New pandemic-potential flu found in China 😳

[BabyLlamaZen]

BBC News - Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53218704

good God, no, we cannot take another one!

Come one come all 😳

'2020- The Season Finale'
Fuck this shit

I dont know what to think. Except maybe China well everyone should stop eating meat for a bit?

I'm more concerned that it's from China, as they have such an awful rep for covering these things up.

Well at least with this one it’s an actual flu which should mean that vaccinating wouldn’t be as hard a task.

I'm more concerned that it's from China, as they have such an awful rep for covering these things up
That wouldn’t seem to be the case here though.

Fuck this shit

Yep, had enough of this utter bollocks now - 2020 can fuck right off

We do need to stop farming animals intensely - keeping them in cramped conditions to eat cheap meat

We are disgusting as a species. There's no need to eat cheap meat. Good enough diet without it.

I know, @Desiringonlychild and I get that it's very easy to say that. The poverty in China is horrific. It's awful they have such little choice.

@ClaudiaWankleman if that's the whole story.

I don't think people realise that there are people whose job it is to monitor all this ALL THE TIME. There are potential issues constantly. And super volcanoes, and near earth objects, and diseases, and climate issues, and bees dying off and on and on.

And yet you'll probably die of either cancer or heart disease. Which you will ignore the risk of.

Another pandemic is all we fucking need. I keep wishing for 2020 to be over already, but honestly, I'm not that hopeful about 2021 anymore.

Doesn't any virus which can easily be transmitted from human to human have 'pandemic potential'? There must be thousands of them out there. I doubt this is an unusual occurence, but in normal times it probably wouldn't make the news.

if that's the whole story

What details do you think imagine they have covered up @BabyLlamaZen ?

They are taking the fucking piss now

Meh we are already social distancing for corona so in theory this one shouldnt have chance to get going before it dies out

@ThisShitDontMatter My thoughts exactly!

@ThisShitDontMatter

They are taking the fucking piss now

This is hilarious. 'They' who? The Flu Development Team at the CCP? Every person in China? Every poor person in the world who eats cheap meat? Do we also blame the Congolese for Ebola, the Saudis for MERS, Asians for the Black Death?

The country with the largest population will develop the most diseases. Statistics, innit?

Did many PP on this thread actually bother to read the article?

They found evidence of recent infection in people who worked in abattoirs and the swine industry in China when they looked at data from 2011 to 2018.

This isn't new. It's been around at least 2 years already, maybe as many as 9. People have already been infected by it, yet there are no reports of death or serious illness as a result. Alright, it could mutate in future - so could any other disease. Nothing about this story is "news".

I think it’s good to be aware of it so we can prepare and even if it comes to something it won’t get out of hand.

Yes, scare mongering at its best by the BBC here. There are lots of ‘potentially pandemic’ viruses out there in animals. They just don’t usually get reported on. But pandemics are hot news right now. If this one did come to anything, it’ll just be a new strain of Swine Flu that needs adding to the yearly flu vaccine!

The country with the largest population will develop the most diseases. Statistics, innit?

No, that's complete nonsense.

Viruses don't jump to humans because of the number of people resident in a certain country. They do so due to a number of factors, among them density of population, animals and humans living closely together, disruption to the natural habitat, eating habits and much else. So no, it's not 'statistics'.

But @IcedPurple China is an incredibly diverse country in all the ways you describe.

3 diseases emerging amongst about 1/5 of the world’s population isn’t particularly notable, especially when you consider Mad Cow Disease emerging in the UK, which is less than 1% of the world’s population.

@IcedPurple

The country with the largest population will develop the most diseases. Statistics, innit?

No, that's complete nonsense.

Viruses don't jump to humans because of the number of people resident in a certain country. They do so due to a number of factors, among them density of population, animals and humans living closely together, disruption to the natural habitat, eating habits and much else. So no, it's not 'statistics'.

People live in similar ways in central and South America, Africa, the rest of Asia. The sheer size of China's population means there will be more.

People live in similar ways in central and South America, Africa, the rest of Asia. The sheer size of China's population means there will be more

The Chinese fondness for 'exotic' wild animals makes it different from many of the above. And while population size is obviously a factor, your claim that "The country with the largest population will develop the most diseases. Statistics, innit?" is incorrect, because so many factors are at play. The US has the 3rd largest population in the world, but one third of infectious diseases do not originate there. Not close.