Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

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British scientist, 42, is sleeping just two hours a night as she races against time in her San Diego lab to invent a vaccine that will stop coronavirus deaths

A British scientist is sleeping for just two hours as a night as she races against the clock to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Kate Broderick, 42, from Scotland, has been fighting infectious diseases for more than 20 years including successful vaccines for ebola, zika and Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). Dr Broderick has told how she feels a 'personality responsibility' to do everything in her power to develop a vaccine and averages just a couple of hours sleep while testing on mice and guinea pigs during the day. 'I've spent my entire life working towards making a difference in an outbreak setting like this and I will do whatever it takes,' she told The Times.


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Now China is hit by BIRD FLU outbreak: 'Highly pathogenic' H5N1 bug that can spread to humans kills 4,500 chickens on farm south of Coronavirus epicentre

A farm in Shaoyang city in the southern province of Hunan reported the outbreak yesterday. Chinese authorities have already culled 17,828 birds in the wake of the disease. The bird flu has been classed as highly pathogenic because of the number of birds which have died from the disease.

According to the NHS, the H5N1 strain of the virus has 'caused concern' in recent years. Although the disease doesn't easily infect humans and it is hard to spread it from human to human, several people have been infected around the world and died. When people do become infected by the disease, the rate of mortality is about 60 per cent, according to the World Health Organisation. People can become infected by coming into close contact with infected live or dead birds, or H5N1-contaminated environments. Shaoyang is about 302 miles from the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began late last month.

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Shocking moment shopper is dragged from Chinese supermarket 'after she REFUSED to wear face mask' in latest troubling video emerging from virus-hit nation

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Mobile phone footage from Wednesday shows the shopper, identified only by her surname Qiu, resisting two uniformed officers as they haul her down the aisle of Space supermarket in Shenzen, in south China's Guangdong province. The local government, responsible for some 113million inhabitants, announced a province-wide mask order effective on January 26, making it a punishable offence to be in a public space without a surgical mask.

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Allegations against a Harvard scientist.
Harvard Professor Charged With Hiding Ties to China Released on $1M Bond

Charles Lieber, formerly chair of the chemistry and chemical biology department, allegedly agreed to conduct research, publish articles and apply for patents on behalf of China's Wuhan University of Technology in exchange for $50,000 per month and about $150,000 in living expenses

By Alanna Durkin Richer • Published January 30, 2020 • Updated on January 31, 2020 at 1:04 am

A Harvard University professor charged with lying about his role in a Chinese talent recruitment program was released from custody Thursday and ordered to post a $1 million cash bond.

Charles Lieber appeared in Boston's federal court wearing orange jail garb and chains around his ankles two days after his arrest at his Ivy League university office, where he was chair of the chemistry and chemical biology department.

Lieber is accused of lying about his participation in China's Thousand Talents Plan, which targets overseas scientists and researchers willing to bring their expertise to China in exchange for things like research funding and lab space.

Prosecutors had proposed setting bond at $1.5 million secured by Lieber's suburban Boston home. But Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler instead ordered Lieber to post a $1 million cash bond by next Thursday.

Lieber did not comment as he left the courthouse with his wife amid a throng of reporters after the hearing. His lawyers also declined to comment.

Lieber is required to give up his passport and disclose any foreign bank accounts and is barred from talking to any potential victims or witnesses in the case, among other restrictions. His wife will also hand over her passport after prosecutors raised concerns that she could move cash to another country.

Prosecutors say Lieber agreed to conduct research, publish articles and apply for patents on behalf of China's Wuhan University of Technology in exchange for $50,000 per month and about $150,000 in living expenses. He also received $1.5 million to establish a research lab at the Chinese university, authorities said.

Authorities say Lieber hid his involvement in the program from Harvard and told federal investigators in 2018 that he had never been asked to participate in the program.

Harvard officials said Tuesday that Lieber has been placed on administrative leave and that the school is "conducting its own review of the alleged misconduct."

Lieber has been at Harvard since 1991 and is described by his research group as a "pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology." He has also won prizes for growing huge pumpkins in the backyard of his Lexington home, including a 1870-pound (850-kilogram) pumpkin in 2014, ABC News reported at the time.

Lieber's arrest highlights the federal government's growing concern over China's efforts to steal U.S. research and technology.

Chinese recruitment programs such as the Thousand Talents Plan have been exploited by scientists who have downloaded sensitive research files before returning to China, filed patents based on U.S. research, lied on grant applications and failed to disclose money they had received from Chinese institutions, according to a congressional report issued last fall.

Federal prosecutors in Boston also announced charges this week against a researcher at Boston University, who is accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military. Yanqing Ye, who prosecutors say is a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army, lied about her military service to get into the U.S. and researched U.S. military projects and gathered information on two U.S. scientists for the Chinese military, authorities allege.

The FBI on Thursday released a wanted poster for Ye, who is believed to be in China.
 

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If the official numbers are accepted (I think the number is far higher) the infected numbers went from 200 on January 20 to almost 21,000 today, that seems to be just over a 100x increase in less than two weeks...

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Death toll from coronavirus rises to 427 as officials confirm more than 20,000 people worldwide have now come down with the illness

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 426, with the total number of cases worldwide now standing at almost 21,000, officials said on Tuesday. It comes after the country opened a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into tumbling financial markets and further restricted people's movement in hopes of containing the rapidly spreading virus and its escalating impact. Despite this, the death toll rose by a daily record 65 from Monday to Tuesday, the National Health Commission confirmed, up from 361 deaths and 17,205 confirmed cases previously. There are at least 151 cases in 25 other countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Britain.

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One of the problems with this flu is that it originated in a closed government country such as China. China was trying to keep a lid on the situation but that rarely ever works. Now everyone is scrambling to find an antivirus before this virus gets totally out of control.
 

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Wuhan medic says 'there are many more coronavirus deaths and infections than reported' because those who die while waiting to be tested are not considered victims of the virus

A Wuhan medic has said there are more deaths from coronavirus than reported, as patients are dying before they can even be tested for the virus. Hospital worker Jeisi Luo, not his real name, also made the shocking claim that there are far more cases than official figures suggest, because the waiting list for diagnosis is too long.

Mr Luo warned that the problem lies in an inability to carry out enough nucleic acid tests (NAT), which diagnose the virus. 'When preliminary tests determine that a patient has a lung sickness, the nucleic acid test which detects the virus, cannot always be carried out because the waiting list is too long,' he told DW. 'The patient is therefore not diagnosed.' He said medics were dealing with this crisis by 'prescribing medicine' and sending patients home to 'self-isolate'.

'The waiting rooms are full of people coughing,' he said. 'Healthy people who have to wait in these conditions risk infection.' He added that China's emergency 120 number is totally overwhelmed and that, with insufficient taxis to take everyone to hospital, some sufferers are walking there to receive treatment.

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Has China's biggest online news site really revealed 'real' coronavirus death figures? Screen grabs showing 24,589 death toll that sparked wild conspiracy theories 'could have been digitally altered'

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The latest allegation came after some people claimed to have spotted much higher statistics of coronavirus victims 'momentarily' on the country's largest online news site Tencent, sparking heated discussions on social media.

While some people said the staggering figures - one of them 80 times the official death tally - could have been leaked by journalists in defiance of Beijing's order; others argued the images was likely to have been edited as a smear campaign against China.

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The WHO keeps sticking up for China as the coronavirus gets worse and experts paint a far darker picture

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The centerpiece of China's response has been a sweeping quarantine in Wuhan and 15 nearby cities, locking down some 50 million people in the hope of preventing the spread.

However, according to a recent peer-reviewed study, it came too late. The study, published last week in The Lancet, modeled the progress of the outbreak and said the quarantine would have a "negligible" effect because it was not implemented until after the virus had spread to other cities.

It also suggested that official figures drastically under-represented the true scale of the outbreak. The study, which used a mathematical model, said that as of January 25 some 75,000 people in Wuhan likely had the virus, at a time when the official figure was around 760.

While some people are known to recover from the coronavirus, the Chinese Health Commission has warned that recovering once does not provide immunity.

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Dejan Corovic

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My eBay order from China, for innocuous piece of electronics, was just canceled at customs. It is not clear weather it was UK or Chinese customs. My best guess it was because of the virus.
 

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Police hunting man wearing "I have the coronavirus" sign who sprayed Lysol on Walmart produce

Police are looking for a masked man who walked into a Walmart in Illinois and sprayed disinfectant on items while wearing a sign that read: "Caution I have the coronavirus."

The Joliet Police Department said they were called to the store in the 1400 block of Route 59 shortly after 4 p.m. CST on Sunday.

Two men walked into the store and one donned a yellow surgical mask before spraying Lysol on produce, clothing and health and beauty items, police said in a news release. The man in the mask also wore the handmade sign on his back.

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By the time officers arrived at the store, the two men had left, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Some customers in the store who witnessed the incident confronted the men, Joliet police spokesman Sgt. Chris Botzum told the newspaper. He said police do not believe anyone was exposed to the deadly virus in the incident.

Tony Prokes, who was shopping in the Walmart at the time, told ABC7 that the man kept telling shoppers that he was "protecting" them.

"He was spraying all the produce with Lysol," Prokes told the station. "He was telling everyone the same thing, that he was protecting them from the virus."

Police said that Walmart estimated the damages at more than $7,300. The store also had cleanup costs of more than $2,400.

"We were made aware of the situation on Sunday involving the individual causing a disruption inside the store," a Walmart spokesperson told Newsweek. "That individual left the store prior to police being able to make contact and we've provided information to assist law enforcement."

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Police have released surveillance photos of the men and are appealing to the public in a bid to track them down. They said the men, who are described as white and thought to be in their 20s, were seen leaving the store in a white 2003 GMA Yukon registered in the village of Oswego. The Joliet Police Department have been contacted for additional comment.

Anyone with information about the suspects is urged to contact the Joliet Police Department at 815-724-3020 or call Detective Ryan Myers at 815-724-3056. Tips can be reported anonymously to the Will County Crime Stoppers at 800-323-6734 or online.

The incident comes as the death toll from the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak rose to almost 500. China's National Health Commission said 490 people have died from the virus in mainland China while the number of people infected has climbed to more than 24,000.

Outside mainland China, at least 180 cases have been confirmed, along with two deaths, in the Philippines and Hong Kong. Both patients had traveled from Wuhan, China, the center of the coronavirus outbreak.

The virus has spread to 23 other countries, including the U.S., where 11 people have tested positive for the virus in the states of Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Washington. The first case of human-to-human transmission in the U.S. was reported when a man in Chicago caught the disease from his wife after she had returned from Wuhan.
 

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It shouldn’t take too long to track down these dolts. I imagine they will be cooling their heels in a jail cell in short order. Unfortunately, I doubt these two have 25 cents between them. The store will be eating those damage costs.
 

pepe

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It's high time the Chinese authorities re educate the people concerned, the ones who still commit to the belief that by eating a certain part of an expensive animal will either protect or aid in desired health requirements.

More than a fair share of these viruses do originate from China and have done so back through the ages.

I am boycotting all Chinese products until they admit accountability.

Pangolin liver anyone ? No ok how about a wolf cub heart ? It will make you brave and ward of the jitters while possibly exposing the world to a deadly illness.
 
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