MERS: New SARS-like virus spreading and killing (2 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

The infection rate on this new virus appears to be growing - and the mortality rate is staying around one-half to two-thirds. The Saudis have reported seven new cases and five new deaths.

That brings the totals now to 24 cases and 16 deaths.

WHO Reports Five Dead From Coronavirus In Saudi Arabia - International News - redOrbit

 

[superchuck500]

France now reporting three new suspected cases of the novel coronavirus after a man contracted the disease in a visit to Dubai. It appears that the new cases are medical staff infected by the man. He is now in critical condition.

The virus certainly appears to be capable of person-to-person transmission. And it is still killing at a rate of 50% or greater. The numbers are now 30 (confirmed) cases with 18 deaths. These number are likely low due to lack of diagnosis or under-reporting, particularly from the UAE which was the locale for contracting the disease for two Europeans to date, but the nation has reported no cases of its own despite a significant number of cases from neighboring Saudi Arabia.


3 Suspected Cases of SARS-Related Virus in France - ABC News

 

[Bayouman007]

the world leaders have been planning this for years, we don't have enough resources to survive much longer at the rate we burn this sucker up so they have for years been making you eat what they want you to eat putting certain foods in your bodies making everyone the same and everyones immune system the same unless you knew better, this virus is targetting the weakest part of your immune system. Everyone who thought exercise, organic food and not smoking was the way to live longer... look out.

 

[someone]

My team and I have been tracking this virus for over a year now and the results that we've found are truly astonishing.

 

[saintsfan342000]

Time to panic. I'm keeping my kids home from school until this pandemic passes.

 

[SWJJ]

Undiagnosed non lethal infections could change that mortality rate.

 

[efil4stnias]

My team and I have been tracking this virus for over a year now and the results that we've found are truly astonishing.

lol. troll.....

 

[dajmno]

The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When[

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/opinion/the-next-pandemic-is-closer-than-you-think.html?hp

 

[superchuck500]

Undiagnosed non lethal infections could change that mortality rate.

Indeed. It sounds pretty nasty though, even if you live. There could be some less intense cases out there flying under the radar (in places that are following the WHO protocols released in March) but I don't think it's something that can be presumed at this point.

Earlier estimations of its propensity to spread human-to-human concluded that transmission was very limited, but some of these new cases may suggest greater capability.

The Saudis reported two more cases bringing the number of confirmed cases to 33.

Suspected new coronavirus case in France, Saudis report two more - chicagotribune.com

 

[coldseat]

 

[superchuck500]

Undiagnosed non lethal infections could change that mortality rate.

Here's what it does:

A new virus [called EMC in this article but also called novel coronavirus or NCoV] that causes severe breathing distress and kidney failure elicits a distinctive airway cell response to allow it to multiply. Scientists studying the Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center, which first appeared April 2012 in the Middle East, have discovered helpful details about its stronghold tactics.

. . .

The new disease agent belongs to the betacoronavirus family, as does the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, SARS. Both viruses attack the lungs. The new virus, however, is more closely related to bat coronaviruses than to SARS. The two viruses latch onto different receptors to infect cells.

Josset, Katze and their team learned that, shortly after human coronavirus-EMC enters lung cells, it, like the SARS virus, induces changes in how the cells' genes are regulated. But the newer virus does so sooner.

Later, and throughout infection, the human coronavirus EMC incites a massive sabotage – much greater than that of the SARS virus – of many genetic controls of protein production in lung cells grown in the laboratory.

"We found that a set of 207 genes in the lung cells was dysregulated early and permanently throughout infection with human coronavirus EMC," Josset says. Various RNA levels were turned up or down.

The new virus appears to specifically hamper the work of several genes that enable the body to sense the presence of viruses. The scientists believe such gene re-tuning by the virus could significantly lower the ability of lung cells to mount an appropriate antiviral reaction.

Tactics of Novel Coronavirus Suggest Treatment by Altering Lung Cells Response to Infection

 

[efil4stnias]

Here's what it does:



Tactics of Novel Coronavirus Suggest Treatment by Altering Lung Cells Response to Infection

so not only a lethal virus, but its learning the ability to disarm our own "alarm system"?

in a relatively short amount of time. wow.

 

[superchuck500]

so not only a lethal virus, but its learning the ability to disarm our own "alarm system"?

in a relatively short amount of time. wow.

I think the mortality rate on SARS was about 10%. This one is quite a bit nastier - though the rate of transmission remains seemingly less troublesome than SARS.

 

[efil4stnias]

I think the mortality rate on SARS was about 10%. This one is quite a bit nastier - though the rate of transmission remains seemingly less troublesome than SARS.

as of today.

what does it do tomorrow? next week. If it has already mutated the ability to disarm our bodies alert system, it shouldnt take long to mutate into finding alternate ways of transmission.

But just as with SARS, best prevention is going to be avoidance.

 

[efil4stnias]

Second case of challenging virus reported in France - CNN.com


person who shared room with original French man who had NCoV now has it.