Conditions on that boat are extraordinary and merit epidemiological investigation in their own right - which I'm sure they'll receive.
So far, one third of the people on board have been tested, and one third of those have tested positive. That's an extraordinary rate of prevalence - I mean, not even a third of people in Wuhan have it, nor anything like. If you quadruple the number of observed cases it'd still only be 2% of the population of Wuhan.
Bear in mind that the only reason they knew there was plague on the ship at all was that a HK bloke got off and tested positive. It's very unlikely that he was the one who carried it on to the ship originally, and given that whoever did probably disembarked some time ago, the question is what on earth enabled it to spread so widely among the passengers? And is it still spreading? I bet it is.
There is something odd going on - something wrong with the ship's drainage and ventilation systems perhaps - because cruise ship passengers aren't actually cooped up that closely in normal times, and these ones have been locked in their cabins for almost two weeks.
Get them off the fooking boat and into quarantine, tested or not, ffs
Britain is home to both the largest (172 cases, Barrow-in-Furness, 2002) and deadliest (28 deaths, Stafford, 1985) outbreaks of legionella. The Stafford case involved the then-new District General Hospital, which went on to be at the centre of the Mid Staffs care quality crisis too - an accursed place. The Barrow outbreak involved the local art and cultural centre IIRC
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That ship sounds like actual hell and I will never go on a cruise in my life (I wasn't going to but I never will now)
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Conditions on that boat are extraordinary and merit epidemiological investigation in their own right - which I'm sure they'll receive.
So far, one third of the people on board have been tested, and one third of those have tested positive. That's an extraordinary rate of prevalence - I mean, not even a third of people in Wuhan have it, nor anything like. If you quadruple the number of observed cases it'd still only be 2% of the population of Wuhan.
Bear in mind that the only reason they knew there was plague on the ship at all was that a HK bloke got off and tested positive. It's very unlikely that he was the one who carried it on to the ship originally, and given that whoever did probably disembarked some time ago, the question is what on earth enabled it to spread so widely among the passengers? And is it still spreading? I bet it is.
There is something odd going on - something wrong with the ship's drainage and ventilation systems perhaps - because cruise ship passengers aren't actually cooped up that closely in normal times, and these ones have been locked in their cabins for almost two weeks.
Get them off the fooking boat and into quarantine, tested or not, ffs
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In Wuhan itself I think the hour of panic has almost passed tbh. New infections have been falling steadily for almost two weeks.
Agree with Linda about the ship
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Maybe they've all actually got legionnaires disease.
I fear shared plumbing for that reason.
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The US should just roll the army up from Okinawa, bustle the incompetent Japanese out of the way and take charge of the evac
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I assume the passengers have demanded the air con is left on as otherwise it will be sweltering trapped in a cabin with no other ventilation.
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fascinating issue, legionnnaires' disease
a pet topic of mine
Britain is home to both the largest (172 cases, Barrow-in-Furness, 2002) and deadliest (28 deaths, Stafford, 1985) outbreaks of legionella. The Stafford case involved the then-new District General Hospital, which went on to be at the centre of the Mid Staffs care quality crisis too - an accursed place. The Barrow outbreak involved the local art and cultural centre IIRC
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