H7N9 TEOTWAWKI is at hand

What set the bells off in my head was that it's been silant out of China while this is going on and they have started doing drastic measures to stop the spread.

They are basically shutting down the bird trade in China, that is extrema.

[link to news.xinhuanet.com]

I have even heard the rumor of travel restrictions incoming.

Last Edited by Cheswolf on 04/06/2013 11:13 PM

Shanghai is starting to shut down the bird trade as well. It's odd that they are talking about "spooking the markets".

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

Revised numbers****

Cases 18
Deaths 6

As of last night, China had confirmed 18 H7N9 cases - eight in Shanghai, six in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and one in Anhui Province - in the first known human infections of the lesser-known strain. Of these, four of those diagnosed in Shanghai and two in Zhejiang have died.

[link to crofsblogs.typepad.com]

New bird flu said to have hallmarks of airborne killer
The new bird influenza that’s killed six people in eastern China has some of the genetic hallmarks of an easily transmissible virus, according to the scientist who showed how H5N1 avian flu could become airborne.

The H7N9 strain, which is a new virus formed as a result of two others merging their genetic material, has features of viruses that are known to jump easily from birds to mammals, and a mutation that may help it attach to cells in the respiratory tract, said Ron Fouchier, a professor of molecular virology at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, in a telephone interview Friday.

“That’s certainly not good news,” said Fouchier, who reviewed a gene sequencing of H7N9 published by Chinese health authorities. “This virus really doesn’t look like a bird virus anymore; it looks like a mammalian virus.”
[link to www.vancouversun.com]

Adding info as I find it

Cases-18
critical condition-4
Deaths-6

Even Forbes is reporting on this.

[link to www.forbes.com]

This from that article shows how deep people are worried about this. h5n1 never touched the markets.

"The outbreak caused soybean futures and airline stocks to fall yesterday on concern the virus may spark a pandemic.

China is a polluted sesssssssss pool.

One million pigs just died there in the last few weeks. Pigs by the thousands were in the water around Shanghai.

Jeeezeeee wonder why all of a sudden now they have birds sick getting people sick. Maybe eating pigs and all that back and forth with that foul fucking water.

That whole place is over with enviromentally.

You can't produce all the worlds trash without getting trashed especially when you don't give a flying fuck about anything.

[link to globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com]

Interesting read

Have they said what killed the pigs? Is this related?

[link to www.bostonglobe.com]

probably, read this:
[link to www.foreignpolicy.com]

wow, what might be the scariest phrase I have seem Doom wise in years.....

"Hong Kong's government said it could not rule out the possibility of an outbreak in the city."

What the hell is going on?

[link to www.scmp.com]

They are gearing up, same cite as above.

The Hong Kong government said precautions were in place to cope with an outbreak.

Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man said yesterday: "We have to be prepared that H7N9, no matter if it's in poultry or humans, may appear in Hong Kong. The possibility can't be excluded."

Ko said the Hospital Authority could handle a reasonably large- scale outbreak and had 1,400 isolation beds available - in line with the government's strategy to identify and isolate suspected sufferers early.

Beijing also on heightened alert:

[link to www.flutrackers.com]

Still only 18 confirmed cases.....

Laws yes!

The Shanghai government said in a statement on its website on Sunday that it had grounded nearly two million carrier pigeons and banned all races.
[link to gulftoday.ae]

shit just got real folks!

^^^THIS^^^

Some folks are saying that it might be much more widespread then what is being reported. Those who are in the hospitals are only showing "weak" positive as they are dieing apparently. So I have to wonder if healthy carriers would test at all if they are shedding the virus.

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

HONG Kong stocks have tumbled 2.73 per cent, with airlines the hardest hit, following an outbreak of bird flu in mainland China which has killed six people.

[link to www.theaustralian.com.au]

Hong Kong testing dead birds for virus

Link to follow

For University of Minnesota infectious disease expert, Michael Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Infections Disease and Policy (CIDRAP), the most concerning aspect of this outbreak is the lack of symptoms in the infected birds.

“Asymptomatic birds means we have no warning signs and no idea where the infected birds are located,” Osterholm explained. “The only way to know if a bird is infected is to test the animal. That’s what makes this different.”

I knew they'd keep playing with it until they perfected human to human transmittal. Congrats to the scumbag scientist...I hope they get their own virus...and suffer most of all.

Last Edited by salty1 on 04/07/2013 12:22 AM

“That’s certainly not good news,” said Fouchier, who reviewed a gene sequencing of H7N9 published by Chinese health authorities. “This virus really doesn’t look like a bird virus anymore; it looks like a mammalian virus.” Bloomberg News

[link to www.tekjournalismuk.com]

Only one source at present: Radio Television Hong Kong

[link to rthk.hk]

Am I a horrible person to say I am freaking sick of China!?

The poster above is right - it's a cess pool.

Shitty and dangerous products, environmental rape, freaky diseases.

WTF China!?

Nasty place.

Well, credit where credit's due. T.H.E.Y. must have been real busy since the initial Bird Flu Variant scare to generate something 'as lethal' if not more so...

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H7N9 (not to scale).

You know, REAL BUSY.