Sunday, May 12, 2013

Coronavirus Pandemic?

Many of you might remember a few years ago the SARS scare:
  1. Severe acute respiratory syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
    Severe acute respiratory syndrome is a viral respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 ...
  2. News for SARS

    1. France confirms 2nd case of SARS-related virus
      CBC.ca ‎- 2 hours ago
      France confirms a second case of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, and increases efforts to inform the public about how to avoid ...
  3. CDC - SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

    www.cdc.gov/sars/
    by SF Sheets
    Complete and official information for the public and health care providers, including information for patients and their close contacts.
     
     
    Well. When a virus of this nature gets out of someplace like China or Mexico or other places where this type of virus tends to get going, it is a little scary for the public around the world until it gets isolated by the CDC's of the world and the World Health Organization which I believe is part of the United Nations. When a SARS like virus last got going I believe they had cases in Europe and Canada and travel restrictions got pretty extreme for coming into the United States on an Airline from any Asian Country(in fact from almost any country for awhile) back then.
     
    So, the only ones I know of outside of China presently from these reports are the ones in France and Saudi Arabia. However, in situations like this for every one case reported there might be 10 unreported cases worldwide, so this is something to think about too.

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