I've been watching Australia more lately, they seemed to have nipped the virus spread fairly well however they are going into Autumn and Winter which they may see a spike in cases coming...Not sure if temperature means a whole lot to this particular virus, time will tell...I agree with you though, a second wave could be extremely deadly, more so than the first wave, like the Spanish flu pandemic over a century ago...
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It's actually the posting activity in this thread. We're past the peak!Death by slippers or suicide or maybe Weatherspoons withdrawal heart failure.
In what way is it 'freakishly similar' to coronavirus?Bees dying of disease eerily similar to coronavirus, British scientists say
The latest buzz in the science world: Honeybees are dying of something that is freakishly similar to the coronavirus.
Bee populations around the globe have been decimated by a viral disease that creeps into hives via asymptomatic insects and spreads like wildfire, British researchers discovered. Their research even suggests the insects could benefit from social distancing.
The scientists found piles of bee carcasses outside hives infected with chronic bee paralysis virus, which causes severe trembling, flightlessness and death within a week, the Guardian reported.
The infection was once a rarity but has spread rapidly, according to the researchers at Newcastle University, who examined bees in 25 countries.
In Britain, for example, chronic bee paralysis virus took only a decade to invade 39 of 47 English counties and six of eight Welsh counties. In the US, the infection rate jumped from 0.7% in 2010 to 16% in 2014.
The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggests that the disease is twice as likely to infect commercially harvested bees — and that colonies not confined to the close quarters might fare better.
“You can’t do social distancing in a hive as easily, but you can manage it by increasing the space in there,” Professor Giles Budge told the website.
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In what way is it 'freakishly similar' to coronavirus?
You could say then that it is 'eerily similar to chickenpox', or bovine foot and mouth, or any of many other viral diseases. What their headline is saying is essentially 'virus behaves like many other viruses'.I guess mainly in the way it's quickly spreads through the bee colonies?...
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Has anyone else noticed that if you go over to Google Maps and look at the city of Wuhan and select the satellite layer, the registration of the streets superimposed over the imagery is not correct? i.e. The pictures do not line up with the street markings and the labels? This artefact is also present in Google Earth.
Furthermore, if you type in the search box, "Wuhan Institute of Virology", it takes you to an address that is nowhere near the actual location? The Wikipedia page for the Institute also apparently gives the wrong location as well. If you do an image search for the WIV, it gives you lots of pictures of a building that looks like this (this picture illustrates a Guardian article):
This building, as located by matching its appearance to a building on the map, is located in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan, an industrial area in the southern part of the city. Both Google Maps and Wikipedia identify its location as the Wuchang District, which is about eight miles to the north and much closer to the centre of the city.
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