As of December 2019, 2,468 cases of MERS-CoV infection had been confirmed by laboratory tests, 851 of which were fatal, a mortality rate of approximately 34.5%.[28]
We musta seen the same meme because I did the same thing last night.i saw some meme about a plague in 1720......1820.......1920
and this thing having a 34% mortality rate
I was like yeah fucking right.......that's like smallpox and black plague while snorting anthrax (untreated) bad fucking news kind of outbreak stuff.
that's got to be sensationalized and fake news
Coronavirus - Wikipedia
Ughhhhhhhh wtf........wtf
well that has to be a bogus entry. that happens on wiki all the time.
WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
oh my shit.....
yeah that isn't good at all
Novel Coronavirus 2019
luckily this novel-cov putting up much lower mortality numbers so far because of slower incubation time.
lets hope this sars-cov is completely dif strain and rapidly mutates into something less dangerous because this thing is going global asap
[...]
- The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates said on Friday at a discussion of epidemics.
- We're not ready.
- An illness like the pandemic 1918 influenza could kill 30 million people within six months, Gates said, adding that the next disease might not even be a flu, but something we've never seen.
- The world should prepare as it does for war, Gates said.
Gates presented a simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling that found that a new flu like the one that killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic would now most likely kill 30 million people within six months.
And the disease that next takes us by surprise is likely to be one we see for the first time at the start of an outbreak, like what happened recently with SARS and MERS viruses.
[...]
The one time the military tried a sort of simulated war game against a smallpox pandemic, the final score was "smallpox one, humanity zero," Gates said.
But he reiterated that he's an optimist, saying he thinks we could better prepare for the next viral or bacterial threat.
[...]
Melinda Gates recently said that the threat of a global pandemic, whether it emerges naturally or is engineered, was perhaps the biggest risk to humanity.
"Think of the number of people who leave New York City every day and go all over the world — we're an interconnected world," she said.
Those connections make us all vulnerable.
SHANGHAI: The food market where China's deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.
The Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan came under greater scrutiny on Wednesday (Jan 22) as Chinese officials said that the virus which has so far killed 17 people and infected hundreds may have originated in a wild animal sold at the food emporium.
Past deadly epidemics have been blamed on wild animals - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was linked to Chinese consumption of civet meat - setting Chinese authorities up for potential embarrassment if lax supervision of wildlife trafficking is found at fault in the latest outbreak.
A price list circulating on China's Internet for a business at the Wuhan market lists a menagerie of animals or animal-based products including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, camel meat and other game - 112 items in all.
"Freshly slaughtered, frozen and delivered to your door," said the price list for the vendor, "Wild Game Animal Husbandry for the Masses".
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese centre for disease control and prevention, said in Beijing on Wednesday that authorities believe the virus likely came from "wild animals at the seafood market" though the exact source remains undetermined.
China bans the trafficking of a number of wild species or requires special licenses, but regulations are loose for some species if they are commercially farmed.
AFP was unable to directly confirm the authenticity of the price list. Phone calls to the vendor went unanswered, and attempts to connect to its social media accounts were rejected.
The Beijing News published a photo on Tuesday showing the same vendor's now-shuttered store front, as authorities in white hazmat suits milled about.
Zero Hedge questioned whether the lab in Wuhan may be “China’s version of Umbrella Corp,” a reference to the pharmaceutical company in the Resident Evil universe which secretly developed bio-weapons.