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| People In Hong Kong Are Becoming Ill With Rat Hepatitis For First Time Ever. No One Knows How It's Happening. |
| 2020-05-10 |
| [Daily Wire] A new report this week outlined an increasing virus problem in Hong Kong, which is attached to mainland China, where rat hepatitis E is jumping from rats to humans for the first time in history, and no one seems to know how it’s happening. New animal based anomaly turns up where again? Hong Kong! Oh, I see. I see. The first case was reported in 2018 when infectious disease experts at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) examined a man who had just undergone a liver transplant and was having liver problems. "Tests found that his immune system was responding to hepatitis E — but they couldn’t actually find the human strain of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) in his blood," CNN reported. "With tests for that human strain of HEV negative, the researchers redesigned the diagnostic test, ran it again — and found, for the first time in history, rat hepatitis E in a human." Dr. Siddharth Sridhar, a microbiologist at HKU, told CNN that "suddenly, we have a virus that can jump from street rats to humans" but added that it was not clear if it was just a "one-off incident." Since the first discovery, ten more cases have been identified in Hong Kong with the most recently discovered case being identified a week ago in a man who had no recent travel history and had no signs of rats in his home. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #17 ..you can have all the talk you want, but if enough of the public is PO'd they won't buy stuff labeled made in China. I'm sure business will pick up in places like SW Asia and Central America for relabeling. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-10 20:49 |
| #16 Meanwhile, trade talks continue between PRC & USA.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-10 19:44 |
| #15 Any Democrats visited Honkers lately? |
| Posted by: Classer 2020-05-10 17:46 |
| #14 #12 - Or an accurate financial report |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-10 15:20 |
| #13 ^ So, who's running against Xi? Is Bernie invited? |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-05-10 14:40 |
| #12 Party congress is coming up in the Great Hall of the People. It needs an Ebola desert. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-05-10 14:31 |
| #11 ^ this. Getting tired of this phony war in which they attack us and we pretend to cooperate with them to undo the damage they caused. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-10 14:16 |
| #10 I wish the cowardly SOB's would just go ahead and declare war on us so that we could destroy them and their wet markets properly. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-10 14:13 |
| #9 "Doctor, my brain hurts!" |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-10 14:07 |
| #8 a doc we know said: "Certain rat hepatitis viruses are coronavirus. There's one being used in the lab in mice as a good model of SARS-COVID-2 infection, as it uses similar receptors and cell entry mechanisms." |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-05-10 14:05 |
| #7 ^ Lady Barbara Occam for the win. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-10 11:35 |
| #6 "No one knows how it's happening" Guaranteed the ChiComs are involved. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2020-05-10 11:29 |
| #5 Then there's rat lungworm disease (Angiostrongylus cantonensis). Note the species name. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-05-10 09:44 |
| #4 More bio-warfare from the ChiComs? |
| Posted by: Shineger Pelosi3555 2020-05-10 08:33 |
| #3 whatever the source, i'm sure it won't be the wet markets, right? |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-10 08:17 |
| #2 Time to quarantine HK now? Long rat trap stocks. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-10 08:07 |
| #1 Zoonoses (Live Science link) - A naturally occurring coincidence, or laboratory engineered vector ? Bacteria and viruses that are deadly to one type of creature can evolve quickly to infect another. While the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) is the latest example,a host of infectious and deadly diseases have hopped from animals to humans and even from humans to animals. The cross-species infection can originate on farms or markets, where conditions foster mixing of pathogens, giving them opportunities to swap genes and gear up to infect (and sometimes kill) previously foreign hosts. Or the transfer can occur from such seemingly benign activities as letting a performance monkey on some Indonesian street corner climb on your head. Microbes of two varieties can even gather in your gut, do some viral dancing, and evolve to morph you into a contagious host. Diseases passed from animals to humans are called zoonoses. There are more than three dozen we can catch directly through touch and more than four dozen that result from bites. But disease-carrying parasites are not picky about hosts. Human diseases can decimate animal populations, too, from such well-meaning activities as ecotourism. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-10 08:01 |