Plague Outbreak

[CassidyAcid]

^ Oh I'm sorry to hear that, thta sounds like my worst nightmare <_<

I take it everythings OK now?

 

[wpstudart]

Yes, I'm fine as new :lol: But I was baaaad as hell that day

 

[Romero]

It's because their eating dogs, cats etc. That's my theory on how SARS started, the virus was transfered from animals to humans. They also have big food marketing on the street in the sun and things like that in some parts of asia.

I don't think it got anything to do with their diet. A living pet is more of a health risk than a properly cooked one. How they prepare the food is of greater importance. So you are on to something when you mention the street markets.
Crowded areas with poor hygiene are where most diseases starts.

Sky News recently got information that it's an airborne virus, so it's impossible to quarantine it.

The specific plague mentioned is not a virus. It is the bacteria Yersinia pestis. If this is a virus it must be another form of deadly plague.

They are lucky if it's not pneumonic plague:

Pneumonic plague is a very aggressive infection requiring rapid antibiotic treatment within around 24 hours of infection.

Early treatment of pneumonic plague is essential. To reduce the risk of death, antibiotics must be given within 24 hours of first symptoms.

24 hours...

I always see big pandemic virsuses as lifes way of saying"Humans are way too overpopulated!".You may cure one thing but something else is always gonna pop up.Humans are fragile dude but i'm confident nothing like that will get me, i just make myself believe that i will never catch whatever it is haha.Well its better then being paranoid right?

You have got a point about the overpopulation. I've been thinking that myself, but it's an unpleasant thought- because we typically like to think that here's room for everyone. But I think that as the population continues to rise, we will see more and more epidemics and pandemics.
Neither carelessness nor paranoia are good, a bit of carefulness is.

Me too, I already got a disease like that, and got with a 42° fever. Almost died in the first day.

Wow, it had to be a really nasty one to be life threathening so quickly.

I just keep thinking of that time I had to go into hospital because I had severe flu (just normal flu, mind, not H1N1) and it was horrible.. most of its all blurry cuz I slept for like 30+ hours but I remember being far too hot, and my breathing going... thats why I was so cautious when Swine Flu became big news.

It also terrified me as the first cases to be recognized in the UK were in Monklands Hospital, which is like 2 miles down the road from me and that's the hospital I go to when I'm ill.

Stay away from hospitals if you can. That is where alot of people get ill. No joke.

 

[CassidyAcid]

^

Yeah which is ridiculous considering how they are supposed to be "clean" and "sanitized" places. You hear about people going into hospitals with broken legs or whatever and coming out with MRSA =/

 

[Valentine]

Indeed has to do with their diet that's how SARS outbreak oucured. I was in MicroBiology class and did some researsch on this and it turned out that the virus came from the animals and was transfered over to humans.

 

[wolfgirl]

Yeah, unfortunately I got a 42° fever, but it wasn't a flu, it was another disease, a tropical disease. I'll check how it's called in English, just a minute.

EDIT: In Brazil is named Dengue, in English is called Dengue Fever. Very different. Anyway, Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, particularly A. aegypti and A. albopictus. Dengue may also be transmitted via infected blood products (blood transfusions, plasma, and platelets), but the scale of this problem is unknown.

I got 'bitten' by Aedes Aegypti and got the disease. I got the 'simple' one, but I had a tough break. When I saw I was with that fever, I needed to take a cold shower ASAP. But I couldn't get off bed, luck of mine that mum was home. She take me to the shower and put a really cold water. I had a Termic 'shock' (when you're body is hot, and you get him cold too quick), which is bad, but necessary. But at least, that fever was only that day. Never again.

Man, that sounds terrifying :S I'm glad you're OK!! I see your location status has changed - Brazil's a bit hotter than the Arklay Mountains, yeah? lol


It seems like the plague outbreak should be alright, though:

WHO spokeswoman Vivian Tan said China reported the first death and 11 other cases to the organisation on Saturday.

Such an outbreak was always a concern, she said, but praised the Chinese for reacting quickly.

'When it comes to outbreaks of the plague it's always quite worrying, but it looks like the authorities have got the situation under control,' she said.

'This area is quite remote and the population is very small so this should make it easier to contain.'

Experts said the authorities were being very open – in contrast to previous cases.

Health officials in Qinghai have been concerned about pneumonic plague for some time.

In February, they said they had sent out 55 teams across the province to help monitor and control the disease.

First symptoms of pneumonic plague include fever, headache and shortness of breath.

In 2004, eight villagers in Qinghai province died of plague, most of them infected after killing or eating wild marmots, animals that are related to gophers and prairie dogs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...onic-plague-China-places-town-quarantine.html

 

[Romero]

Indeed has to do with their diet that's how SARS outbreak oucured. I was in MicroBiology class and did some researsch on this and it turned out that the virus came from the animals and was transfered over to humans.

No, I think the diet was only an indirect cause. The direct cause for it was human contact with living birds. If they ate it or not didn't matter. This is what I believe because it seems logical.

You can argue that the diet was an indirect cause, because if they had a different diet the birds would not have been so close to humans in the first place.

 

[Valentine]

It has been proven that the same virus was in the animals and then transfered to humans. Through ex: food markets in the hot sun with bad hygen... It is proven that the same virus was in the animals, it was a corona virus that later mutated in to SARS, I don't have time to go through my papers to look it up now.

 

[wpstudart]

Man, that sounds terrifying :S I'm glad you're OK!! I see your location status has changed - Brazil's a bit hotter than the Arklay Mountains, yeah? lol

Yeah, it's hotter at least :lol: And don't have Tyrants on it.

 

[Romero]

It has been proven that the same virus was in the animals and then transfered to humans. Through ex: food markets in the hot sun with bad hygen... It is proven that the same virus was in the animals, it was a corona virus that later mutated in to SARS, I don't have time to go through my papers to look it up now.

I'm not disagreeing on this, I know the virus came from the birds.
I think you agree with me if you understand me.

 

[Valentine]

Same to you

 

[wolfgirl]

I think you agree with me if you understand me.

That sounds almost threatening, lol!

 

[Romero]

If Valentine took it as a threat he would have laughed his ass off.

On topic, I think they got the plague under control, at least I've not heard anything which is hopefully a good sign.

 

[wpstudart]

I hope they did too, But I haven't heard anything about it, just here.

 

[wolfgirl]

No news is good news, as they say ^^

 

[Romero]

^^ Yes, but with China you never know for sure. They don't have a habit of reporting bad news. But in this case I think they were more open than earlier. So they're learning.

 

[wpstudart]

Yeah, they don't say many things to the public, they don't have the 'expressive freedom'