Deadly coronavirus outbreak DID start at the animal market in Wuhan where snakes, rats and wolf cubs

[Clutch]

So the Chinese eat the national animal of the Turks.

No wonder the Chinese are at the top of the food chain.

I think the Virus is top of the food chain right now .. its eating the Chinese.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

An interesting Fact:

Worldwide, the flu causes up to 5 million cases of severe illness worldwide and kills up to 650,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization. < thats your FLU

Influenza has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600, according to the CDC. And flu season hasn’t even peaked. In a bad year, the flu kills up to 61,000 Americans.

Fast fact Ebola only killed 11,000 people.
Which would you rather have? The flu or Ebola?

 

[Beast]

Fast fact Ebola only killed 11,000 people.
Which would you rather have? The flu or Ebola?

Ebola is too lethal which makes spreading it difficult. If u got Ebola,80% chance you will die.

 

[Broccoli]

I finally found the article what I was looking for a few days now.

The most senior defector from the Soviet germ warfare program says in a new book that Soviet officials concluded that China had suffered a serious accident at one of its secret plants for developing biological weapons, causing two major epidemics.

The defector, Kanatjan Alibekov, now known as Ken Alibek, says in the book that as deputy director of a top branch of the Soviet program, he knew of the disaster in China because he saw secret Soviet intelligence reports twice a month.

Spy satellites peering down at China found what seemed to be a large biological weapons laboratory and plant near a remote site for testing nuclear warheads, he wrote. Intelligence agents then found evidence that two epidemics of hemorrhagic fever swept the region in the late 1980's. The area had never previously known such diseases, which cause profuse bleeding and death.

''Our analysts,'' Dr. Alibek said, ''concluded that they were caused by an accident in a lab where Chinese scientists were weaponizing viral diseases.'' Viral scourges that cause intense bleeding include Marburg fever and the dreaded Ebola virus. Both are endemic to Africa.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/05/...-says-china-had-accident-at-a-germ-plant.html

 

[Nan Yang]

Worried About Catching The New Coronavirus? In The U.S., Flu Is A Bigger Threat
January 29, 20204:37 PM ET
ALLISON AUBREY

Making sure to frequently give your hands a thorough scrub — with soap and for about as long as it takes to sing the "Happy Birthday" song a couple of times — can significantly cut your chances of catching the flu or other respiratory virus.

Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

If you live in the U.S, your risk of contracting the new strain of coronavirus identified in China is exceedingly low.

So far, the only people infected in the U.S. have traveled to the region in China where the virus first turned up in people. And, though that could change, one thing is for certain: Another severe respiratory virus that threatens lives — the influenza or "flu" virus — is very active in the U.S. right now.

Already this flu season (which generally begins in the U.S. in October and peaks during winter months), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 15 million people in the U.S. have gotten sick with flu. More than 150,000 Americans have been
hospitalized, and more than 8,000 people have died from their infection. And, this isn't even a particularly bad flu year.

"Last year we had 34,000 deaths from flu," says epidemiologist Brandon Brown of the University of California, Riverside. On average, the flu is responsible for somewhere between 12,000 and 61,000 deaths each year. "And this is just in the United States," Brown says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...coronavirus-in-the-u-s-flu-is-a-bigger-threat