Despite the fact that the virus is new, scientists from around the world have already learned a lot about it.
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American scientists launched a vaccine against coronavirus in test production
Coronavirus has already infected more than 20 thousand people around the world. Due to the enormous spread of the world health organization today, February 4, officially announced the outbreak of coronavirus epidemic. What is known about this new strain of the virus, which has already taken 427 lives?
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1. A new look. The Chinese species of coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, is a completely new strain. In total, there are 39 species of coronavirus, 7 of them can attack people, and the rest are dangerous only for animals.
2. Ways of transmission. Coronavirus is given by airborne droplets. And you can get infected even when the patient has no pronounced symptoms. Chinese 2019-nCoV virus infects the lungs, causing severe pneumonia.
3. Symptoms. At the moment, it is reliably known that the main symptoms of the disease are dry cough and fever. And if earlier it was believed that only a strong fever indicates a disease, now doctors diagnose coronavirus in people even with a temperature of 37.5 ° C.
4. Where did the virus come from? The infection occurred due to the bat. In the animal’s body, the virus mutated and became infectious to humans. Why it happened so far, scientists do not know.
5. Is there a vaccine? At the moment, scientists from the American city of San Diego came closest to the development of an effective vaccine. They launched it into test production. Clinical trials in humans are planned by summer. By the way, this is an unprecedented case of such a rapid development of the vaccine. At the same time, scientists from China, France, Russia and Australia are working on the vaccine.
6. There is no immunity. Patients with coronavirus – and there are 665 of them today – have no immunity. This means that they can get sick again. This was reported today by Chinese doctors. This fact indicates that coronavirus can mutate further.
7. Treatment.Successful treatment of Chinese coronavirus depends on the severity of the disease. But good results come from drugs that are used against HIV and flu. In addition, Chinese doctors managed to extract the patient from the other world by applying an experimental method of treatment called EXMO (extracorporeal oxygenation, i.e., oxygen saturation of the blood).
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