CDC in USA estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
A mathematical model from the Hong Kong University's academics predict the number of infections of the Wuhan coronavirus could see 150,000 new cases every day in China between late April and early May. - Coronavirus can affect up to 150,000 people on a daily basis at its peak.- Wuhan seafood market is not where the virus first spread, study finds.- With no cure in sight and the virus outbreak rapidly expanding, markets are reacting with a sharp sell-off.The Coronavirus outbreak doubles every 6.2 days. according to the prestigious Hong Kong University’s medicine dean Gabriel Leung. That figure validates the forecast of top virologists who claim that Coronavirus is ten times worse than SARS.
So I was in NYC on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan a couple of days ago in Kips Bay. So I go to a favoured Chinese restaurant nearby. I walk in lunchtime around 130pm and I'm the only one there except for the help. I mean the only one! It's lunchtime. Always a big crowd. So I ask, "Where is everyone?" The waitress said something cryptic that I didn't understand and pointed to a nearby table to sit down. I thought it strange. But I sat down and chopstixed my way through some sesame chicken, brown rice, broccoli, wonton soup and lots of crispy fried noodles along with a diet Coke. It wasn;t til later that I figure out what was going on. My wife did mention to me not to eat Chinese. I thought she was referring to the fact it's not good for my diabetes.Should I check my temperature?
The total number of confirmed cases in China stands at 20,438 as of Tuesday morning, including a 1-month-old baby in southwestern Guizhou province, an increase of 3,235 on the previous day -- an over 18% jump. The death toll is now at 425 in China, an increase of around 65 from Sunday.On Monday, authorities in Japan quarantined a cruise ship at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, after an elderly male passenger on the vessel was found to be infected with the virus when he disembarked in Hong Kong in late January.Japanese health authorities said around 2,500 passengers and some 1,000 crew members are on board the Diamond Princess, which returned to Yokohama after stops in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Japanese prefectures of Okinawa and Kagoshima. At least seven people on board said they feel ill, though none have been confirmed to have the virus.
In Belgrade, a Chinese woman sneezed on the bus. At the next bus station, only, she, the driver, and a guy with headphones on stayed on the bus
Last time I was on the bus, 80% of the passengers wore the headphones.
The Asian flu always starts every year in Asia? Anyone know why?
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[10][11] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[12] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[13] thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".
