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Is This a Pandemic Being Born?
By EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 9:50am |Here's how it would happen. Children playing along an urban river bank would spot hundreds of grotesque, bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, angry citizens would protest the rising stench from piles of dead ducks and swans, their rotting bodies collecting by the thousands along river banks. And three unrelated individuals would stagger into three different hospitals, gasping for air. Two would quickly die of severe pneumonia and the third would lay in critical condition in an intensive care unit for many days. Government officials would announce that a previously unknown virus had sickened three people, at least, and killed two of them. And while the world was left to wonder how the pigs, ducks, swans, and people might be connected, the World Health Organization would release deliberately terse statements, offering little insight.
It reads like a movie plot -- I should know, as I was a consultant for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. But the facts delineated are all true, and have transpired over the last six weeks in China. The events could, indeed, be unrelated, and the new virus, a form of influenza denoted as H7N9, may have already run its course, infecting just three people and killing two.
Or this could be how pandemics begin.
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/01/is_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus?page=full
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4 more cases reported, critical condition.
by NCD on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 5:15pm
WOW!
by Richard Day on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 8:21pm
Chinese gov: pay no attention to the 15 thousand dead pigs floating down the river, no connection.
by NCD on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 12:12am
4 people dead in China - must panic.
by Anonymous PP (not verified) on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 12:31am
"As far as any scientists know, the H7N9 forms of flu have never previously managed to infect human beings, or any mammals" from the link. Oh and, I only panic over the drones.
by NCD on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 10:28am
Bully for them, they've now been successful 4 times.
But look over there! A drone! Duck!e, t
Note, the 15,000 dead pigs do seem to be completely unrelated.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 2:39pm
This new virus is a mixture of parts from three different bird flu viruses according to early reports. It shows features that has the potential of adapting to humans. This is why there is concern world wide. A virus only has 8 genes. To understand its make up, just picture a ball covered with spikes. In side that ball is 6 genes and out side the spikes are the proteins H (haemagglutinin) and N (neuraminidase) are the other 2. The bird flu is classified by the type of receipters the H and N has. New viruses appear in the wild because these parts get shuffled like cards. This new virus, H7N9, 6 proteins in the center is from a bird virus that is found in China and Korea (H9N2). The H7 protein is from Euroasia avian flu and the N9 is from avian flu H11N9 that is in South Korea and Jiangsu, China since 2010. The victims of this new H7N9 avian flu are from Jiangsu area. The H7 effecting mammals is new and has world health organizations worried because humans don't have any natural immunity to it built up in our systems. There is also no vaccine developed for it. The H protein is what attaches it self to human airways. This new virus is latching on to lung cells so it is not easily spread by sneezing like the common flu H1N1. Right now there is no data that shows it is spreading from human to human contact but that could change. The other factor that is a worry, is all the pigs and domestic fowl that has died in Jiangsu area. Avian flu usually makes it's jump to humans through domestic fowl and pigs. Also China likes to pretend as long as it can that nothing is wrong like it did a few years ago with the H5N1 flu out break. That was the first time for humans to get H5.
by trkingmomoe on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 4:26am