"Community Isolation" should never be permitted with any illness. Isolating an entire community together only spreads the disease and does not isolate it. The ONLY way to isolate from further transmission is to secure THE INDIVIDUAL. That means if an entire cruise ship is isolated at sea or in port, or if an entire group of eighth graders are secluded together, the chances of the virus spreading is greater than if they are isolated individually until the course of their illness or wellness is secured.
February 22, 2020
Israeli authorities on Saturday (click here) ordered to put some 90 high school students in isolation after it transpired that the children might have come in contact with tourists from South Korea believed to be infected with coronavirus.
At least 30 of the students are understood to reside in the southern city of Beersheba while the other 60 are from the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Haim.
The move if part of the Israeli government's efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic in the Jewish state.
The isolation period can vary from case to case, yet is typically set as 14 days since potential exposure to the virus.
Earlier in the day the Health Ministry confirmed that nine South Korean pilgrims who earlier in the month toured Israel for one week have been diagnosed with coronavirus....
Isolating people together while a virulent disease exists with one or two of them only condemns the others to contract the disease even if they didn't have it before.
Each individual of a group should be in their own isolation room with negative pressure to insure the virus won't spread into the surrounding air. When a person is known to have the disease, they are already isolated and under treatment. If a person in isolation is proved to be well, then no harm will come to them just by being in the same room with someone infected. I have never witnessed such extreme fear in handling this outbreak. It is counter productive to ending the infection rate.
The Holy Men of the Middle East MUST call upon all their people to conduct themselves well in realizing the danger this virus has presented. Please don't allow the pilgrims to believe there is little to no danger.
Mardi Gras in the USA needs to be called off this year.
Each year during Mardi Gras, (click here) approximately 1.4 million visitors
take to the streets of New Orleans to participate in the city’s iconic Fat Tuesday parades and festivities. The annual celebration of excess and indulgence is observed everywhere from Rio de Janeiro to Venice, but New Orleans’s unique Mardi Gras customs (more on those below) make the city’s celebration particularly renowned....
February 25, 2020
By David D Kirkpatrick. Farnaz Fassihi
Religious pilgrims, (click here) migrant workers, businessmen, soldiers and clerics all flow constantly across Iran’s frontiers, often crossing into countries with few border controls, weak and ineffective governments and fragile health systems.
Now, as it struggles to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Iran is also emerging as the second focal point after China for the spread of the disease. Cases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates — even one in Canada — have all been traced to Iran, sending tremors of fear rippling out from Kabul to Beirut.
The Middle East is in many ways the perfect place to spawn a pandemic, experts say, with the constant circulation of both Muslim pilgrims and itinerant workers who might carry the virus. Iran’s economy has been strangled by sanctions, its people have lost trust in their government and its leaders are isolated from much of the world, providing little clarity about the extent of the epidemic.
Civil wars or years of unrest have shattered the health systems of several neighboring countries, like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. And most of the region is governed largely by authoritarians with poor track records at providing public transparency, accountability and health services....
The Middle East never took MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) seriously and now there is a more virulent strand of similar virus. The religious leadership must tell their followers this is a very dangerous time. They can frame it any way they want so long as the people realize there is a limit on their movement and sense of community.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) (click here)
is an illness caused by a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Most MERS patients developed severe respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath. About 3 or 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died....
