Angles at 2019-nCoV in a nutshell

Never take Republican sides on the 2019-nCoV      

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• Viruses can cause a range of symptoms including a runny nose, cough, sore throat and fever. 

• Some Coronaviruses  are mild, such as the common cold, while others are more likely to lead to pneumonia. They're usually spread through direct contact with an infected person. 

• The coronavirus gets its name from the crown-like spikes on its surface.

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           HEALTH IMPACT AND NEWS   - Answers -NPR

How did Coronavirus start?

How is Coronavirus spread?

What happens if a person gets the Coronavirus?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/what-new-coronavirus-n1119081  

How did Coronavirus start?

• It's believed that the virus started out from an illegal seafood market in Wuhan, China. The market sold wild animals like birds, bats, and snakes. So it's thought that the first group of people to catch Coronavirus are workers at that market.

How is Coronavirus spread?

• The thing is that we don't know much about how the Coronavirus is actually spread.  But we do know that they spread from one person to another via respiratory droplets, the liquid from your respiratory system which come out when you sneeze or cough. It is similar to how influenza spreads. The respiratory droplets of an infected person have the Coronavirus pathogen. Once they enter the lungs of a person, the person is now infected.

What happens if a person gets the Coronavirus?

• Once an uninfected person gets the Coronavirus, he/she can start to show the effects in 2-14 days. The illness ranges from people who show little or no effect, to people who become extremely ill and end up dying.

• Fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath

       So that's Coronavirus in a nutshell!

   You can read a more detailed version here.

task 2_        Read about the death toll - updates  Feb 2020

                                of a varied range of spreading diseases     - link 

  PART 1___    EBOLA  2014 - West Africa

• The 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus was first discovered in 1976. It started in Guinea and then moved across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia.

• The current 2018-2019 outbreak in eastern DRC is highly complex, with insecurity adversely affecting public health response activities.

• There is no proven cure for the virus but in December 2016, it was reported that a new and effective vaccine had been developed.

         Death toll (2014-2016): 11,325

         Cases (2014-2016): 28,600

  PART  2___ ___   SARS 2002 - China

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) first appeared during a pandemic in China in 2002.

• SARS is an airborne virus which is spread in small droplets of saliva coughed or sneezed into the air by an infected person.

• There's currently no cure for SARS, but research to find a vaccine is ongoing.

             Death toll: 774

             Infections: 8,098

  PART  3___ ___   Spanish flu pandemic  - 1918 -Global

• There was also no vaccine for the strain in 1918.

• It was wrongly named the Spanish flu because it was first reported by a newspaper in Madrid (Spain), but it's now believed to have started in Kansas, US.

• Experts say that most people living today would have some immunity to viruses in the 1918 virus' family, called H1N1, while modern antiviral drugs may also be effective.

       

       Death toll:    20-50 million (estimate)

        Infections:    500 million (estimate)