Yeah, if I am not mistaken there is this one doctor who contracted the virus even though he wore mask. Then he remembered he had no safety glasses on.
I read one article. It says it could infect at least millions of people around the world. I hope this is an exaggeration. Frightening indeed!
Correct. The problem with this virus is the incubation period takes at least 3 days to one week before mild symptoms start to manifest. So I am not sure if the immigation at all airports can be able to detect it by use of their thermal equipment even if the infected one has no signs or fever yet.
Exactly.
...really? That's supposed to help? Let's face it, people are selfish and will lie about how they feel if they really want to travel/enter the country. Some may simply not know they are infected due to the incubation period, or simply think they have a cold or something, but common....relying on people to be honest during situations like this would be like trying to use gasoline to put out a fire.
There was one lady who went to France and lied about her condition, and was permitted entry. Then she bragged about it on social media.Exactly.
I was watching the news and "as a safe measure/precaution", they are stopping people and questioning them...
It’s interesting about asking the question “have you traveled out of the country in the last 60 days” because I was asked that question when I got so sick 4 weeks ago. The doctor didn’t even flu swab me because he said he knew it wasn’t the flu because he’d seen 11 patients that day and it was only 10:30 in the morning! We had a mysterious virus sweep through my work place and it slammed us! Symptoms: sore throats, fever, body aches, very nasty cough, headaches, fatigue, diarrhea and some vomiting. I’m still coughing! And mine turned into bronchitis which happened to many of us. Or it turned into laryngitis. Truly I wonder what we all had. This seems widespread here because someone went to the hospital for this virus and he said most everyone in the emergency room wore masks and seemed to have the same symptoms! So it begs the question “have you traveled out of the country in the last 60 days”?I saw a report yesterday that they think it started in bats, spread to snakes, and from snakes to people, via the seafood market in Wuhan, where snakes are sold for meat. (The market has been closed down now.) Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
The scary thing here is that this is not just jumping across species; it's jumping back and forth between warm and cold blooded species. It sounds like a most "successful" virus.
I expect that one of the questions that will come up the next time I visit my doctor is whether I've traveled overseas in the last several months, or know anyone who has - at least, that was standard during the SARS outbreak.
Margret
The thing is, many people still think that a cold is just a small simple little bug. But there are more than 200 hundred different strains of the "cold virus" (including corona virus) and we all know that viruses can mutate at any time. And a cold can be quite severe and can present it'self with fever, chills, fatigue, body aches and stomach issues, which are more commonly associated with the flu.
In 2013 we had my husband's nephew, the nephew's wife, and the wife's 13-year old daughter by a previous marriage staying with us. And the daughter brought something home from school that everyone in the house caught. It lasted for about a month. Like a cold, but worse than any cold I'd ever had. And about the time we finally began getting better there was a report on the news that whooping cough had been going around the local Middle Schools.
Corona virus has a 3 week incubation period so, no fever yet. They can and do spread it. Also, some people don’t run fevers! I get sick but don’t run a fever, all never...
I wouldn't agree with this? Two immediate examples are the Spanish Flu 1918 and Plague in the 1300s. The Plague is thought to have originated in Central / East Asia and travelled to the Crimea and then onward. It killed between 100 and 125 million people. Spanish Flu was world-wide and killed between 20 and 50 million with an estimated 500 million infected.
