Wuhan virus 2020

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

Give the bug some heat!



The practically relevant things are in the last third of the video. And Hoh-hoh-hoh, are they common sense! I never understood why people panic when getting a lil' fever. As long as the temp is not life-threatening, let it run, do not swallow stuff to fight it - the fever IS the fight the body delivers to the germ giving it troubles.



When I got a flu or cold in the past, I took a hot shower (no bath tub here), drank hot tea or hot spoicey soup (hot spice helps to raise body temp and getting into sweat), and then packed myself into the bed with a heating pillow. I tried to provoke high temperature and a lot of sweating. The night might not have been fun, even might have brought me a headache from the heat, but the next day I usually was fine again. And no, no Aspirin or Paracetamol against the headache. For it also fights fever temps, and that is not wanted.When provoking or havign a fever: Do not drink if you are not thirsty! Do not think you must forceyourself to drink due to all that sweating if your boidy doe snto signal you it wants to drinbk. The liquid must be processed, the body must redirect energy to that that else it would have used to keep the temp high, and keeping the temp above normal is very energy-intensive. Have you ever noticed that often animals that are sick do not only not eat, but also not drink? To go without drinking for 12 or 18 or 24 hours will not kill you or harm your health, if you have no preconditions alrrady. Not drinking if you are not thirsty helps your body to keep the temperature high.

People who like it: do sauna. Take sessions with infrared radiators. Expose yourself to the warmth outside, and sunshine. Or have a room oven, and lay yourself on it.

Pretty sane things, pretty much common sense.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

North Korea's rapidly spreading Covid-19 outbreak is a "great disaster" for the country, its leader Kim Jong-un has said, according to state media.

Mr Kim called for an all-out battle to tackle the spread of the virus during an emergency meeting on Saturday.

It comes after officials announced the first confirmed cases on Thursday - although experts believe the virus has likely been circulating for some time.

There are fears a major outbreak could have dire consequences in North Korea.

Its population of 25 million is vulnerable due to the lack of a vaccination programme and poor healthcare system.

And on Saturday, state media reported that there had been half a million cases of unexplained fever in recent weeks. The country has limited testing capabilities so most Covid cases are not confirmed.

That figure marked a major increase on the numbers given on both Friday and Thursday, potentially providing some indication of the scale of North Korea's outbreak.

"The spread of the malignant epidemic is [the greatest] turmoil to fall on our country since the founding," the official KCNA news agency quoted Mr Kim as saying.

He blamed the crisis on bureaucratic and medical incompetence, and suggested lessons could be learnt from the response of countries like neighbouring China.

State media reports that 27 people have died since April after suffering a fever.

The reports do not say whether they tested positive for Covid, apart from one death in the capital Pyongyang which was confirmed to be a case of the Omicron variant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61446907

[Skybird]

Long Covid. Health issues remain even after 2 years and longer.

Regardless of initial disease severity, COVID-19 survivors had longitudinal improvements in physical and mental health, with most returning to their original work within 2 years; however, the burden of symptomatic sequelae remained fairly high. COVID-19 survivors had a remarkably lower health status than the general population at 2 years. The study findings indicate that there is an urgent need to explore the pathogenesis of long COVID and develop effective interventions to reduce the risk of long COVID.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...126-6/fulltext

[Jimbuna]

Shanghai has announced its city-wide lockdowns will be gradually lifted from 1 June, after 15 out of 16 districts achieving "social dynamic Zero-Covid cases".

China's biggest city imposed its first lockdown in the beginning of April, amid a surge in Omicron cases.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-61023811

[Jimbuna]

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has lambasted health officials and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, as a wave of Covid cases sweeps through the country.

More than a million people have now been sickened by what Pyongyang is calling a "fever", state media said.

Some 50 people have died, but it's unclear how many of those suspected cases tested positive for Covid.

North Korea has only limited testing capacity, so few cases are confirmed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61436270

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

^ I thought this virus had already appeared in 2016, introduced by an index patient named Boris Johnson...?!

[mapuc]

It was in the news here some hours ago and they said that this Monkeypox
Are spreading in Europe. There are 8 cases of Monkeypox and the anchor said that a majority of those who have been infected is men who sleep with men.

Markus

[August]

Monkey Pox, isn't that a slang term for AIDs?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

Monkey Pox, isn't that a slang term for AIDs?

Not as far as I am aware.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Not as far as I am aware.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/

Investigations are underway to establish links between the latest 4 cases, who all appear to have been infected in London. All 4 of these cases self-identify as gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men (MSM)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/m...latest-updates

Markus