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Dust.
Retroviruses use both RNA and DNA in replication.You missed HIV.
Retroviruses use both RNA and DNA in replication.You missed HIV.
Retroviruses use both RNA and DNA in replication.
Rail travel from HK to the mainland has been suspended so that’s the end of my Guangdong trip
Rail travel from HK to the mainland has been suspended so that’s the end of my Guangdong trip
I wouldn't worry. It'll probably come to you before you get to it; it seems that there are increasing numbers of asymptomatic cases and quite possibly will just end up circulating in the general population like flu, the common cold, etc.I’m trying to decide whether to book a trip to Amsterdam in mid Feb, but with the way this thing is developing I wonder if it might be wiser not to travel through intl airports, foreign hotels, etc if I don’t have to.
How long till they get a working vaccine distributed out and widely available I wonder? Not much chance of that before mid Feb.
They haven't stopped flights or buses to Guangdong.
I wouldn't worry. It'll probably come to you before you get to it; it seems that there are increasing numbers of asymptomatic cases and quite possibly will just end up circulating in the general population like flu, the common cold, etc.
If you fly from the UK, the arrivals area at Schiphol is pretty distant from the gates used by 'proper' international travellers like the US and China. (Also worth bearing in mind there's a huge conference in Amsterdam the week of the 10th, so you might have trouble finding a reasonably priced hotel mid-week.)I’m trying to decide whether to book a trip to Amsterdam in mid Feb, but with the way this thing is developing I wonder if it might be wiser not to travel through intl airports, foreign hotels, etc if I don’t have to.
the German cases had attended a work-based training event also attended by a woman who only became ill two days later during her return to China two days later. The German case is most worrying because if the Chinese woman was indeed asymptomatic at the time of the training session it would confirm reports of spread before symptoms develop making standard control strategies less effective.
Some dont think it has changed hardly at all since it first appeared in humans. This gets all mixed in with stuff I've mentioned before about the media stories of mutation-related risks having taken on something of a life of their own. Quite reasonable concepts from the past, with simple tales of 'more deadly and less spreadable' evolving into 'less deadly but more spreadable' probably do a disservice to the realities, or at least its not so straightforward in every disease outbreak and evolution.
Dunno really though, we need people to analyse a lot more samples genetic sequences to see if there are still hardly any changes happening.
Personally, in the meantime, I tend to imagine the virus already had its current characteristics at an early stae of the outbreak, ie it may have had this spread potential since the very first case (or close to it). I cant tell though, but certainly I dont take language from authorities about the virus changing and becomign more likely to infecct the young at face value. It might be that the virus has not changed recently, and its just our understanding of its thats evolving.
This shows that there is limited genetic variation in the currently sampled viruses but more recent ones are showing more divergence as is expected for fast evolving RNA viruses. But the lack of diversity is indicative of a relatively recent common ancestor for all these viruses.
Did anyone else get this strange question when the authorities were saying that the disease had passed the species boundary, well there was the sort of implied question what exactly were they doing with those animals?
I work installing IT systems in Airports at the moment but if this things carries on , I'l be seriously looking for another job ( Although I'm just about to hear about a job I've gone for which may make my decision simpler )I’m trying to decide whether to book a trip to Amsterdam in mid Feb, but with the way this thing is developing I wonder if it might be wiser not to travel through intl airports, foreign hotels, etc if I don’t have to.
How long till they get a working vaccine distributed out and widely available I wonder? Not much chance of that before mid Feb.
If you fly from the UK, the arrivals area at Schiphol is pretty distant from the gates used by 'proper' international travellers like the US and China. (Also worth bearing in mind there's a huge conference in Amsterdam the week of the 10th, so you might have trouble finding a reasonably priced hotel mid-week.)
Read somewhere that it was people eating bat soup that caused this virus
We all make our own compromises, I have one car, you have two shedsyes indeed i don't have a car so pretty well all I buy is across the web.
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Read somewhere that it was people eating bat soup that caused this virus
You hang out in all the best places don't you?
Don’t Blame Bat Soup for the Coronavirus
Racist memes target Chinese eating habits, but the real causes of the virus are more mundane.foreignpolicy.com
"As news of the Wuhan virus spread online, one video became emblematic of its claimed origin: It showed a young Chinese woman, supposedly in Wuhan, biting into a virtually whole bat as she held the creature up with chopsticks. Media outlets from the Daily Mail to RT promoted the video, as did a number of prominent extremist bloggers such as Paul Joseph Watson. Thousands of Twitter users blamed supposedly “dirty” Chinese eating habits—in particular the consumption of wildlife—for the outbreak, said to have begun at a so-called wet market that sold animals in Wuhan, China."
Sure I saw it on the BBC, maybe I misread the headline.
BBC has a story debunking it so you may wish to read more closely if it was the beeb.