Find Out How to Corona Virus Damages Human Cells - The coronavirus which is currently a trending topic all
over the world is actually not completely a new virus in Wuhan, China.
Because, in 2019 this virus already exists with the name
nCoV (Novel Coronavirus) and was detected again at the end of 2019.
This corona virus is spherical surrounded by sticky
proteins with thorny shapes that appear on all surfaces.
These sticky protein spikes come out from the end, just
like a crown that has a 'spike' on the side, so it's called corona.
This protein helps the virus bind itself to cells to gain
access to stem cells (host cells).
The corona virus is also known to be easy to mutate and
can move from animals to humans. Therefore, this virus is also easily spread
from one human to another.
Then, how can an animal virus infect humans? Basically,
animals that have been infected by the coronavirus, the cells in these animals
will contain special proteins.
So, the first thing to do is that the corona virus binds
itself to a special protein cell and then invades the cell. If we share the
surface of cell receptors that are also used by bats or other animals, then it
is possible for the virus to invade our body cells.
Scientists in China have sorted the genome of the
Coronavirus Novel and made it 'available' to the global community of
scientists.
The genome of the new corona virus 96% was identified
from the corona virus present in bats, which bats themselves are the original
source of this virus.
Unfortunately, genetic analysis cannot pinpoint animals
with corona virus species moving to humans. 2019-nCoV itself is the seventh
corona virus that has infected humans. EBOLA, SARS, and MERS are some examples
of cases that have infected humans from the same family before.
Corona virus can also be found in other animals, such as
camels, cats, bats, and cattle / cows. Corona virus itself is very easy to
spread just like MEASLES, while other viruses do not.
SARS alone has killed at least 10% of the total number of
humans who have been infected. While the corona virus managed to kill 3% of
those who were confirmed to have been infected.
Based on the genetic code in hand, scientists are now
able to begin developing a vaccine without having to research by taking a
corona virus sample and plan to be tested in the next 3 months.
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