treadmills, of course!

Zombie Apocalypse best place to hide:

Pre- Calculus- "201"- University- Classroom.

Behind your Mummy's dress?

The answer is Walmart.

Because Walmart has: Guns, Ammo, Medicine, Food, Clothes, Entertainment, Bathrooms

Like everything you could possibly need, when the Zombies come.

I like this answer though lol