China Reports First Human Case of H10N3 Bird Flu (reuters.com) 83
A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday. From a report: Many different strains of bird flu are present in China and some sporadically infect people, usually those working with poultry. There is no indication that H10N3 can spread easily in humans. The man, a resident of the city of Zhenjiang, was hospitalized on April 28 and diagnosed with H10N3 on May 28, the health commission said. It did not give details on how the man was infected. His condition is now stable and he is ready to be discharged. Investigation of his close contacts found no other cases, the NHC said. No other cases of human infection with H10N3 have been reported globally, it added.
I'm saying it. (Score:5, Funny)
The Chinese Flu 2: Electric Boogaflu
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Get a hold of your self! Anyone got gloves to I can slap the panic out of this person.
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W.H.O.O.S.H. [ya fucking idiot]
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I feel stupider reading that. FFS some people.
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Not really a surprise. History repeats itself.
1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say
For decades, scientists have debated where in the world the pandemic started, variously pinpointing its origins in France, China, the American Midwest, and beyond. Without a clear location, scientists have lacked a complete picture of the conditions that bred the disease and factors that might lead to similar outbreaks in the future.
The deadly "Spanish flu" claimed more lives than Worl
Facepalm (Score:2, Offtopic)
Facepalm
WTF China (Score:4, Insightful)
Get your shit together. How can anyone take you seriously as a rising power if shit like this keeps happening? How many novel forms of the flu have they had now? SARS, H1N1, Covid19, now this? They are doing something wrong. Pigs and Birds are on every continent yet only China keeps getting these new diseases. Probably unsanitary livestock conditions.
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H1N1 came from the US [wikipedia.org] last time it reached pandemic status.
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H1N1 was detected in Mexico, the strain had genetic markers originating from Asia though. It also killed almost 400,000 people in Asia, if it had originated in Mexico, don't you think it would've had a greater impact in North America than it did?
Re:WTF China (Score:4, Interesting)
Covid-19 was detected in China. It also killed over 400,000 people in the USA, if it had originated in China, don't you think it would've had a greater impact in Asia than it did? ...or maybe the first affected area is not always the most affected, and viruses can mutate to be more lethal in a different part of the world than they begin in.
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Or maybe it has to do with how a country responds to the virus. One country locked people in their homes through military intervention while every nation it shared a border with closed them. The other country was too busy saying "the wu flu is just like any other flu, I'm your president and I won't be wearing a mask like some kind of flu sissy! 'MURIKA"
Speaking of Asia, have you heard of a country called India?
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Whoosh. The comment you replied to substituted words in guruevi's comment to sarcastically mock it.
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It killed over 10x as much people in China according to the most conservative estimates than what they reported. This is well reported on in the medical literature.
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Wooo! Tangerine Shitgibbon Two!!
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For what it's worth, SARS and COVID19 were not influenza.
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Re:WTF China (Score:5, Funny)
Right? It would be far better if they handled this like the US where an agricultural worker could never afford to go to a doctor in the first place, and the chances of a flu being identified as a specific novel strain are zero, so we'll never hear about this happening.
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Get your shit together. How can anyone take you seriously as a rising power if shit like this keeps happening? How many novel forms of the flu have they had now? SARS, H1N1, Covid19, now this? They are doing something wrong. Pigs and Birds are on every continent yet only China keeps getting these new diseases. Probably unsanitary livestock conditions.
What do you think is going to happen when you cram 1.4 billion people together? If a virus could have a wet-dream, this would be it. I suspect India is going to become a major pandemic incubator in the coming years.
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Not true. Bird and Swine flus arise every season from various areas around the world. Occasionally it is sufficiently different than the prevailing flus, which much of the population has antibodies to, to cause a pandemic. China has a large portion of the world's population, so it starts there with corresponding frequency. May I remind you of 1918, when a bird flu arose in the US, causing the most severe global pandemic since the black plague, remaining the most severe until 2020.
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May I remind you of 1918, when a bird flu arose in the US
It was not a bird flu, it was H1N1 (swine flu).
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The CDC page about it calls it an avian flu. Either they made a mistake, or H1N1 was transmitted from birds to pigs at some point.
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Also, the Mayo Clinic page on H1N1 says:
In the spring of 2009, scientists recognized a particular strain of flu virus known as H1N1. This virus is a combination of viruses from pigs, birds and humans that causes disease in humans.
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How can anyone take you seriously as a rising power if shit like this keeps happening?
It's just fortunate we stopped taking the USA seriously a long time ago, otherwise the novel A(H3N2) jumping from swine to human a few months ago in the USA would have been scandalous! https://www.who.int/csr/don/05... [who.int]
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If I understood correctly, quite some body parts from slaughtered animals are not used in food at all in non-Asian countries. Also, in China and other Asian countries, all body parts of slaughtered animals are used in food/medicine.
Preparing those body parts can be done safely, but I'm also pretty sure that safety standards are not always followed properly. And then all bets are off when introduced into the human body in any shape or form.
Perhaps my view on the matter is too dim. On the other hand, having t
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The rest of the world can't act all high-and-mighty over this. In the early noughts (2003 or so), the Mad Cow outbreaks were swept under the rug by US inspectors; they just told farmers to burn the cows and bury them, and never to call them again, if they had cases (can't have numbers if you never count, right?)
All the while, insisting it was *Canada* that had the Mad Cow problem (which, to be fair, did as well) but the US wanted to pretend their herds were A-OK, so they could keep the border closed in defi
A man is coughing in China? (Score:1, Funny)
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Mr President, on behalf of the Madagascan tourism industry I'd like to ask for a bail-out...
Regret (Score:3, Funny)
> confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N
Now the world will come to regret Trump not being in charge. If we just followed his advice, no one would have tested this man and we wouldn't be hearing this news.
> No other cases of human infection with H10N3 have been reported globally
Luckily, there's still time to stop testing and keep the confirmed cases to one.
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I'd rather Trump than Xi Jingping any day of the week.
There's a big difference between Trump's "incompetence and fascism", which is mostly just biased media overblowing shit that doesn't matter, and Xi's gross incompetence and incredibly heavy handed fascism.
Déjà vu (Score:1)
"We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
"The new flu is very much under control in the USA⦠Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
"CDC are doing a GREAT job of handling new flu."
"I think that's a problem that's going to go away... They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we're very close to a vaccine."
"The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going
China says "nothing to see here" (Score:2)
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WTF are you talking about. They reported it. How do you think we know about it.
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WTF are you talking about. They reported it. How do you think we know about it.
Look over there!
Puppies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Well there is nothing to see here. Not until it becomes an epidemic. It's not like this stuff doesn't regularly happen everywhere, such as A(H3N2) jumping from swine to person in Wisconsin in January this year. You didn't read that on Fox news did ja!
Funny thing is (Score:2)
if anything happens in China with a new infection the world will be sure to take note.
Just in case it's a hoax... (Score:2)
Let's take no precautions and spit into each other's open mouths until the danger has passed.
Thank fuck we have a real leader these days.
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Our real leader hasn't done anything about it yet even though this case has been known to Chinese authorities since April 28.
The USA is falling behind (Score:2)
Not one global pandemic originating here. Come on, West Virginia. There's got to be something more exotic than possum, raccoon and squirrel that you can eat. Shoot up and get your self psyched for something more exotic. We need your help.
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Arkansas
I meant Kansas.
Deja Vu (Score:2)
"There is no indication of human to human spread"
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Seriously. Let me go to the checklist
-stock up on TP
-clear the shelves of Clorox wipes (to trade with later)
-Sell AMC and buy more AMZN
-Build respirator from raspberry pi and a Dyson vacuum
Missing anything?
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- wash hands with soap frequently
- stay at home at all times - put mandatory 24-hour nationwide curfew into affect; disallow office work. work from home only except for company management work and employees in an essential job role supporting DHS-recognized critical functions or infrastructure. don't eat out. Close public entertainment venues, theatres, bars, spas, pools, barbers, gymns, etc. only go out to stores for essential products; only leave if staying outside and far away from other people
- mask
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Learn how to read dimwit AC. I am merely pointing out the "no indication of human to human transmission" in both cases.
What the world thinks, is their business. I just see it as my responsibility here to ensure people never forgets 2019.
Hopefully the world will also continues to remember 8964, too.
H10N3: Make China Great Again and Again ! (Score:1)
Covid is over - Flu is back (Score:2)
Talking Heads lyric comes to mind... (Score:2)
Compare and contrast... (Score:2)
Today, China says: "There is no indication that H10N3 can spread easily in humans."
Jan. 2020, China says "“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,”
Well, the WHO said that second one, but WHO basically = China anyway.