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Infectious Diseases Booklet

by Karolina Leskovar Hržica

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Infectious Diseases
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COVID-19
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https://kongres-magazine.eu/2020/02/who-issues-covid-19-coronavirus-event-planning-guide/; 22/04/2020
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COVID-19
Some may say that it's a life changer, obviously they don't mean that in a positive way. It's not a good experience living through this, but there is a lesson to be learned from this. Similar things have happened in the past, for the same reasons… so why are they happening again?
Huanan seafood wholesale market, Wuhan, China
This market is one of many so called „wet markets“ in China. A place where animals are kept in small cages, stacked on one another. A place where they are slaughtered in front of people who buy them because they want their food to be as fresh as possible. Some animals that we all know about and consume are kept there like chickens and fish, but there are also some exotic animals. They come from different parts of this world, they are all kept close to each other, it's not like it should be in nature. All those animals are different, have different lifestyles, they adapt to the wilderness differently. They are stressed out, they are all put in this small space. Something is bound to happen. Is this where coronavirus was born?
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1842104/why-wild-animals-are-a-key-ingredient-in-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak; 22/04/2020
December 31st
At this time, I think all our lives were normal. We were keeping up with our routines. New Year’s Eve. We were all waiting for the New Year to come. For some that meant a new start and maybe for others a night where they could party and spend time with their loved ones. In China the doctors were treating a lot of new cases of pneumonia of an unknown cause. Just days later a new virus was identified, but there was no evidence that it was so easily spread by humans.
First known victim
A regular customer at the Wuhan market, like most of the people who came down with the virus. The victim was a 61-year-old man. His health status wasn't the best. He had tumors and chronic liver disease.
Spring festival – China's biggest holiday
This is a time when people travel across the country and visit other states. Hundreds of millions of people travel. It's estimated that Chinese passengers will take 3 billion trips in a period of 5 weeks. It's the perfect condition for the virus to spread, don't you think?
January 23rd, 10am, Wuhan, China
A lockdown in Wuhan, the epicenter city of the virus. On the first day of lock down there were 495 patients. There was a lack of medical workers and beds for the patients. On the second day of lockdown a new hospital started being built. It was built in less than 2 weeks and started taking in patients. But that hospital wasn't enough.
Li Wenliang - a silenced hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang; 22/04/2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/chinese-doctor-Li-Wenliang-coronavirus.html; 22/04/2020
Li Wenliang
He was a doctor. Back in late December he was alerting friends about a disease similar to SARS. A patient that was quarantined at Li's hospital had a coronavirus. After he sent the message, Wuhan health officials tracked him down and started questioning him about the information he was sharing. Instead of him being proclaimed a hero for discovering the disease this early on, he was contacted by the Wuhan police. He had to sign a document about how he was sharing rumors online and disrupted the social order. Days later the government was saying that there is no evidence of human to human transmission and they claimed that the outbreak was preventable and controllable. So, people in Wuhan just carried on living their lives as they always did. But it didn’t last for long… the number of infections started growing rapidly. Li wasn’t the only “whistle blower”. Several of them were silenced by the police. If somebody had listened to them maybe the virus would have been easier to contain.
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