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Jeremy Kenton live on BayRadio discussing the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Jan 13, 2025
With more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus, countries around the world have announced they will be screening travellers. But should we be panicking?
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I live on Facebook we have got our
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medical correspondent here with us
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Jeremy Kenton hi Jeremy hello how are
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you I'm good exactly exactly what is
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this new virus that's going well the
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thing you've got to remember is it's
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that time of year when there are coughs
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and colds and chest infections and of
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course also we've got the norovirus
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which is that winter vomiting bug going
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on but there's something rather special
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happening in China unfortunately which
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is causing a lot of alarm and fear and I
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think we need to lay those fears and
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make people realize this is not as bad
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as they think it is all might be and
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it's a huge issue at the moment and the
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press are full of it and radio TV
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throughout the world are full of it and
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what it's all about is what's called a
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corona virus now corona viruses are
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viruses of unknown origin when not a
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lot's known about them and where they're
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new and this is a particular chest
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infection that seems to be affecting
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people in a certain area of China but
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the worrying thing is it's now spreading
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throughout the rest of the world there
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are cases in the Far East in Singapore
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and Malaysia and yesterday one case in
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the USA nothing here in Spain has been
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reported I looked just before we came on
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air the Chinese health authorities
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website because they've just published
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an update but it was in Chinese I
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couldn't read it because I can't leave
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Chinese community Chinese Mandarin yeah
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yeah okay bring the sign up yeah later
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later but when I last looked at their
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English site um earlier this morning
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there are now 600 reported cases in a
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particular City which is called rule and
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so then they're calling this the rule
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and virus now what's happening is very
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simple very straightforward people are
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presenting to their doctors with a cough
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signs of a cold but most importantly a
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high-tempo check now this weekend is a
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very special weekend do know what's
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happening this weekend Charlie's new you
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exactly I say you've got lots of Chinese
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from all over the world flying back to
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see their relatives so the issue isn't
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so much what's going to be happening now
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but what's going to be happening when
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these people are flying back nodes in
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their various destinations so America
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Britain Spain France Germany etc etc etc
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now Heathrow yesterday started
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monitoring people coming in from flock
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from flights from China so good for
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they're letting him off the plane
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they're checking the temperature they're
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walking around in biohazard suits with
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digital thermometers which they use from
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a distance they sort of fire is
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happening hmm and this is spending a
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huge amount of alarm because people are
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panicking and thinking oh my god I don't
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want to go to China I'm not even gonna
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get in he threw what are the risks of me
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catching this but it's not as bad as
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people are making out and it doesn't
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mean said that anybody who has been to
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the Far East or is a Far Eastern
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national has got this if they call
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because it's that time of year when you
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get coughs and clogs anyway are you
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scared this moment in time no and I know
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you've laid any fears I've had just it
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just in that face but it's apparently
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like a little bit like SARS look SARS is
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a corona virus but the term corona virus
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merely describes its appearance under
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microscopes it gives off this sort of
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when you look at the virus under an
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electron microscope it gives off this
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sort of starburst Corona light in the
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air hmm yeah
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so it's not beer but hey you know okay
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so you get the starburst effect under
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the microscope
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so all these viruses are called corona
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viruses but even the common cold is
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sometimes call the corona virus said
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people mustn't panic but the issue is
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going to be if you have a low immune
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system so the very young
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babies beep elderly those with a
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compromised immune system where they may
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have undertaken surgery and they're on
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various medications or if they're
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generally unwell or if they have a
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history of respiratory problems they're
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the people who are going to be packing
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risk as with any virus like this
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contracting a virus it doesn't mean to
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say that it is this Rulon's diseases
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they're not calling it it may just be a
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normal simple cough and cold but the
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risk is that if they are affected and
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there have been 17 deaths until this
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morning in one city but what's happened
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now is that city is now on lockdown
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they're not allowing anybody in and
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they're not allowing anybody out so the
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people in that city will then are
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panicking like mad and sales of face
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masks have gone through the roof and if
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you look at the medical suppliers
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profits they're gonna go soaring through
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the roof but apparently I was told by
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somebody earlier today who I spoke to
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that if you actually look at their stock
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market levels the suppliers of face
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masks their stock market value has gone
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soaring up today this could be a good
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opportunity for you give up as a radio
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presenter and start producing Facebook I
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thought I think I might have missed the
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boat on that already I've got a feeling
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I've got a thing but the unusual thing
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about this is is what's known as a
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zoonotic virus
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now what zoonotic means is that it's
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transferred between animals and fish to
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humans which makes it a bit unusual
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there was a similar outbreak that
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something back in 2012 in Saudi Arabia
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of respiratory infections chest
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infections which are actually being
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spread from camel
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well so it's that crossover between the
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animal kingdom and fish products to
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humans so the advice is like anything
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when you're preparing food and we're not
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getting food coming here to Spain from
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China I mean where do you buy your food
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you buy it
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well sometimes garlic's from China
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garlic's a natural antiseptic so it
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should actually ward off shooting said
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very good for chest infections and
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warding off vampires get a lot of those
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around you get a lot about pies in the
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happier area especially but the point is
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that because it suit notic it means it's
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that transmission from foodstuffs and
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also from being in contact with animals
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that may be infected so food preparation
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always wash your hands before and
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afterwards
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don't use tea towels and cloths use
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disposable paper tissue if you have got
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a cough or a cold and you're worried
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don't be overly alarmed unless you've
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been in contact with somebody who's just
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come back from without and really don't
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worry it's not going to be as bad as
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people say it is there will be an
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increase in the number of cases
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inevitably
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but usually these things burn out as the
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weather changes so it really isn't that
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much of a big deal the only issue is
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gonna be for people as I say who are
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traveling back from the Far East but
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there now as I said they the city will
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then is on lockdown the cases in
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Singapore are contained and the numbers
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are not significantly rising over the
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last 24 hours and this has been going on
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since the beginning of December so it
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hasn't just suddenly broken out this
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week it's been going on for over a month
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okay well Happy New Year you're not
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going to say that of the 9th of January
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I know I meant happy Chinese happy
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Chinese New Year's right I didn't get
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that zero okay well thanks for coming in
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and I'll try not to worry too much damn
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thang okay
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