First Human Case of H3N8 Bird Flu Detected in China:
[...] A case of H3N8 influenza was detected in a 4-year-old boy in China. [...] It's the first time the virus has jumped from animals to humans -- but it looks like a one-off jump and further risk of spread is low.
The first case of H3N8 avian influenza has been recorded in China, according to a report by Reuters on Tuesday.
China's National Health Commission released a statement on Tuesday confirming a 4-year-old boy was infected with the strain of bird flu. The boy, from the central Chinese province of Henan, was in close contact with chickens and wild ducks and came down with a fever on April 5. He was admitted to hospital on April 10.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @06:13PM (17 children)
China again?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @06:17PM (16 children)
My bad about China. I suppose this was bound to happen sooner and later, and when it does, a good chance it would happen in China since it's a big ass country with butload of people and animals.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @06:45PM (1 child)
Do they suspect fowl play?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday April 28 2022, @08:11PM
It might not be any worse than simply using fowl language.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 28 2022, @06:58PM (13 children)
I mean, why not India? (Pretty close to same size population.) Or anywhere else in the world? China may have the most people, but the whole rest of the world is there. China's population accounts for a bit less than 18% of the entire world. Thus, asking what's up with China, isn't an outright bad question. It may still be a bad question, but not due to population.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @07:37PM (2 children)
It has always been China. The yearly flu starts there, the Black Death came from there, Wuhan coronavirus... the place is filthy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @08:34PM (1 child)
Apparently you've never been to India.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @10:10PM
India is filthy as well, but the diseases historically have come from China.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @08:30PM (4 children)
Indians don't eat everything they can get their hands on... Chinamen will eat anything.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tizan on Thursday April 28 2022, @08:52PM (2 children)
Indian animal/meat/poultry consumption is much more limited than China. There is no concept of wet markets of live animals.
Other forms of transmission you can see the same if not higher rate of transmission...malaria, dengue, amoebiasis etc etc...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @10:10PM
It's the toilette problem. Maybe wasn't such an issue in the ancient/medieval days when the population density was much lower, but in these modern days, India has got to kick this problem in the butt and sort it out.
For shiva's sake, today's India, a country that can shoot rockets into the orbits, should be able to provide half-decent sewer system and toilette for her people. The Lord Rama would.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @04:03PM
Or it's just a crapshoot!
Colorado man tests positive for H5 bird flu, 1st human case in the U.S. as CDC reports public health risk assessment remains low [kktv.com]
It is slightly amusing to me how 'dirty chinamen get bird flu' makes the news but the exact same thing happening in the US on the very same day, doesn't!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @03:59PM
What do Coloradomen eat? [cnn.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday April 28 2022, @08:48PM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @10:26PM (2 children)
China has a combination of factors that makes such zoonoses more likely. They have cities with high density, a large amount of interior and exterior travel, a large amount of frontier land, areas with high levels of contact with wild animals, rural areas with bad infection controls, high disease surveillance, vertically integrated medicine, etc. These not only make the chance of novel diseases much higher but also increase the chances of actually spotting the ones that do occur. Other countries that are at high risk of new disease may not have the ability to spot them before they flame out or are spotted elsewhere. Others are great at spotting the diseases once they happen even if they are much more rare at actually starting there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2022, @11:12PM
Whatever happens in China, eventually spread out to the world, both good and bad - a lot more "bad" with CCP in charge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @09:46PM
Similarly for the USA and the USA also seems to want to rely on China to spot contagious diseases and tell the USA what to do. After all the US Gov was accusing China for covering up how serious covid-19 was.
Whereas other countries kinda noticed China locked down entire cities/regions and built new hospitals in weeks and took action accordingly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @03:26AM
Meat consumption per capita is lower. A higher percentage of Indians are vegetarians or near-vegetarians. Lot harder for diseases to jump from beans to humans... ;)
Anyway while China might have slightly higher "new infectious disease" rate it doesn't seem that much higher. MERS was from the Middle East. HIV/AIDS was probably from Africa.
The USA has bird flu too: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091061758/bird-flu-outbreak [npr.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @12:52PM
by the thought that this virus will now go into inventory to copy its mechanism for bridging with zoonosis creating more proof of function samples.
The good is that it can give us ways to neutralize a possible future strain, however, the temptation for government/military to use these also to subjugate a population is what is worrying.
You can bring China to its knees, that is certainly clear.
Given our current environment, there are probably a lot of interested parties in developing the next gen espionage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @03:43PM
i find it amazing that a (correct-political-speak wrong) social useless goat... err...chicken and duck boy shepard got enough attention that plain old commen flu symptoms ("open mouth, say AHHH!") where reason enough to bother a multimelleon device infrastructure analyzing machine to detect and figure this out.
i don't think birdflu v.38 has special obvious symptoms like maybe a pink horn growing out the side of the head or a deligent clubbermint health care official with a good pension fund and no possible default on monthly salary just up and decided to mobilize said multi-bellion super high tech detection device to "chicken-and-duck-istan-backwater" ... just in case ... you know 'cause it's spring and *yawn* ... shit birdflu always happens in spring?
so yeah, sure, this guy is 100% patient zer0 for this years birdflu season.
note: get well soon. i hear ..erm... chicken soup helps.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @07:08PM
Human infection by a different variant (H5N1) occured in the UK last year, followed by one in Colorodao just now.
Lay off China on this one. I'm sure China will produce plenty of occasions for us to rag on them.