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Q: Will a Dengue fever pandemic make you leave Guangdong?
6000 cases in Guangdong reported today on CCTV news...
9 years 33 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Anybody got the link for this? I couldn't find anything in China Daily.
China Mobile sent out SMS warnings last week. Schools and kindergartens have been informing about it. But isn't it jus tlike any other flu, some die some don't ?
Scandinavian:
btw Andy, look up the word "Pandemic", you are using it wrong
airyk:
Well, it is a lot like the flu, but much more sever. Dengue is to the flu, like a gun is to a rock. Both can kill you, but one kills a hell of a lot more of the people it infects. Even advanced medical care you have a 1% chance of dieing. If you get no care at all the number would be 100%. But most people get some level of care, someone to give them water and salts (without these you die). Because most people get care the world wide fatality for dengue is only around 10%. The numbers going higher in poorer countries and for the children and elderly.
Source: I just had dengue. It sucked. I didn't die.
Scandinavian:
Dengue only kills about 25000 worldwide per year. Normal flu is a lot more.
How long time did it take to get over Dengue for you. ?
airyk:
From start of finish 10 days, but I am young and healthy, 10 days is about the best case. Flu and Dengue mostly kill the old and young. Your right about the flu being deadly, but I think our cultures have come to accept it will kill you, where as a mosquito...shouldn't kill you? Anyway it hurts a lot more then the flu, it's like your bones being ground into a powder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929067/
Dengue is an acute emerging infectious disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and has become a serious global public health problem. In mainland China, a number of large dengue outbreaks with serious consequences have been reported as early as 1978.
Many more reports on Yahoo-gle 'Dengue fever in Guagndong'
If you have a VPN
I just had Dengue fever, it sucks, it's painful, but I didn't die, and you won't likely either. As long as you drink plenty of fluids you should be ok.. Here is blog post I just wrote about it. http://space.echinacities.com/229424/blog/spacenodedetail/2915
airyk:
Maybe GZ maybe Manila. Both are having the same problems right now and I was in both a week before.
No, i wont. Im not Dengue with this place yet. Hahaha ooooh! Get it? Get it? No? Not funny? Ok....
