Coronavirus spreads more easily from person to person than previously thought, says WHO official

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

The Wuhan coronavirus that has killed at least 17 people and infected more than 600 spreads more easily from person to person than previously thought, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) official.

“We are now seeing second and third generation spread,” said Dr. David Heymann, the chairperson of a WHO committee that is gathering data on the virus.

Third generation means that someone who became infected after handling animals at the market in Wuhan, China, spreads the virus to someone else, who then spreads it to a third person.

The virus initially appeared to spread only by very close contact that would typically occur within a family, such as hugging, kissing, or sharing eating utensils, Heymann said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-intl-hnk/h_2748e6c7898fd744e47b47a135c75203

[Iliyah]

1. The animal needs to be sort out . . .

isolate that animal and hopefully a anti-virus can be made although I'm reading there is at least 8 strains.

The 21st century there should be reasonable regulations not less of it.

[MosheFeingold]

2. The animal story is absurd

Wuhan is home to the Chinese bio-weapons labs.

Captain Tripps (or, it sounds like, Corporal Tripps) got out.

China, to its credit (ironically), is using the full power of its police state to lock this thing down, but it's going to be bad.

[brooklynite]

4. I have a friend, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on infectious disease, who disagrees with you

[MosheFeingold]

6. Great

Hope he or she is correct.

In the mean time, here's an article about the Wuhan lab.

Ihttps://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487

[EndlessWire]

7. Please elaborate. n/t

[brooklynite]

8. "Isolation Is Critical, Expert Warns As China Virus Outbreak Escalates"

“My concern is that this really could explode very much the same way SARS did if everybody doesn’t take the proper precautions immediately,” public health analyst Laurie Garrett told NTD.

Garrett was in China during SARS. She said at the time, most of the dangerous transmissions occurred inside the hospitals, in cases where some health care workers weren’t adequately trained and caught the disease themselves during work.

She suggests hospitals should also separate patients with and without fevers, which China did during the SARS epidemic, to prevent cross infections inside hospitals.

Other than infection control training, Garrett said it’s also crucial to track down the source animal species where the virus comes from, as well as figuring out how many asymptomatic infections there are to understand how contagious the disease is.

https://www.ntd.com/isolation-is-critical-expert-warns-as-china-virus-outbreak-escalates_425729.html

[appalachiablue]

3. Weren't there also recent US changes to loosen regulations on PORK ?

Speaking on the subject of pigs and meat. Glad I don't consume the stuff.

Animal Trade, 'Meat Markets' In Spotlight As China Seeks Source Of Coronavirus,' The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/23/animal-trade-in-spotlight-as-china-seeks-source-of-coronavirus

[3Hotdogs]

5. Pork good. We have the best pork in the world. Our pork is genius rated.

Regulations --BAD !!

[EndlessWire]

9. I heard it was up to 25. n/t

[roamer65]

10. Coughing.