Virus Outbreak in China

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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2239033.htm

ELEANOR HALL: Now to the risks for children in China, where the World Health Organisation has sought to calm fears about the outbreak of a disease which has killed nearly 30 children and made nearly 16,000 others sick.

Almost all the victims of the Enterovirus have been under five years old and most lived in the same area.

The World Health Organisation is now warning that there could be tens of thousands more cases that haven't yet been reported.

China Correspondent Stephen McDonell has our report.

STEPHEN MCDONELL: The outbreak of a deadly virus in south-eastern China's Fuyang City has caused a national health alert.

In that one city 22 children, mostly under five years old, have died. Thousands more are sick and the cases appear to spreading around the country.
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Yeah - and i'm sure we would all say "20 million sick out of 7 billion? pffft" too...

The thing is that this shiaat is spreading, and the other thing - isn't the olympics supposed to be there? hmm....then all countries could be having this problem...
 
I think it's only a matter of time before some oak in these other countries eats some "bad" monkey meat, and starts a world-wide outbreak. i'm not being far fetched am I?

Anyone remember the beginning of "I am Legend" ? Scary thought, and it's very possible indeed.

If you go to YouTube and find some recent CNN/whatever news clips, they show how the virus is spreading, and I hear China's Gov. has tried to keep this under wraps.
 
Keeper said:
I think it's only a matter of time before some oak in these other countries eats some "bad" monkey meat, and starts a world-wide outbreak. i'm not being far fetched am I?

Anyone remember the beginning of "I am Legend" ? Scary thought, and it's very possible indeed.

If you go to YouTube and find some recent CNN/whatever news clips, they show how the virus is spreading, and I hear China's Gov. has tried to keep this under wraps.
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We couldn't no if it were possible till it actually happened.
The black plague killed off something like a third of the population of Europe in the middle ages then disapeared without any sort of scientific or medical intervention.
The point is that even if it was theoretically possible, this out break is hardly the first out break of disease, so what makes it special?
 
Nick333 said:
We couldn't know if it were possible till it actually happened.
The black plague killed off something like a third of the population of Europe in the middle ages then disapeared without any sort of scientific or medical intervention.
The point is that even if it was theoretically possible, this out break is hardly the first out break of disease, so what makes it special?
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Very true, some die and others become immune :D

Nature is nice to some cruel to others :p
 
Well, IMHO we have come a very far way from 1966. We are Connected!

We are in an age where you can travel from anywhere, to anywhere within a few hours.

People in countries such as china, are very densly populated. this means a new virus could spread quite fast, without anyone even knowing.

There is nothing special about this virus, if they KEEP it under control. My GF works at OR Tambo so i'm screwed if it gets to SA. great.
 
Yea if your older than 8, you're safe... So Im pretty f&*ked
 
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