New SARS-like virus is a 'threat to the entire world'...

[Malik]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/28/health/france-coronavirus-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


(CNN) -- A new SARS-like virus recently found in humans is "a threat to the entire world," according to the director-general of the United Nations' World Health Organization.

The so-called novel coronavirus "is not a problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by itself," Margaret Chan said Monday in her closing remarks at the 66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

The world needs to pull together its resources to properly tackle the virus which, Chan said, is her "greatest concern" at present.

"We understand too little about this virus when viewed against the magnitude of its potential threat," she said, and more information is needed "quickly" and "urgently."

"We do not know where the virus hides in nature. We do not know how people are getting infected. Until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention. These are alarm bells. And we must respond," she said.
Coronavirus reported in France
Health workers infected with coronavirus
What is coronavirus?

Novel coronavirus is part of a family called coronaviruses, which cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases. However, the new virus is not SARS.

The virus had infected 44 people worldwide as of last week, most of them in the Middle East, according to the World Health Organization's most recent update Thursday. Half of them have died.

Also in its Thursday update, the WHO appeared to have given the novel coronavirus a name: Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV.

A 23rd death was reported Tuesday, when a French hospital and the French government reported a man diagnosed with the coronavirus had died of organ failure.

The patient, the first of two people to be diagnosed with novel coronavirus, died at University Hospital of Lille, where he had been treated since May 9.

The man contracted the virus while visiting the Arabian Peninsula, said Marisol Touraine, France's minister of social affairs and health, in a statement.

The second patient, also male, was in stable but very serious condition, the hospital said. One of the patients shared a room with the other and contracted the virus.

Joint WHO missions with Saudi Arabia and Tunisia will take place as soon as possible, with the goal of gathering the facts needed to conduct a risk assessment, Chan said Monday.

5 things to know about dangerous, SARS-like virus

Earlier this month, the WHO said two health care workers in Saudi Arabia became ill while treating patients.

Novel coronavirus acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. But symptoms, which include fever and a cough, are severe and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure. Gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea have also been seen, according to the WHO.

It's not yet known how humans contract the virus, experts have said. Most of the cases so far have been seen in older men with other medical conditions; precise numbers are hard to come by, as officials don't know how many people might contract a mild form.

Cases have been identified in eight countries including France and Saudi Arabia, according to the WHO. Other European countries include Germany and the United Kingdom.

No cases have been reported in the United States, but infectious disease experts have said it would not be surprising.

New SARS-like virus poses medical mystery

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[88m3]

Good, I was getting tired of all the others things that could kill me.

 

[newworldafro]

right on time for World War Z .....



Yeah....its crazy... where is it coming from????

 

[88m3]

right on time for World War Z .....


Yeah....its crazy... where is it coming from????

Do you want the simple answer?

Spoiler

Yahweh

 

[ltheghost]

I'll get worried when that body count starts rising. But in the meanwhile I'm getting my doomsday survival kits ready. I'm not going out by no punk ass virus!! fukk that!

 

[newworldafro]

I'll get worried when that body count starts rising. But in the meanwhile I'm getting my doomsday survival kits ready. I'm not going out by no punk ass virus!! fukk that!

If/When "flu symptoms" and related words/phrases start trending on twitter and google in the middle of the summer ...

 

[Will Ross]

the fact that it made news means that they want to create panic

 

[88m3]

You guys should buy guns because they will protect you.

 

[newworldafro]

the fact that it made news means that they want to create panic

or more publicity and bigger opening weekend for World War Z .....
















sorry.... had to do it...

 

[stealthbomber]

You guys should buy guns because they will protect you.

yeah and increasing the national defense budget. maybe an electric fence on the border, don't want sick mexicans strolling in

 

[FaTaL]

coronavirus

these people must of been fuking animales or something worse

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

WHERE do these viruses come FROM? They just APPEAR out of thin AIR? The WHITE DEVIL expects us TO believe THAT? This virus was GRAFTED just like HIV.

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

and I just watched Utopia

 

[tru_m.a.c]

the fact that it made news means that they want to create panic

not exactly

I've sat on infection meetings before, and trust me, these guys have been tracking this thing silently along with other viruses/bacteria for months/weeks now. In fact, a quick google search PROVES this. This virus was first talked about on cnn back on February 18th:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/health/coronavirus

You don't realize it, but some cases like this appear and disappear without touching any media source. Not like magic, but because we find a way to deal with it.

This virus (I have yet to really read about) obviously cannot be handled through regular procedures.

They had no choice but to say something to the public. This isn't to cause panic. It's to prevent the issues that occured with SARS.

In hindsight, the investigation of the Beijing SARS would have benefited from the use of spot maping as an essential outbreak tool for early identification of specific geographical area(s) for quarantining. If a spot map of incidence density rates was used during the early phase of the outbreak, the inner city might have been identified as a major risk factor requiring rapid quarantining. Contact history became uncommon as the outbreak progressed, suggesting that hospitals were over-burdened or pathogenesis and environment risk factors changed, strengthening the usefulness of early spot mapping and the need to modify risk factors included as contact history as the epidemic progresses.

In early January, health departments in Shunde, Heyuan and Zhongshan all reported the strange pneumonia clusters to Guangdong provincial authorities, who concluded that they were facing a new and highly infectious pneumonia.

It is unclear whether that conclusion was passed on to Beijing; it was not reported to international health agencies.

It would be 31/2 months before China's leaders would admit that their country had an epidemic. During that period, hundreds of health workers fell ill. Unsuspecting doctors were placing SARS patients in ordinary wards, where they were passing the infection on to hundreds of others.

By early February, sick and frightened patients from small cities such as Shunde, Heyuan and Zhongshan were traveling to more advanced hospitals in the provincial capital of Guangzhou -- and that is when the surge of cases really began.

Science is at work here. This stuff has to get you hyped.

The only reason you're scared is cause cnn put in BIG BOLD LETTERS that a new virus is here. Poor journalism. But you've been living pretty good with the fear for months. Don't get all shaky now.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I only urge our coli brethren to stay ahead of the curve. Don't fall into water cooler talk with anyone about this shyt. Just read the info for yourself.

Here are some links I advise anyone interested to take a look at:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/health/world-coronavirus/index.html
This is the second story about the virus tonight. Cnn just cleared up the total # affected and killed. They also took out some damning quotes (most likely misquotes) such as "we do not know where the virus hides in nature."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/health/coronavirus#cnn-disqus-area
Story on the virus posted Feb 19 by cnn. At this point 12 ppl sick. 6 killed. Human to human transmission possible but not likely.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/24/new-sars-like-virus-poses-medical-mystery/
Sept 24, 2012 article by cnn. At this point only 2 people had the virus. Pretty much a background on the who's and how's.

My two personal favorites:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/asfm-nc111612.php

The relatedness between the HCoV-EMC/2012 virus and the virus that infected the patient in the unnamed London hospital is interesting, says Fouchier, since they are similar enough to be the same species but different enough that they are probably not directly linked. "It is unlikely they would be infected from the same source. We really need to understand whether these viruses are coming from a single source or multiple sources" before more cases come to light, he says.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uow-ton042913.php

The new disease agent belongs to the betacoronavirus family, as does the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, SARS. Both viruses attack the lungs. The new virus, however, is more closely related to bat coronaviruses than to SARS. The two viruses latch onto different receptors to infect cells.

Josset, Katze and their team learned that, shortly after human coronavirus-EMC enters lung cells, it, like the SARS virus, induces changes in how the cells' genes are regulated. But the newer virus does so sooner.

Later, and throughout infection, the human coronavirus EMC incites a massive sabotage – much greater than that of the SARS virus – of many genetic controls of protein production in lung cells grown in the laboratory.

"We found that a set of 207 genes in the lung cells was dysregulated early and permanently throughout infection with human coronavirus EMC," Josset said. Various RNA levels were turned up or down.

The new virus appears to specifically hamper the work of several genes that enable the body to sense the presence of viruses. The scientists believe such gene re-tuning by the virus could significantly lower the ability of lung cells to mount an appropriate antiviral reaction.

While SARS and EMC activated a few similar lung cell responses for their own benefit, overall, not much overlap occurred. Each bad actor had its own modus operandi for interfering with lung cell gene activities.