As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with
worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan,
China, as the origin of the outbreak. But a description of the first clinical
cases
on Friday challenges that hypothesis.
The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several
institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had
confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus
(2019-nCoV). In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019
and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. “No
epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases,” they
state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to
the marketplace. “That’s a big number, 13, with no link,” says Daniel Lucey, an
infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University.
had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8
December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the
seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.
Lucey
says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have
occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time
between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread
silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of
cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was
discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it
came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.
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The Lancet paper’s data also
raise questions about the accuracy of the initial information China
provided, Lucey says. At the beginning of the outbreak, the main official
source of public information were notices from the Wuhan Municipal Health
Commission. Its notices on 11
January started to refer to the 41 patients as the only confirmed cases and
the count remained
the same until 18 January . The notices did not state that the seafood
market was the source, but they repeatedly noted that there was no evidence of
human-to-human transmission and that most cases linked to the market. Because
the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission noted that diagnostic tests had confirmed
these 41 cases by 10 January and officials presumably knew the case
histories of each patient, “China must have realized the epidemic did not
originate in that Wuhan Huanan seafood market,” Lucey tells Science Insider.
(Lucey also spoke about his concerns in an interview published
online yesterday by Science Speaks , a project of the Infectious Disease
Society of America.)
Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research
Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its
origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an
interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody
being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is
one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the
data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and
knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected
animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace.
Andersen posted
his
analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a
virology research website. It suggests they had a “most recent common
ancestor”—meaning a common source—as early as 1 October 2019.
Bin Cao of Capital Medical University, the corresponding author of
The
Lancet article and a pulmonary specialist, wrote in an email
to
Science Insider that he and his co-authors “appreciate
the criticism” from Lucey.
“Now It seems clear that [the] seafood market is not the only origin of the
virus,” he wrote. “But to be honest, we still do not know where the virus came
from now.”
Lucey notes that the discovery of the coronavirus that causes Middle East
respiratory syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease that occurs sporadically,
came from a patient in Saudi Arabia in June 2012, although
later
studies traced it back to an earlier hospital outbreak of unexplained
pneumonia in Jordan in April 2012. Stored samples from two people who died in
Jordan confirmed they had been infected with the virus. Retrospective
analyses of blood samples in China from people and animals—including vendors from
other animal markets—may reveal a clear picture of where the 2019-nCoV
originated, he suggests. “There might be a clear signal among the noise,” he
says. Paedia Express Multimedia is a general news content provider whose print
edition is a news tabloid.
Friday, 7 February 2020
CORONER VIRUS!!!CHINESE GOVT
SHOULD HALT THIS GENOCIDE
CORONER VIRUS!!!CHINESE GOVT SHOULD HALT THIS GENOCIDE
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU[LAGOS,NIGERIA]
The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia
Group of Lagos,Nigeria now urge the group deliberately informing the entire
world that the Coroner Virus never shows symptoms in some victims thus making
it pretty difficult to contain to stop this deliberate acts of spreading a
great lie or acts of false hood which in itself is a war crime as it is an
aspect of bio-terrorism.
About the time of going to press ,this reporter was also
informed about news emanating from Opra on the web that there were plans to
kill all those infected with the virus,well,we want to believe this is
simply put : fake news and not true at all as the disease despite having no
vaccines presently thus responds to treatments when the symptoms are
discovered and this could be verified by anyone..
There are also on-going efforts by researchers worldwide to
do all that is humanly possible to get a vaccine for the novel Coroner Virus
before the end of the year..
Latest reports as at press time,shows that the disease
has killed well over 600 people with more than 3,143 new infections
reported from across Mainland China.
In its incubatory stages t is infectious though it may
not show symptoms we were told by a large sections of the global
press till 05/02/2020 ,but we have since discovered this to be a big lie.
At some point since the Outbreak last month,The Chinese
National Health Commission [C.N.H.C.]said the transmission ability of the virus
was getting stronger.
Then this reporter went to town to sample public opinion
about the global health situation and the response was interesting though.
At the ever busy market at the Popular Pen Cinema area
of Agege in Lagos,Nigeria in Lagos state of Nigeria on the 31st of
January,2020 ,The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Expres Multimedia Group
of Lagos saw how Nigerians in the informal market trying to adjust to the
reality of the disease:Coroner virus as not less than five people
including a traffic controlling police officer fondly called Yellow Fever
As at 05/02/2020 ,yet another source blamed the viral
attacks on biological terrorism by China so as to raise the quantum
volume of her economy in conspiracy with others especially in the light
of the global the trade war dispute ...
A laboratory scientist in a Lagos health care centre
while speaking to this reporter albeit anonymously said that the use of
good sanitary methods on a personal and environmental level should not be
compromised by anyone at all at this stage but that she could not speak
much on the affair due to the no vaccines at the moment for this disease.
At the Corporate Communications Department of the
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria [F.A.A.N.]at the Lagos
international Airport ,an insider said he had suggested the wearing of face
masks to some of his colleagues at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
in Kano on account of the weather while noting that this could just
be done shortly in Lagos due to the World Health Organization 's global alert
on coroner virus.
At the Domestic Terminal one in arrival and departure
units,this reporter discovered an air of indifference by Nigerians most of whom
apart from not wearing face masks felt the Coroner Virus thing was a
foreign phobia which could not happen here in Nigeria.
A source in his own opinion blamed the disease spread and
attacks on the bad eating habits of the average Chinese thus throwing the
entire globe into a health emergency...
He recalled seeing them eating uncooked meat
delicacies from various animal origin ,a fact several people have
corroborated in the past even before the declaration of the outbreak of
the deadly coroner virus...
This reporter had spotted a Chinese man at around Three P.M.
in front of his offices at the ever busy Thomas Salako Street
,Ogba,Lagos,Nigeria as the latter negotiated another street with a Nigerian
accompanying him with the Asia wearing a face mask thus
showing the seriousness to the malady in the Far East nation,meanwhile a
Nigerian lady spotted wearing a face mask at the Nigerian Institute of
Journalism ,Ogba,Lagos,Nigeria also raised concerns about the level
of alertness in Nigeria.
on the 27th of January,2020,yet another source argued that the
new viral strain could be a biological weapon targeted at reducing the
population of all of mankind in the aftermath of the big trade dispute between
the United States of America and China,thus fueling speculations that the
global economy could be seriously threatened than we were being told.
Senior Nigerian Journalist,Mr Wale Fatade who had taken a
bad picture of a place somewhere in a Lagos neighborhood and had wanted
the state government to attend to it ,suddenly raised an alarm of infringement
on his privacy when The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia
Group of Lagos,Nigeria informed him his photo news which he alerted state
leadership of was amplified and on Paedia Express led to his registering
a public displeasure .
Even efforts to calm him down on the urgency of the
situation due to the outbreak of the coroner virus in China could not sway him.
This medium has since offered him an unreserved public
apology over the unfortunate incident .
On the 29th of Januay,2020,however, two independent sources
who heard of the attacks on the News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express
Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,which had gone sourcing for editorial
materials on a global health situation but for which it was criticized by Mr Wale
Fatade for violating his privacy was disagreed with by analysts.
They both pointed out that Mr Wale Fatade while having
a right to his privacy over reacted on the matter as he was the one that called
the attention of the general public to his area while pleading with the state
government to come to their aid so that the filth in his place could be cleared
up hence had waved the rights to privacy at that stage considering
the global health alert on coroner virus
In a related issue, on the 2nd of February ,2020 ,a nurse in
a Lagos Hospital who will not want the names in print due to the sensitivity of
the issue said that the viral strain for the disease could not survive
the heat of the tropical weather due to the extreme heat and temperature
.
According to her ,a victim's body fluids will have to make a
direct contact with another person for an infective pathway to be
established for the pathogenic factor to flourish in a human body..
She urged Nigerians to be willing to make use of
sanitizers,soaps,wash basins with water a lot in the months ahead.
Yet another source ,lamented the political angle to
the disease as he insisted that it was a biological weapon introduced by the
imperialists to boost their economy through the possible boom that
will be recorded of sales in drugs,vaccines,kits amongst others from Coroner
Virus before the end of the year,2020..
In yet another situation,the west is being blamed over the
crisis situation brought by the novel Coroner Virus in China. as a source
affirmed that the main stream media and some selected politicians which
were not named wanted to use this virus as a weapon globally to kill people for
political reasons and this was why they initially fed the whole world the
report that a victim may not show symptoms at all .
This was to make sure that when the virus persists with its
killings then they can politicize the sales of drugs and vaccines
,curiously the Nigerian government seems to be indifferent to this plan with
there body language.
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