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The emerging corona virus has shown that two different strains can infect a person at the same time, according to “Reuters.”
Tests carried out in Brazil, the second most in the world in terms of the number of deaths from “Covid 19”, revealed the first “double” case of corona in two people, each of whom was infected with two strains of the virus at the Same time. hour.
And researchers from the University of “Vville” in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, came to this discovery, after conducting a study in 90 patients with “Covid 19”.
In the first case, a patient was confirmed to be infected with two Corona strains, which developed separately and were detected in two different Brazilian states, and were named “P.1 and P.2”.
As for the second patient, tests revealed that he was infected with the strains “P.2” that appeared in Brazil, and “B.1.91”, which was detected for the first time in Sweden.
What is relatively reassuring, according to the study, is that the symptoms of the two patients were mild, which were dry cough in the first case, cough, sore throat and headache in the second, while neither of them needed to be hospitalized. .
The results of the study were published on the medical site “medRxiv” but have not yet been published in a scientific journal and have not been peer-reviewed.
And the study’s principal investigator, Fernando Spelki, expressed his fear that this type of infection will lead to more mutations of the virus rapidly.
“This common infection can generate other groups (of the virus) and produce new mutations more quickly than it used to occur,” said Spalki, a virologist at the University of “Vville”, in statements published by “Reuters”. It would be another evolutionary path for the virus ”.
Mutations are a hallmark of viruses in general, but fears are increasing that other types of corona may emerge that may withstand the vaccines that the world is rapidly developing and producing.
Brazil is currently in the middle of the second wave of “Covid 19”, with more than a thousand deaths per day, and since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, more than 9 million people have been infected with the Corona virus in total . , while more than 225 thousand have died from the disease.
At least two different strains of the Corona virus appeared in the South American country, and experts believe this is due to the large number of infections out there.
Source: Ma’an News Agency
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