comment by Oscar. 2019 YEAR OF THE MACK! #TeamFury (U12980)
posted 2 minutes ago
should we be worried tho?
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na

Was you worried about foot and mouth? More localised to britain.

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fkin daily mail just scare monger tho don't they

comment by Gazza (U1266)
posted about a minute ago
830 cases in a disease that originated in a city of 11m. Seems like even if you live in Wuhan that you would have to be very unlucky to catch it as things stand.
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thank you gazza hope you're right

apparently it had actually been around for the last 3 months as well

Hopefully all these people in scotland and UK being tested for it is gets negative response and just standard colds and they just diagnose briefly initially as coronavirus just incase

comment by Oscar. 2019 YEAR OF THE MACK! #TeamFury (U12980)
posted 2 minutes ago
fkin daily mail just scare monger tho don't they
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That's what tabloids do though isn't it, they're about as newsworthy as Beano. I heard that most of the people that died from it were people already suffering from other conditions that probably had severely compromised immune systems etc.

I don't know the exact mortality rate so far, but from what I've read, almost all the fatalities have been elderly people with a weakened immune system and other underlying conditions.

The media love a good health scares, it really gets the click-counter spinning.

They're having a field day saying this could be as bad as the SARS epidemic ... which despite causing a massive scare too, only killed 800-odd worldwide, when regular flu epidemics wipe out thousands every year.

the spanish one was the worst one ever wasn't it?

comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Oscar. 2019 YEAR OF THE MACK! #TeamFury (U12980)
posted 2 minutes ago
fkin daily mail just scare monger tho don't they
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That's what tabloids do though isn't it, they're about as newsworthy as Beano. I heard that most of the people that died from it were people already suffering from other conditions that probably had severely compromised immune systems etc.
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It's not just the tabloids when it comes to health scares though.

The Guardian are splashing this all over their front pages too. And I imagine U.S. media will be having a field day.

This current scare also feeds nicely into racist/xenophobic narratives and 'all that is bad' about China. Rumours are already circulating about how it came about, with the two leading stories putting it down either to eating bats or its having escaped from a lab, i.e. because they're a 'filthy', 'disgusting', 'sinister' bunch

comment by Oscar. 2019 YEAR OF THE MACK! #TeamFury (U12980)
posted 10 minutes ago
the spanish one was the worst one ever wasn't it?
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Think it's generally thought to be, yes. Thought to have killed between 50 and 100 million. But even strains that aren't particularly bad kill bucketloads of people.

From Wikipedia, which in turn quotes the World Health Organization:

"Influenza spreads around the world in yearly outbreaks, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths."

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Yeah probably, but I was talking specifically about flu.

I'm not sure which exact disease or diseases were involved, but the death rates amongst the native populations of the Americans when European colonization began were on another scale, as they had no natural immunity to a lot of the stuff we carried over.

Can't remember exactly which territory it referred to, maybe the Aztec Empire or some such, but I read recently that within a few years of Europeans settling there the indigenous population was estimated to have dropped from 10 million to 1 million.

*Americas, not Americans

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