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Doomsday: No One Knows When The Next Plague Will Come, Only That It Will…
Doomsday: No One Knows When The Next Plague Will Come, Only That It Will…
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According to a recently published report, the report states The first confirmed victim was a Vietnamese butcher in Láo Cai. He collapsed suddenly while chopping up pork ribs in his outdoor stall, and died within hours.
Family members said he had been feeling ill for several days,had been coughing constantly for two, but insisted on working. It was a point of pride with him, they said. After several days, they too were stricken, and most died. Then people who had bought meat from the butcher sickened and expired. Then their neighbors succumbed. Then people across the river, down the road, over the next mountain.
The epidemic raged through Láo Cai, and also the neighboring towns of Cao Bang and Thái Nguyên. Before any effective containment strategy could be devised, it had spread to Nanning and Kunming in China, and then it reached Macao—and finally, Hong Kong. And from there, it literally took flight around the world. Within weeks, people were coughing, collapsing, and dying in San Francisco, Sydney, London, and São Paolo.
Virologists and microbiologists analyzed the responsible pathogen and found it was a coronavirus, kin to the SARS microbe that briefly induced global panic before it was contained in 2003. But this coronavirus contained RNA from Influenza C, a virus that infects pigs as well as humans. This new hybrid bug had probably originated on a small farm, incubating in both the farmer and his swine. When the pigs went to market, the new coronavirus was poised to make its debut.
It was stunningly virulent. The “Spanish flu” epidemic of 1918 had a 2 percent direct mortality rate (though many more died from secondary bacterial pneumonia). The 2003 SARS outbreak had a general mortality rate of more than 10 percent, climbing to 50 percent in people middle-aged or older. But this new pathogen had a general mortality rate of 31 percent, hitting 67 percent in people 60 years or older. Normally, virulence works against the rapid spread of a virus; people who are violently ill generally aren’t effective at disease transmission, because they quickly become too sick to walk around and shed microbes in public venues. But this coronavirus had a long incubation period. Many people harbored “subclinical” infections for days or even weeks; they were highly infectious and ambulatory prior to developing full-blown, incapacitating symptoms. In short, the disease was widely dispersed before anyone recognized its existence.
Read More Here http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2014-apocalypse/doomsday-2-no-one-knows-when-next-plague-will-come-only
