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#76 Post by chaos » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:07 am

Just taking a break from the pandemic coverage to unwind with some thoughts on the looming apocalypse. :hide:

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#77 Post by chaos » Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:59 am

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New swine flu found in China has pandemic potential
AFP June 30, 2020, 4:36 AM EDT


Washington (AFP) - Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS.

Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.

It possesses "all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans," say the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

From 2011 to 2018, researchers took 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses in 10 Chinese provinces and in a veterinary hospital, allowing them to isolate 179 swine flu viruses.

The majority were of a new kind which has been dominant among pigs since 2016.

The researchers then carried out various experiments including on ferrets, which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar symptoms to humans -- principally fever, coughing and sneezing.

G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses.

Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.

According to blood tests which showed up antibodies created by exposure to the virus, 10.4 percent of swine workers had already been infected.

The tests showed that as many as 4.4 percent of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.

The virus has therefore already passed from animals to humans but there is no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human -- the scientists' main worry.

"It is of concern that human infection of G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic," the researchers wrote.

Asked about the virus on Tuesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press briefing that China "has been paying close attention to its development" and will take all needed action to prevent its spread and any outbreaks.

The study's authors called for urgent measures to monitor people working with pigs.

"The work comes as a salutary reminder that we are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals, with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife, may act as the source for important pandemic viruses," said James Wood, head of the department of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University.

A zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that has jumped from a non-human animal into a human.

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#78 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:31 am

So we should call this next pandemic the "Don't Blame China Part 2 Death Flu?"

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#79 Post by chaos » Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:11 am

I have to admit, bunny ebola was not on my 2020 bingo card. :drink:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-rabbi ... 01686.html

Deadly rabbit virus nicknamed 'bunny ebola' spreading rapidly across southern US
Rozina Sabur
The Telegraph July 3, 2020, 12:46 PM EDT

A deadly rabbit virus nicknamed "bunny ebola" is spreading across the southwest US, killing thousands of wild and pet rabbits.

Outbreaks of the rare and highly contagious virus have been reported in seven states across America's Sun Belt, including Arizona, California and Texas.

The disease, RHDV2, has been referred to as "bunny ebola" by veterinarians because it replicates the severe bleeding and organ failure the ebola virus causes in humans.

In many cases the virus is only detected after an animal dies and its nose leaks blood.

The US Department of Agriculture confirmed cases of the RHDV2 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas beginning in April.

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Officials fear this outbreak will be difficult to contain - Neil Mcintyre

It is the fourth time the deadly virus has been found in the US since the first case of RHDV2 was first detected in China around 35 years ago.

However this outbreak represents the first time the virus is known to have spread beyond pet rabbits to wild rabbits, hares and even pikas in North America, prompting concern over how officials can effectively contain it.

"The fact that this is in multiple counties and rabbitries, that's why this is so concerning," Eric Stewart, from the American Rabbit Breeders Association, told the Veterinary Information Network.

"And then to hear it's burning through the wild rabbit populations, that, of course, furthers our concerns that much more."

The first known US case of the virus was among pet rabbits in Ohio in 2018. A second outbreak appeared in the San Juan Islands in Washington state last summer and in February, it was identified in a dozen rabbits at a veterinary hospital in New York City.

Officials are unsure of the source of this latest outbreak. "We still have no idea where it originated," Ralph Zimmerman, New Mexico's state veterinarian, told the Cut. "It's snowballed and moved like mad."

"We had one guy with 200 rabbits, and he lost them all between a Friday afternoon and Sunday evening," he said. "It just went through and killed everything."

Around 500 animals are thought to have been infected in the state in the last four months, prompting officials to introduce a depopulation policy.

But officials fear the highly contagious nature of the virus will make this outbreak difficult to bring under control.

The virus spreads easily through blood, urine, and faeces and its incubation period can be as little as two days. It has a very high death rate, with officials in the southwest US estimating the virus has proven fatal in around 90 per cent of infected animals.

The small numbers of rabbits that do survive continue to pose a threat as they can continue to spread the virus for at least 42 days, according to the House Rabbit Association.

The virus does not pose a threat to humans but can be transferred to rabbits by hair, shoes and clothing. There is no known cure of the virus and veterinarians in the US have to go through a lengthy process with the USDA to import vaccines from Europe.

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#80 Post by chaos » Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:57 am


Beirut blast: Explosion rocks city injuring many

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#82 Post by Pandemonium » Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:29 pm

That was no fireworks factory explosion. Officials have already revised the story and now say the building was storing "highly explosive materials” seized by the government years ago. Warehoused in the heart of the city near the country's busiest port, no less. IMO, this was some sort of chemical materials explosion. Some of the clips, it looks almost like a small nuclear bomb went off.



This is a comparable (night time) explosion in China in a building illegally storing dangerous chemicals in a populated urban area from 2015 that is equally jaw-dropping. The person who shot the very first clip in this video compilation (the first 15 seconds) was actually live streaming the fire several blocks away. When the building exploded, he was literally vaporized in the blast, his body and phone/camera were never recovered.


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#83 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:46 am

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#84 Post by mockbee » Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:00 am

Just glad it doesn't appear to be terrorist activity.



I really want to go to Lebanon/Beirut.

Was researching details before COVID hit..... :wavesad:

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#85 Post by Larry B. » Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:38 am

Absolutely brutal. If I'd been there watching that, I'd have thought it was a nuclear blast. That "shape" of the explosion and the expanding wave are drilled into my brain as "nuclear blast".

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#86 Post by mockbee » Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:08 am






https://twitter.com/i/status/1291037496919261185


holy shit. I knew it was coming and that was still terrifying............... :scared:

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#87 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:11 am

Here's a handful of video clips, some pretty close to the blast. Interesting observation - for a city that's ravaged by CoronaVirus, virtually no one wears a mask.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... 297518001/

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#88 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:20 am

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#89 Post by Krink » Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:42 pm

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#90 Post by clickie » Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:05 am

What was once considered bad shit has now become the norm

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#91 Post by Hokahey » Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:56 pm

Krink wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:42 pm
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This is some real boomer humor.

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#92 Post by LongCovid » Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:15 pm

clickie wrote:
Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:05 am
What was once considered bad shit has now become the norm
The decline is real. It will be interesting to see how those who pushed and complained when things were good, how they handle this 'utopia'. :tiphat:

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#93 Post by clickie » Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:44 am

LongCovid wrote:
Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:15 pm
clickie wrote:
Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:05 am
What was once considered bad shit has now become the norm
The decline is real. It will be interesting to see how those who pushed and complained when things were good, how they handle this 'utopia'. :tiphat:
Well hey as far as Chicago goes, Lori Lightfoot was recently told to get to steppin. That's a path towards the right direction.

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