April 22 2013
Beijing, China – There was hope in the early days of the most recent outbreak of bird flu, an entirely new one this time, that things were isolated and that Chinese authorities had caught it early enough to stop the spread.
That is not the case as it turns out. While not quite an epidemic or worse, yet, the rapid spread of the disease, dubbed H7N9, had worried officials in that country and others around the world. Not only has the disease now infected more than one hundred people and killed twenty, it is appearing in areas no one expected, indicating that perhaps the thing has already spread.
Luckily, at least for everyone but people living in China, it does not appear that it has yet spread outside the borders of that country. Of course with so many people in China and so many of them travelling all over the world on a regular basis it is very likely that the disease will start to appear in other places because, clearly, they don’t have nearly as much control over it as they once believed they had.
China has called in international experts to help deal with the disease, both in treatment and in isolation, because they are clearly ill-equipped to deal with it by themselves and that has allowed it to spread like crazy.
It’s not clear if that international aid has come in time or if it is just too darned late to prevent this thing from spreading all over the world and killing thousands, perhaps millions, perhaps all of us.
World Health Organization officials are reportedly optimistic, for now at least, that this disease will not bring about the end of the human race.
“Clearly this disease has become more than anyone thought it ever would and that sucks. I mean they said they had it under control and we trusted them and for good reason. They have diseases all the time so you would think they had learned something from all that but obviously they have not, or at least they haven’t learned enough,” said Scrape TV Health analyst Rebecca Phelps. “Now we are all at risk. I mean it’s not like this disease only affects people in China. We are all humans and all have the same basic makeup so we are all in danger. That’s something the Chinese government didn’t really take into consideration I think.”
It’s not clear yet if the Chinese planned to allow this thing to spread and cause panic the world over.
“They do seem earnest in trying to stop this thing but that doesn’t mean they will actually be able to stop it or even that they are making the effort they say they are making. They say it over and over again but they are also failing over and over so maybe we can’t trust them for any reason,” continued Phelps. “I just hope that they can keep it over there and away from the rest of us. They may be okay with people dying but I doubt that is the case for the rest of the world. I’m pretty sure than most people would like to avoid dying from the Chinese bird flu. I’m pretty confident of that in fact.”
Everyone who has been infected thus far is Chinese but that likely will not hold. http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Health/pages-3/China-starting-to-realize-that-this-bird-flu-thing-really-is-out-of-control-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side-2013-04-22.html#.UXXNfLVwe5I