They’ll have to change the name to avoid stigma and offending camels.
Plently of pundits have been coughing away during coverage there. The world mixing + Aircon everywhere is an ideal place for things to spread
Turns out bending over for despotic Middle Eastern regimes has side effects.
They are talking about MERS, which is a properly nasty bug and kills a large percentage of people who get it
Thankfully it’s now been endemic in the region for about a decade, you have to be literally a camel handler to get it and even then it’s not that transmissible
Camel flu is not coming back home, it’s bullshit
It would already have done so with all the travelers for work years ago if it was going to and I doubt many fans went and spent a month working on camel farms to catch it
What people have is a cold, a mix of lots of air conditioning and bugs from all around the planet to produce a kick ass cold, probably some covid thrown in as well
But it’s not MERS-CoV
The world got lucky that that fucker doesn’t like to make itself easily transmissible, so farm
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They’ll have to change the name to avoid stigma and offending camels.
Plently of pundits have been coughing away during coverage there. The world mixing + Aircon everywhere is an ideal place for things to spread
Turns out bending over for despotic Middle Eastern regimes has side effects.
They are talking about MERS, which is a properly nasty bug and kills a large percentage of people who get it
Thankfully it’s now been endemic in the region for about a decade, you have to be literally a camel handler to get it and even then it’s not that transmissible
Camel flu is not coming back home, it’s bullshit
It would already have done so with all the travelers for work years ago if it was going to and I doubt many fans went and spent a month working on camel farms to catch it
What people have is a cold, a mix of lots of air conditioning and bugs from all around the planet to produce a kick ass cold, probably some covid thrown in as well
But it’s not MERS-CoV
The world got lucky that that fucker doesn’t like to make itself easily transmissible, so farm
Edit: link
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-(mers-cov)
God damnit, they really had to finger something didn’t they.
Trump if there is a global pandemic because of this and gets asked about it: WHY DON’T YOU ASK QATAR?