murchr wrote:masukuma wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:masukuma wrote:Senegal has reported it's first case - a French citizen who has lived in Senegal for 2 years.
Let's take a bet... I think it's a matter of 'when' not 'if' - thus...where will our first case of Corona come from? I say - Italy!! some tourist/resident heading for North Coast will be our first case.
Yesterday's local news was claiming that some Germans at the coast tested positive.
It's a matter of time before this strand of RNA makes it to our shores. Maybe it's already here and we are largely asymptomatic people. Once some old people with cardiovascular issues die of it - we attribute it to some random thing (maybe even witchcraft or evil eyes).
Actually, it could be spreading. How many Kenyans go to get checked because of homa or 'malaria'? People could be self medicating as usual while passing it along. But hoping for the best.
I don't think it is spreading. In severe cases patients end up drowning in their own mucous. At that stage the sick will be begging to be rushed to hospital. It would have been picked up in some hospital by now if it was spreading.
Most likely corona will behave like the spanish flu. Mild at first then disappears and then reappears in a more dangerous wave after it adapts and learns how to attack african cells.
2nd wave of the spanish flu is what devastated africa. Look for the you-tube on spanish flu that thing was deadly. A patient would show symptoms at 4 pm and be dead by 10 pm. It passed, this too shall pass