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China Reports More Than 200 Infections With New Coronavirus From Wuhan (sciencemag.org) 36

Posted by msmash from the growing-concern dept.
The outbreak of a new virus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan last month appears to be far from over. Today, Chinese health authorities reported that over 130 new pneumonia cases caused by the virus were identified over the weekend, bringing the total in China alone to 201, including three outside Wuhan. From a report: There has also been a third death from the infection, and South Korea now has reported a case as well -- the third country outside China to do so. Meanwhile, the pattern of spread makes it increasingly unlikely that the virus does not transmit between people, some experts say. "Uncertainty and gaps remain, but it's clear that there is some level of person-to-person transmission," Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust in London, said in a statement today. "The sudden spike in cases is disconcerting, but not entirely unexpected," says Adam Kamradt-Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Sydney. As more people learn about the disease, more will go to doctors, Kamradt-Scott says, even with mild symptoms, whereas previously they might have just stayed home. And doctors are now on the lookout for the new disease. "The result is that you see a sudden surge in cases," he says. But âoeif we continue to see this trend continue over the next week where there are 50 to 100 new cases every day, then that would be cause for further concern."
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  • In other news (Score:2, Insightful)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) *

    In New York there have been 200 new flu infections the last 12 minutes.

  • SARS (Score:3, Insightful)

    by 110010001000 ( 697113 ) on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:58PM (#59639142) Homepage Journal

    This reminds me of the SARS epidemic where everyone died.

    • Indeed. 1.5 Billion people, 200 of them have a booboo and cough.

      • Re: (Score:1, Redundant)

        by battingly ( 5065477 )

        Indeed. 1.5 Billion people, 200 of them have a booboo and cough.

        You're right. With public health issues it's much better to wait until the outbreak becomes widespread before doing anything about it.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by banon ( 6544946 )
          Yes, please.... define "widespread"? what would be a better "number" defining widespread?? How about 200,000? Even that is insignificant given their current population. Just filling up news time IMHO.

  • It is the same family of viruses as the common cold, SARS (2002-2004), and the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, originated from camels).

    These are the basic facts about the coronavirus outbreak [www.cbc.ca] in China, where it originated, what are the symptoms, ...etc.

  • WURS (Score:4, Funny)

    by blastard ( 816262 ) on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:48PM (#59639594)

    Wuhan Upper Respiratory Syndrome.

    Think you have the flu?

    It could be WURS.

  • Could this be a manufactured virus for either use as a bio-weapon that somehow got out, or maybe not as bio weapon but a synthetic strain for research got out, or from China's reputation maybe a population control solution? /sarcasm of course... Product of overactive imagination thinking it'd make a good book or b movie. hehe

    • population control solution?

      Has Xi Jinping recently acquired a gauntlet of some kind?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      China's pop. has been dropping for years, they aren't likely to encourage its fall as that would mean less economic power. The world is full of viruses, and some of them do jump to humans from animals. A real conspiracy theory would that the CCP is caused by a virus that jumped from an animal like Mao to the general pop.

  • Double negatives (Score:4, Insightful)

    by fintux ( 798480 ) on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:27AM (#59640102)

    [--] makes it increasingly unlikely that the virus does not transmit between people

    I find it highly unlikely that using double negatives is not a bad thing. It doesn't make the text not less easy to understand, it isn't not on the contrary! I don't propose that we shouldn't not take it to the next level and not leave triple or higher-order negatives not unused (okay now I didn't not lose track of my own levels of negatives).

    So yeah, why not just write "[--] makes it increasingly likely that the virus transmits between people"?

    • I would mod you up if I could because I think you make a really good point. As a native English speaker, I do often find myself saying or writing things in that "double negative" kind of way. I've studied other languages and it has made me really wonder that it's probably better to just say things directly as you suggest ("makes it increasingly likely that the virus transmits between people") than to do so in a double negative way. I guess we must be subjected to a large amount of double negative use in

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by fintux ( 798480 )
        I actually remember this being taught at school (as a non-native speaker) that in English things are often expressed indirectly. At some times it can be polite as it can have a softer tone ("it wasn't too good" instead of saying "it was pretty bad", for example), which I think is fine. But at other times it makes getting the message through harder, especially if it causes ending up with a double negative.
  • I'm just relieved that my office uses V-Ray. Sorry, that was the best I could do.

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