SARS like virus discovered in UK

[Kizzy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/13/sars-like-coronavirus-spreads-relative

''On Monday, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said one person who had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan was being treated in an intensive care unit at a Manchester hospital after becoming infected with a new type of coronavirus''
The latest case brings the number of confirmed cases across the world to 11, three of which were diagnosed in the UK, the HPA said.


:eek:

''Coronaviruses cause most common colds but can also cause Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In 2003, hundreds of people died after a Sars outbreak in Asia''

[Kizzy]

Remember when MERS was a thing?... Look how concerned we were :/

[arista]

[On Monday, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said one person
who had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan
was being treated in an intensive care unit at a Manchester hospital
after becoming infected with a new type of coronavirus.]

So its from the Middle East/Pakistan

[Shaun]

this article is from February 2013.

[Kizzy]

this article is from February 2013.

The post is from 2013.

[Shaun]

And it has pretty much nothing to do with what the title suggests...

[arista]

And it has pretty much nothing to do with what the title suggests...


Maybe 2013 should be in the Title

[Toy Soldier]

Don't worry Kizzy, I see what you're getting at despite all of these whooshes.

GUYS the point is that when MERS came to the UK in 2013 no one even replied to the thread, and now we have like 500 Covid-19 threads with 3 billion replies.

[Nicky91]

Don't worry Kizzy, I see what you're getting at despite all of these whooshes.

GUYS the point is that when MERS came to the UK in 2013 no one even replied to the thread, and now we have like 500 Covid-19 threads with 3 billion replies.

MERS wasn't as deadly as Covid-19

[Kizzy]

And it has pretty much nothing to do with what the title suggests...

What are you talking about? I was just looking through old threads I posted and found this on the cases of what we now know as MERS. And how unconcerned we were on the forum about it.

[Kizzy]

Don't worry Kizzy, I see what you're getting at despite all of these whooshes.

GUYS the point is that when MERS came to the UK in 2013 no one even replied to the thread, and now we have like 500 Covid-19 threads with 3 billion replies.

Well explained man.

[Toy Soldier]

MERS wasn't as deadly as Covid-19

MERS has a case fatality rate of 35% (over 1/3 of all recorded cases) and is, thus, far more deadly than Covid-19 and 3.5x more deadly than oldschool SARS.

It just isn't very contagious so not many people have had it, and when it crops up it's easily contained.

[Toy Soldier]

Well explained man.

They will listen to me because I have a deep, booming voice like a comforting blanket to protect them from your shrill, needly tones.

[Kizzy]

They will listen to me because I have a deep, booming voice like a comforting blanket to protect them from your shrill, needly tones.

See?.. you scared them off now! Why can I never have nice things? :bawling:

[bots]

you got your thread in 7 years before anyone else took notice. That's an achievement. TS simply wants to jump on the back of your success. When he isn't using his voice altering software, he squeaks like a mouse

[Kizzy]

Yes I agree I posted this thread 5 months before he joined the forum ...I bet that will be mouse boys excuse for not contributing :idc:

[Toy Soldier]

Yes I agree I posted this thread 5 months before he joined the forum ...

I was fresh out the cloning vats! I probably hadn't even learned to control my sphincter, let alone my vast intellect.

[Cherie]

They will listen to me because I have a deep, booming voice like a comforting blanket to protect them from your shrill, needly tones.

:joker:

[Cherie]

you got your thread in 7 years before anyone else took notice. That's an achievement. TS simply wants to jump on the back of your success. When he isn't using his voice altering software, he squeaks like a mouse

:joker: