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    Default New deadly virus can become an epidemic

    I was reading this earlier
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...ke-spread.html
    There have been 13 reported cases of people who have this Coronavirus in Europe/UK.
    Out of those 13 people, 6 or 7 have already died.

    Scientists are comparing this to the SARS outbreak back in 2002 which killed about 800 people.

    Hopefully this gets tackled down, and more word and news reports are done on the progress to stop this from spreading.

    A deadly respiratory virus in the Middle East and U.K. is being monitored to see if it may evolve into a superbug like the 2002 SARS outbreak that killed almost 800 people, health officials said.

    A novel coronavirus has infected 13 people, killing seven, Gwen Stephens, with the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, said at an American Society for Microbiology biodefense conference in Washington today. The World Health Organization is trying to confirm reports of two additional cases, she said.

    Health officials have seen individual cases and infections in family clusters as well as two probable cases of human-to- human transmission that could accelerate the spread of the pathogen. The earliest known are two hospital workers in Jordan who died in April and weren’t found to have the coronavirus until samples were tested in November.

    “Are we looking at the tip of the iceberg, or are we making mountains out of molehills?” Alison Bermingham, with the U.K.’s Health Protection Agency, said at the conference.

    Coronaviruses are a family of pathogens that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, which sickened more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in 2002 and 2003, according to the WHO. While the new virus is related to the one that causes SARS, it appears far less transmissible, the WHO said.

    SARS at first was sporadic, and once officials figured out what it was, it had spread to Hong Kong and Hanoi then to Toronto, Singapore, the U.S. and Thailand, Stephens said.
    “There was no stopping it,” she said.


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    Coronavirus may have the potential to spread more widely, but not without acquiring multiple genetic changes, Ian Jones, a professor of virology at the University of Reading in England, said last week.

    The origin of the novel coronavirus hasn’t been identified, though one suggestion is bats, according to the WHO’s website. Most of those infected live in or traveled to the Middle East or Pakistan. The U.K. is investigating a family of three people with coronavirus, the first who traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and two who had no travel history.

    Stephens said today that men are becoming infected more than women, noting that in a family of three men who contracted the coronavirus, none of the wives who cared for them or their children became ill. Two women were infected as of Feb. 20.

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    Oh noo, Mod Mark is going to get sick.. Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silentcore View Post
    Oh noo, Mod Mark is going to get sick.. Lol
    Lol,I chuckled
    But seriously, its something we should give more attention to

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    Quote Originally Posted by Four View Post
    Lol,I chuckled
    But seriously, its something we should give more attention to
    Yeah I know this is terrible but the first thing I always think when I see U.K. is on Jagex and Mod Mark. Lol. Hopefully they nuke this virus before it's too late.

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    I heard about that a few weeks ago :/ i hope it doesnt come to the states, will my illness already i cant afford to get anything like that...Would make me seriously ill

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    Quote Originally Posted by Four View Post
    I was reading this earlier
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...ke-spread.html
    There have been 13 reported cases of people who have this Coronavirus in Europe/UK.
    Out of those 13 people, 6 or 7 have already died.

    Scientists are comparing this to the SARS outbreak back in 2002 which killed about 800 people.

    Hopefully this gets tackled down, and more word and news reports are done on the progress to stop this from spreading.
    Heyy Jake, I like your news here, but where d'you get your news from? D'you have a tracker? Or d'you manually search for them. Cuz I really really like the news that you report :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by guthixboss1 View Post
    Heyy Jake, I like your news here, but where d'you get your news from? D'you have a tracker? Or d'you manually search for them. Cuz I really really like the news that you report :P
    Yeah I frequently check the news on these sites.
    http://www.cnn.com/
    http://www.news.google.com/
    http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
    http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned
    http://www.nytimes.com

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    7 deaths out of 13 infections is meaningless in terms of microorganisms. I don't think this is anything to be worried about. I'm not really in the mood for another swine flu scare.

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    These are probably the result of experimentation use as bioweapons. That somehow got loose... "somehow"...

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    Lol. When I first clicked this I though it was about a computer virus.

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    Bermingham... Are you kidding me? A News site wrong Bermingham...

    End it now

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    You should really get your own section here and just add updates for random things. Or the rank or SRL news reporter

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    By the way, the co-founder of reddit recently commited suicide after a case of breaking the CFAA that was complete bull, and a disgrace to the United States. Search for the rules of the CFAA. Any U.S. citizen can now be a felon and in prison at our government's discretion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neznam View Post
    These are probably the result of experimentation use as bioweapons. That somehow got loose... "somehow"...
    It's nature trying to depopulate a kind nothing weird about it.... Happens all the time.

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