Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus

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BREAKING: Chinese state media says the city of Wuhan is shutting down outbound flights and trains as new virus spreads more widely.

The illness comes from a newly identified type of coronavirus, a family of viruses that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as the SARS outbreak that spread from China to more than a dozen countries in 2002-2003 and killed about 800 people. Some experts have drawn parallels between the new coronavirus and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, another coronavirus that does not spread very easily among humans and is thought to be carried by camels.

Macao, a former Portuguese colony that is a semi-autonomous Chinese city, reported one case Wednesday. “As an adult, I am not too worried about the disease,” Yang Bin, the father of a 7-year-old, said after buying a mask. “I think we are more worried about our kids. ... It would be unacceptable to the parents if they got sick.”

“We are still in the process of learning more about this disease,” Gao Fu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, said at the news conference. Dr. David Heymann, who headed WHO’s global response to SARS in 2003, said the new virus appears dangerous for older people with other health conditions, but doesn’t seem nearly as infectious as SARS.

 

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Very cosmetic. Wonder why they dont shut down inbound. Eventually people have to leave. Of course there is the except they give people for leaving.

Always China! And they knew about over a month. Now this! They’re are up to something.

Reminiscent of the SARS virus. I recall flying into the Taipei airport during the peak of the crisis and it was like a ghost town.

so inbound is still intact? I don't get it.

Wuhan seafood market, you can buy wild animals there.

isn’t this how the book world war z started!?!

Based on my small circle, that virus has been here. Seen many sick folks down for the count.

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It’s already in US.

Did you know that coronaviruses thrive in the excrement of bats & other mammals? In other words, deadly viruses jump from animals to humans when people are exposed to high levels of SCHIFF!

Is anyone from Wuhan at Davos? Maybe met tRump or Ivanka?

John_HCL_Stark

They keep live animals in open markets for consumption in conditions so unsanitary and deplorable no living creature should be. SARS virus originated same way. I don’t mind they kill themselves but they’re dragging the world with them.

Dirtiest town I ever visited I was there 4 years ago. The air was so thick you could cut it with a knife. If the climate control fools could visit this city they would have a heart attack.

Too late.

Always reliable Chinese state media reports.

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should of acted quickly

I wonder if China would go as far as to execute its own citizens...🤔 Oh wait just ask the uygers, Falun Gong practitioners, and hong Kong protesters.

I would say quarantining a city is a bit of an escalation. I hope that ALL container lorries passing through the laughable border controls of Europe are being very thoroughly checked before access is granted to the U.K. This is why we need to stop the flow of illegal immigrants!

Little late for that

NBC29 after the proverbial horse is already out of the barn.

This is huge. There are like 11 million people in Wuhan. That's New York and LA combined.

I’m starting to believe that China is creating these viruses and testing on their own people. Every year a new strain of deadly virus is released and China is ground zero.

In the movies they also used a fuel-air bomb....that didn't end well either. This may slow it down but we are a global village now.

Experts have coined the virus the Asian Ebola

So many life- threatening respiratory illnesses come from Asian countries.

Containment - good

I was calling for BanChinaFlights since yesterday!

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