Brought to you by one hundred point: nine canoe, fm community radio from the halliburton highlands visit, canoe, fm dot, com for more welcome than medical matters at the bottom. Welcome aboard again end. I understand we're gonna talk about something that is very very prominent today and that is corona virus. I think we should touch base because it brings up a lot of interesting points that i think is important for listeners. The actual reality is that another, like virus hitting us and halbert, who is very low, which is nice, but also reminds us that we need to be diligent and village and about sort of our protecting ourselves against infection and reducing the risk to ourselves and to our neighbours and friends from getting illness so to the crown of viruses. Sir again, another one was reminders that we need to be mindful that these infections can spread quickly and potentially could be very dangerous. Now, how did they spread? That's what gets me like? They wear these masks. So does it, if you say, get close to me and do one of these and i inhale it- is that which comes from or where, as i got out, his crony viruses respiratory virus now across the virus, that type of viruses more often found in their livestock, and i can spread amongst livestock. We know that occasionally a strain will spread to humans so often where livestock, inhuman, sir intermingle, is often where they sing start and in china. There still sort of a tradition to have your on chickens and pigs and things even in urban environments. So there's a lot of shred of mixed between animals and in humans, and when you have billions of people in your country, they things can now start anywhere the odds of starting out our higher. So once it spreads to a human that human would develop a cold, a flu could be something minor, but once you start feeling symptoms and for some viruses even the day before and then not have been totally clear with a groan of irish, but often people start spreading the virus a day before they get sex. Gipsy things moving, and certainly the first few days of illness and its, and these are respiratory viruses. So you coffee, sneezer blow your nose breathing into somebody's face. You can be shutting the viral particles which they inhale and they could hinder the rest re track and then it starts to multiply awe and that multiplication process they say will take tend to. Fourteen days before you actually start developing symptoms. Some. So that's why we're sort awaiting that's why these people are being quarantine for two weeks now. So you ve been quarantine for two weeks and don't develop symptoms because you might have been in an area where somebody was breathing coughing sneezing. You should be ok, but if you drop symptoms during those fourteen days, ok, while you're at high risk we're gonna start testing for corona virus again, if you ve been exposed, zaka be until close to the end of that incubation phase of the viruses replicating your system and then eventually, as it has developed symptoms, it shed. So you might say of my nose is about sniffily today that could be first symptom. She, my throes of scratching today. You know that i eat something funny or high. Yesterday, i'm coming down with coal, so you're body's prob start and shed virus at that point, so people are often still up and adder and active in going to them the radio station, the grocery store going to school, going to work and potentially could share their germs, and- and i mentioned that a respiratory effect, so you're coughing sneezing, but you leave the room, but maybe it's on your desk somebody's picked up your cell phone. Some he's grabbed the door knobs that user coughed into your hand and grabbed the door. Narbonnais come right behind you and grabbed the doorknob, and then they go off beneath their lunch and is gonna get into their system. Just some really. It sticks on things rather than it doesn't live long, but the lives long enough that it becomes a snowball effect. So if you go to work and expose six people in those six people go home and they expose their family and then their kids go off to school and exposed to thirty kids and starts going all over the land. Rovers. That's why you know the chinese have taken such drastic measures to shut down the travel and countries are now starting to not let planes from china to land them, because they can't snowball very quickly, virtually no again heighten awareness. People are sort of being respectful. There was a story of a girl in london ontario who travel more hornback, tron burn she worm and ninety five mass all the way from china to the london and she dan did not show any symptoms yet, but she knew tat she might get restless spreading it before she dropped symptoms, for she warn and ninety five mask so that she wouldn't be spewing out and coughing it out now that that is a good question. What's this, ninety five mask gerard their various grades, these various grades of mass. So so what you want to do is shut other viral particles which are very tiny so an end. Ninety five mask has very small ports to allow oxygen through that won't allow viral particles, through some of your basic surgical mass, have gaps around the side in and ass, he can still inhale outdoor air or that the poorest in the masters are big enough to allow viruses and if i'm going into an operating room, i'm not worried about viruses and worry about blood, spiders and anne, and things coming off. My breath that i want a sort of filter for those so size of water particles which are much bigger than viral particles. Ok, so now you ve got the mask on right and you finished with it now. What what are they? Who was the man? Why you put it in the garbage? The virus will die overtime and assuming than people are going to ruin your garbage. It should be fine and make sure that when you take off your wash your hands really well what you should be doing all the time: raggedy afterglow, the bathroom after using door, knobs reserve in public spaces wash your hands before you eat before you prepare food come into san plan yeah exactly so so. Public health is sort of got some lessons out. Therefore, so, if you feel sick, what do you do? Well, i've been to china. Some risk of having corona virus is small, but maybe i should call my doctor's office so rather than just showing up at the immerse apparent rather new, showing up your doctor's office with a fever with a cold with sniffles collins's notices. What's going on and in our office or probably most doctors offices. In turn, i was, i will have you having travel recently have been exposed. Anybody who has been travelling recently, j just stay at home, will contact the health unit and give your direction has maybe your local mercy to permanent, already overwhelmed and all the isolation rooms are taken up. Maybe you need to go to the next community. We want you there, the next community be analyzed for run a virus or no use. I like your low risk. We want shadow paid particular attention you having any troubles, breathing watch your temperature having troubles eating and keeping food down or copious diarrhea. You not having those symptoms, then go ahead and have some chicken noodle soup and has some time ah and stay at home and try not to leave home. So you not spreading the virus rather than going to the emerge in spreading through the emergency department or the family doctors office or stopping of a store in your way to the doctor's office. Now just stay home and if you do have those symptoms, call us back and well directed to their bright location. So, ah forgetting the habit of doing that, i think, is very important. Exactly now here's a here's, a woman or a man, who's got or five children and all of a sudden he gets that right now what he's got almost killed his wife? What are they do? Just take the whole family and isolate them or what that's? What they're doing now in china and that's why they did during sars in canada is busy. People stayed home and they would arrange for family or friends to bring groceries perhaps to their home and leave them on the front doorstep rather than walking in and being aspire to. These things are wearing and ninety five mask now, so you know again if he were to call our offices. They look at me. I'm having these symptoms. We say: ok, well, you're pretty low risk, but when you do come to your office, it will be some mass by the door. Please put one on, please put a mask on for your safety in and hours and then proceed to the walk in area. The czech area will directly to a room so that you not sitting in the waiting room, pang and sneezing running at you with a mask on. Let's take some precautions, so will will direct the patient's state. We, if you, if you dont, know you're coming, then you ve already serve, walked up to the receptionist and coughed and said i'm feeling sick. What do i do, but should in turn around get a mask on and won't get your interim quickly. So you know the corona virus again. This version of corona viruses oppose the sars at this point, does not appear to be as deadly in a fatality rate is two percent, and i was as they only two percent two percent is still a significant number, but not as significant as sars. They die, die, die or risk of death with sars was very high. I'm diners twenty thirty percent. I think, if you that sars years, your odds of dying from m were really high with, fortunately, with the novel corona viruses come out seems to be about a two percent and is going to be mainly the elderly or young children. I dont have well developed immune systems now. Having said all that right is a knock and laughing it can take forward. What do you do you're? So at the moment there is, there is no treatment for robbers, design, protection, prevention of car buyers, except some of these public health measures that i have mentioned, staying away from it wearing a ninety five mask not going out if you feel sick, while the other people taking responsibility to decide as well. So there is no virus there're vaccine. They are working on a vaccine that might cover all run a virus. I suppose the influenza, which tends to morph and change the colonel virus, doesn't seem to evolve as quickly as influenza that, when it does comets officer can be a very devastating type of disease. So i hope that our public health officials continue do a good job monitoring this isolating people and people being responsible and and and so far it again. In the cases we ve had an in canada, people have been very responsible to make sure that they reported to authorities whether symptoms before they even develop. Symptoms and copper cases occur from london. There's the gentleman in toronto. His wife had no symptoms, but she certain isolated herself and then develop symptoms, so people taking responsibility so that very important lessons- and let me just throw something else at yourself. So, let's go back to influenza to influenza is a very prominent disease and in canada, every winter over twelve thousand people will be admitted to hospital with influenza. While right now is about twelve thousand cases, corona virus in china and that's billions of people will have thirty something million. An over twelve thousand are being emitted and of that of about thirty five hundred, so over three thousand deaths attributed to influence in canada, while sir we're getting all worked up about this corona virus, when we ve actually got this influenza virus flying around ontario at this time of year in the winter months december january february and march, that is just if not more deadly than the corona virus wont because it's so prevalent we sort of become luba complacent without. But i think these these things were discussing now now there is a vaccine, so get immunize against influenza, reduce your risk of getting at giving it to your kids, giving it to elderly family members younger to battling it on yeah unwell and at high risk to be one of these. Thirty five hundred deaths in canada than those numbers have been pretty costs from the last five years. I i wouldn't checked and looked adamant and that, like every winter, it's about thirty five hundred for the last four or five years and can have any idea of very high numbers, and if you are sick, don't run to the hospital don't run to the doctor's office. Call first and say: look i'm feeling sick! These are my symptoms. Should i stay home? Should i come in and ontario yonah health healthcare ontario is tell how that's what it's called. They have a voice, sir system, where you can call in and speak to a nurse who will give you direction as to whether you are somebody should go to the hospital. Not so yes tell a health ontario, which you can look up online and get there one eight hundred number and speak to a health professional. What should i do in this situation? But again, if you can't breathe, if you're having difficulties breathing, if you're having difficulty keeping down food or fluids in your getting dehydrated or other symptoms that year and distress, then you go to the hospital but again call ahead or call him ass to come and get you they ve got the proper protection for isolation to get you there. Let's look after ourselves and let this corona virus be a lesson to all of us. Yeah. Well, that's very good information. I am sure everybody follows those rules and regulations. We will save life will save lives, that's what it comes down to very it s. The point thanks very much doktor bottom. We appreciate that information. You're welcome have a great day, let's head for this addition of medical matters. If you have a topic you'd like us to discuss, email us, a medical matters, canoe affirm that cod they want do our best to discuss an hour later programme. 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