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A study found evidence of a new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in a sample from a four-year-old boy from Milan in early December 2019, three months before the first coronavirus case was identified in Italy.
Canadian and Italian scientists 2019 September and 2020 between February, throat samples from 39 patients were analyzed. The sample of a four-year-old boy was positive. The boy had never traveled anywhere according to the information. – found in a study published by the American Center for Epidemiology (CDC).
The boy coughed and ran his nose on November 12, 2019.
A sample was taken on December 5, two weeks after symptoms began, to determine if she had measles. Based on this information and other evidence, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe could be postponed until late fall 2019, the researchers write.
The discovery is very important from an epidemiological point of view, as it expands the knowledge of experts about the route and temporal spread of the infection..
In the long term, the inadvertent spread of SARS-CoV-2 in northern Italy may, if only partially, explain the rapid spread and destructive effects of the coronavirus in Lombardy.
