What's the difference between Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS?

[ronki23]

All of these viruses have come before Coronavirus and people still travelled around the world. Swine Flu in particular was far worse. I don't think travel was affected by Swine Flu- the lack of travel was by the global recession

 

[Altfish]

I stand to be corrected but Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS are all viruses; Mad Cow isn't

 

[Subduction Zone]

I stand to be corrected but Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS are all viruses; Mad Cow isn't

Yes Mad Cow is a prion. It is not at all contagious between people, unless one is into cannibalism.

 

[Revoltingest]

Reminds me of an old joke.
Which one doesn't belong in this list....
AIDS
Gonorrhea
A condominium in Flint, MI

Spoiler: Answer

Gonorrhea because it's curable.

 

[leov]

I stand to be corrected but Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS are all viruses; Mad Cow isn't

Related:Chronic wasting disease - Wikipedia

 

[ronki23]

What caused the reduction in tourism to Mexico- recession or swine flu?

 

[ronki23]

Foot and mouth disease?

 

[ChristineM]

What's the difference between Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS?

First thing i noticed was that they are all spelt differently

Bird flu is an influenza virus common in birds that can be caught by humans
Swine flu is an influenza virus originally caught by people who worked with pigs
Sars is a virus causing acute respiratory distress, it isn't a flu but a pneumonia
Mad cow or BSE is a brain disorder caused by a prion

 

[ronki23]

Influenza infects and kills more than Coronavirus

I'm not going to South Korea and Japan this year not only because of Coronavirus but because the company I want to go with didn't renew their ATOL. I give up

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

All of these viruses have come before Coronavirus and people still travelled around the world. Swine Flu in particular was far worse. I don't think travel was affected by Swine Flu- the lack of travel was by the global recession

Well, mad cow isn't a virus, for a start...

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Influenza infects and kills more than Coronavirus

I'm not going to South Korea and Japan this year not only because of Coronavirus but because the company I want to go with didn't renew their ATOL. I give up

Raw numbers don't give the whole picture. Coronavirus has, so far, killed a couple hundred people, and influenza indeed kills tens of thousands each year. However, the overall fatality rate for CV is shaping up to be around 3%, whereas flu, iirc, is something like 0.01% for an average seasonal flu. If an average flu killed 3% of those infected that would be millions of people. If CV became as wide spread as an average seasonal flu, it would be serious stuff. Not Black Death taking out a third of Europe level, but still serious enough to want to avoid.

 

[HonestJoe]

All of these viruses have come before Coronavirus and people still travelled around the world. Swine Flu in particular was far worse. I don't think travel was affected by Swine Flu- the lack of travel was by the global recession

People are travelling around the world today. There are restrictions to China specifically and probably other precautionary measures but the majority if international travel will continue regardless.

Different outbreaks of different infectious diseases will always lead to different reactive and preventative measures depending on the nature of the cause and spread of the outbreak at the time of decisions being made. With coronavirus still mostly limited to parts of China, restricting travel to and from there is a viable and reasonable measure. In other situations, such as recent Avian Flu and Swine Flu outbreaks, circumstances have been different – either the incubation period and infection rates or the illness already spreading to multiple places make general travel restrictions unnecessary or ineffective. That doesn’t mean that there weren’t specific measures and other checks and procedures in place during those incidents. It’s very much a case-by-case thing.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

 

[ronki23]

Swine Flu is much worse than Coronavirus.

How bad are Bird Flu and MERS in comparison?

 

[ronki23]

How do these viruses spread? Because they often come from live food markets but not from pet shops.

Are they meant to vaccinate/give antibiotics to the animals before they're sold as pets?

Is it because people are eating the meat uncooked?

 

[ronki23]

Ebola?

 

[ronki23]

I was told diseases like Covid 19, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu and Ebola are from coming into contact with wild animals such as with live food markets. But if you don't necessarily have to eat the animals then wouldn't zoos, farms and pet shops get it too ? People have to feed and clean the animals so wouldn't zoo handlers, farmers and pet shop workers/ pet owners get it too ?

 

[McBell]

What's the difference between Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Swine Flu and SARS?

First thing i noticed was that they are all spelt differently

Bird flu is an influenza virus common in birds that can be caught by humans
Swine flu is an influenza virus originally caught by people who worked with pigs
Sars is a virus causing acute respiratory distress, it isn't a flu but a pneumonia
Mad cow or BSE is a brain disorder caused by a prion

More specifically, SARS is a corona-virus

 

[McBell]

I was told diseases like Covid 19, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu and Ebola are from coming into contact with wild animals such as with live food markets. But if you don't necessarily have to eat the animals then wouldn't zoos, farms and pet shops get it too ? People have to feed and clean the animals so wouldn't zoo handlers, farmers and pet shop workers/ pet owners get it too ?

Take for example the the CIVID-19 virus.
It started out as a bat virus.
Then it mutated so that it could be transmitted from bats to humans.
Then it mutated so it could be transmitted from human to human.
Now there is some speculation (please not that word here) that it can spread from human to cat and human to dog.
Again, please note it is being SPECULATED to cats and dogs at this time.

 

[ronki23]

So why didn't we lock down for swine flu ? Covid-19 is awful but I don't get why we haven't locked down for previous pandemics : another example is MERS