Brucellosis Scare thread

[bing101]

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-11-06/explainer-how-thousands-in-china-got-infected-by-brucellosis-in-one-single-outbreak


https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20201106_04/


https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/11/6/doh-monitoring-brucellosis-cases-.html


All I can say here is that lets hope it is not going to be a pandemic in 2021. Sadly I can see it going in that direction though.

[mgk920]

Will this become a world where a 'permanent pandemic' will be the new normal....



Mike

[kphoger]

Will this become a world where a 'permanent pandemic' will be the new normal....

Depending on how you want to define things, that's already the perpetual state of civilization.

The only reason influenza, for example, isn't declared a pandemic every single year is that it's seasonal.  Other than that, it too is something that occurs "worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people [A dictionary of epidemiology, 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001]."

In 2009, the only thing that really set H1N1 flu apart as a "pandemic" is that the widespread transmission of it in the southern hemisphere occurred during the non-flu season.

[Scott5114]

Doubtful. From the article, it seems like there's already a vaccine for it. Also, it's bacterial, rather than viral, so that opens up the possibility of treating it with antibiotics. So this would likely be easier to curb if it were headed toward pandemic territory.

[hbelkins]

There was some sort of novelty or parody song years ago that contained the line, "all the cows have brucellosis." Can't remember the song title or artist, and Google isn't helpful.

[SectorZ]

At some point I start doubting that these things occur naturally in that country.

They not only hate many other countries, but they hate a lot of their own people. That's a recipe for disaster in a country that can get away with stuff inside its borders with zero consequences.

If anything, anyone reading the news stories that thinks milk pasteurization is some vast conspiracy might wake up from their anti-science coma.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

There was some sort of novelty or parody song years ago that contained the line, "all the cows have brucellosis." Can't remember the song title or artist, and Google isn't helpful.

Your line in question comes about 58 seconds into the video

[Bruce]

Ah, the old "name the discovery after the discoverer" comes back to haunt another name.

[mgk920]

And then when a vaccine is released in quantities that allow for wide use, the Virus™ mutates into a form that renders it useless.

Then what?



Mike

[Scott5114]

And then when a vaccine is released in quantities that allow for wide use, the Virus™ mutates into a form that renders it useless.

Then what?



Mike

This is a bacterium, not a virus. Totally different kinds of infection.

[hbelkins]

There was some sort of novelty or parody song years ago that contained the line, "all the cows have brucellosis." Can't remember the song title or artist, and Google isn't helpful.

Your line in question comes about 58 seconds into the video

Yes, and I had the line slightly wrong. "The cattle all have brucellosis" was the line in the Zevon song.