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I have never heard this term before.
What does it infect and what are the symptoms and side effects?
Is this just some made up name to sound scary in the media?
What does /sci/ think of this? Im sure theres doctors on here.
I think its just a new form of the flu and the media is calling it something scary to push more vaccines.
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>> No.11318975

>>11318967
what is wikipedia you lazy fuck

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11318990

>>11318975
Im asking /sci/ what their opinions are on it.
I read the .gov page on it and it seems dangerous but not as much as Ebola or TB.
>wikipedia
Youre the lazy fuck, I read the NIH page on it faggot. I cant discuss this with a page of non-responsive text.

>> No.11319005

>>11318990
we all think you're a lazy sob

>> No.11319007

>>11318967
It's the thing that's gonna kill you.

>> No.11319010

>>11318990
The problem isn't that it is the worst virus, but it spreads really easy. Like if you played Plague Inc. You start out with a really weak virus that spreads easy, then when everyone has it you mutate to something lethal.

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11319032

>>11319007
Psh.
>>11319010
Interesting, but is the reason why theyre having a fit about it because it is potentially very deadly?
Then again SARS and MERS are pretty bad too, is this probably just some mutated form of one of those?
>plague inc
My first thought when I read the news kek.

>> No.11319050

>>11319032
MERS and SARS are both coronaviruses.

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11319059

>>11319050
Both MERS and SARS ended up doing fuckall in the grand scheme of things, so is this new virus going to end up the same way? Basically a Chinese New Year flu season?

>> No.11319152

Didn't even read but post itt.

>> No.11319166

Can anyone be kind enough to explain me how diseases reoccur? If the epidemic ends with it being contained and everyone dying out, how does the disease coms back again? People keep saying the black plague/small pox can return, does this mean a new mutated disease that resembles black plague/small pox or does it mean the specific bacteria/virus that caused the disease is still out there, just hasn't infected anyone?

>> No.11319167

>>11319032
>but is the reason why theyre having a fit about it because it is potentially very deadly?
So far it doesn't seem to be, but it's a seemingly previously unknown illness so no one knows yet. We do know it'd be easy to spread.

>Then again SARS and MERS are pretty bad too, is this probably just some mutated form of one of those?
AFAIK probably not. It's at least known to be fairly distinct genetically from them.

>> No.11319198

>>11319166
it's called a natural reservoir. look up how ebola works. for the normal flu it's just birds and pigs and stuff