Coronavirus
#166
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,979
Re: Coronavirus
As per BiP, one "disease" can have multiple different causes. For example, meningitis has both bacterial and viral causes, as does pneumonia, and there are several different strains of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, some of which cause symptomless infections - in other words you will have lung nodules visible in an X-ray and have a positive Mantout skin test but have never apparently suffered from tuberculosis,
if it were the same disease it would have the same name
Meningitis and pneumonia are medical terms describing conditions not names of diseases.
#167
#168
Re: Coronavirus
This is nothing like a regular flu bug, or even a "bad flu".
NOtice that Italy had 3 cases last Friday, today it has around 350 cases and 11 people dead.
That is a lot of people dead quite quickly.
I am a little bit more jumpy these days than you all over in Canada because I live in France which is just too close to North Italy ATM.
NOtice that Italy had 3 cases last Friday, today it has around 350 cases and 11 people dead.
That is a lot of people dead quite quickly.
I am a little bit more jumpy these days than you all over in Canada because I live in France which is just too close to North Italy ATM.
Flu outbreak in Italy: Half a million people struck down in a week
Almost three million cases of flu have been reported in Italy since the start of the winter season, and the number of confirmed cases is rising. Since the start of flu season in October 2019, 2,768,000 cases across the country have been confirmed by laboratory tests...A total of 488,000 cases were reported last week alone, signalling that flu season is hitting its peak in January as predicted. ...240 deaths have so far been reported, slightly lower than the expected 258. Most of the fatal cases are elderly patients who suffered complications after contracting the virus.
#169
Re: Coronavirus
Because Italy seems to have the focus in Europe at the moment I looked up flu figures for the country.
Flu outbreak in Italy: Half a million people struck down in a week
Flu outbreak in Italy: Half a million people struck down in a week
..... and so?
It doesn't change the fact that Covid 19 is a respiratory illness and it causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.
It seems evident, according to the WHO that the rate of infection is higher for Covid 19 than for the regular flu.
By the way, flu in europe this year is a beast and here in France regular flu virus was declared to be an epidemic two weeks ago.
Last edited by Nand; Feb 26th 2020 at 5:47 pm. Reason: spelling
#171
Re: Coronavirus
Covid 19 is the name of the disease. Severe Acute Respitory Syndrome is what you get from it hence the name of the little buggers is SARS -Cov-2 because they cause the SARS. It is a respiratory disease not the flu.
This a new coronavirus, and is the second (hence the number 2 after its name) of the SARS coronavirus's.
This a new coronavirus, and is the second (hence the number 2 after its name) of the SARS coronavirus's.
This is nothing like a regular flu bug, or even a "bad flu".
Notice that Italy had 3 cases last Friday, today it has around 350 cases and 11 people dead.
That is a lot of people dead quite quickly.
I am a little bit more jumpy these days than you all over in Canada because I live in France which is just too close to North Italy ATM.
Notice that Italy had 3 cases last Friday, today it has around 350 cases and 11 people dead.
That is a lot of people dead quite quickly.
I am a little bit more jumpy these days than you all over in Canada because I live in France which is just too close to North Italy ATM.
I am in NZ and we have our quake safe emergency stocks and kits as a matter of course. They say it isn't here ...yet...but I rather think otherwise. I am being sensible my end and ensuring we have what we need . I've also cancelled our plans to travel to the UK in Sept. If things settle then we have plenty of time to think again. Meanwhile I shall not commit to the bug soup that is two long haul flights.
#172
Re: Coronavirus
Scouse and I have pretty much decided to go ahead with ours unless something drastic happens (airline cancels flights etc). The only change we're making is telling our family in the UK that we'll rent independent accommodation rather than stay with them. Hand sanitiser in my handbag will be my best friend, if the second best friend is good I'll let him use it too.
#173
Re: Coronavirus
#175
Re: Coronavirus
Hope all goes well.
Agree.
I'm not surprised. You have the right and should be concerned.
I am in NZ and we have our quake safe emergency stocks and kits as a matter of course. They say it isn't here ...yet...but I rather think otherwise. I am being sensible my end and ensuring we have what we need . I've also cancelled our plans to travel to the UK in Sept. If things settle then we have plenty of time to think again. Meanwhile I shall not commit to the bug soup that is two long haul flights.
Agree.
I'm not surprised. You have the right and should be concerned.
I am in NZ and we have our quake safe emergency stocks and kits as a matter of course. They say it isn't here ...yet...but I rather think otherwise. I am being sensible my end and ensuring we have what we need . I've also cancelled our plans to travel to the UK in Sept. If things settle then we have plenty of time to think again. Meanwhile I shall not commit to the bug soup that is two long haul flights.
#177
#180
Re: Coronavirus
That was a real crusher, my roomates were all zonked for two weeks solid, a very strange experience that flu was.