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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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    #62
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    Apparently some quarters are putting it down to the eating of bat soup.jesus is there anything they won't eat over there.

    What do you think hot wings are made off?


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    #63
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I heard rats. Isn’t it year of the rat?


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    #64
    skooterblue2
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    New in three cases in Scotland. its started.


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    #65
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    An interesting article/excerpt on diseases throughout history, with some bits on the roles of animals.
    https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-arrow-of-disease


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    #66
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    My kids school just sent out an email titled "Health Announcement". Had a mini panic attack for a second thinking someone there had it but it was just general hygiene advise to prevent the spread of illness.

    We've seen all this scaremongering before with SARS, swine flu, MERS, Ebola etc. I'm going to hold off on the anxiety for a while I think until we know more.


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    #67
    Thrashssacre
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    Apparently over 300,000 left the city in china thw day before the lock down and any number of them could be carriers, numbers effected wikl likely rise but im not sure it will reach swine flu levels.


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    #68
    creditcarder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭creditcarder


    I have no doubt that it's a real thing, but I find it surprising that there seems to be a political angle in the reporting. Its just odd how 'Chinese durty' seems to be the subtext in a lit of the articles.

    Probably true in some regards, but just an interesting spin.


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    #69
    Graces7
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    According to rte, four and only being tested.
    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    New in three cases in Scotland. its started.


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    #70
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    creditcarder wrote: »
    I have no doubt that it's a real thing, but I find it surprising that there seems to be a political angle in the reporting. Its just odd how 'Chinese durty' seems to be the subtext in a lit of the articles.

    Probably true in some regards, but just an interesting spin.

    It's improving year-by-year, but food preparation and food hygiene standards in lots of areas of China would turn your stomach. It's not unusual to see uncovered pig carcasses and pork products being hauled around on a scooter to its destination from the wet-market. Food cooked with gutter oil is still a thing.

    I'm very picky about where I eat when I'm there, particularly in tier-2 cities downwards.


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    #71
    goat2
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    I think, I would be living off , bags of taytoes if I went there, one could always order just chips, but I would not touch meat products


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    #72
    goat2
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    New in three cases in Scotland. its started.

    That could be the ordinary flu we are experiencing here, as it says , symptoms to watch out for, high temperature, sore throat, coughing, and that is what we have here, but it is flu, so could be mistaken


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    #73
    Oranage2
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    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    Apparently some quarters are putting it down to the eating of bat soup.jesus is there anything they won't eat over there.

    Actually they've no idea where it came from according to the media though it's possible it came from snakes.


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    #74
    fritzelly
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    goat2 wrote: »
    That could be the ordinary flu we are experiencing here, as it says , symptoms to watch out for, high temperature, sore throat, coughing, and that is what we have here, but it is flu, so could be mistaken

    Bit of a coincidence considering where they have come from...


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    #75
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    goat2 wrote: »
    I think, I would be living off , bags of taytoes if I went there, one could always order just chips, but I would not touch meat products

    Honestly, in some countries like India and parts of China (rural and low-tier cities mostly), if you want to have a meal with meat - you're best off heading to the nearest McDonalds. You're guaranteed to have hygenically prepared food. Say what you want about Maccas, but they don't mess about with food safety.


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    #76
    Rikand
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Actually they've no idea where it came from according to the media though it's possible it came from snakes.

    All the more reason to make sure there are no snakes on any planes anytime soon


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    #77
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Suspected case now being checked in Northern Ireland on a person recently arrived from Wuhan.

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    #78
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    Yurt! wrote: »
    Honestly, in some countries like India and parts of China (rural and low-tier cities mostly), if you want to have a meal with meat - you're best off heading to the nearest McDonalds. You're guaranteed to have hygenically prepared food. Say what you want about Maccas, but they don't mess about with food safety.

    No chance of a Big Mac in India :(


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    #79
    weldoninhio
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    goat2 wrote: »
    I think, I would be living off , bags of taytoes if I went there, one could always order just chips, but I would not touch meat products

    There’s an Irish lad over there.


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    #80
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    goat2 wrote: »
    I think, I would be living off , bags of taytoes if I went there, one could always order just chips, but I would not touch meat products

    To where, China?

    The food is fantastic. You'll have to swap Taytos for pringles though.

    Terrific fruit as well.


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    #81
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    There’s an Irish lad over there.

    The lad has it sussed. The wisdom of youth:pac:


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    RobertKK
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    Studies at the market where the coronavirus originated from, say it has come from eating snakes.
    The snakes became a carrier from eating bats and then the humans from eating the snakes.

    Mustn't have cooked them properly...


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    #83
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,744 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    There’s an Irish lad over there.

    Economic migrant?


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    #84
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Much ado about nothing.


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    #85
    Bobblehats
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Economic migrant?

    You can go over there as some kid with a basic grasp of the english and become a great revered professor of language. It’s a bit dubious


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    #86
    megatron989
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭megatron989


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Much ado about nothing.

    Wonder did some armchair expert say similar at the brink of the Spanish flu.
    Guess I can rest easy, thanks chief. Phew.


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    #87
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    You can go over there as some kid with a basic grasp of the english and become a great revered professor of language. It’s a bit dubious

    A good friend of mine did exactly this.

    .

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    #88
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,744 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    You can go over there as some kid with a basic grasp of the english and become a great revered professor of language. It’s a bit dubious

    God help us.

    I can imagine poor Chinese lads unable to use There, Their, or They're correctly.


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    #89
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Economic migrant?

    No, genuine asylum seeker apparantly.


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    #90
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Honestly, in some countries like India and parts of China (rural and low-tier cities mostly), if you want to have a meal with meat - you're best off heading to the nearest McDonalds. You're guaranteed to have hygenically prepared food. Say what you want about Maccas, but they don't mess about with food safety.

    Or you could just not eat meat and then not even have to worry about whether your food will make you ill.


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    #91
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The snakes became a carrier from eating bats and then the humans from eating the snakes.

    Mustn't have cooked them properly...

    That’s some food chain to be top of


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