Much more contagious … sinister details of the “new Crown”!

With the passage of long months of its spread, terrorizing humanity, killing more than a million lives, the emerging coronavirus increased the confusion of scientists due to the new wave that is now hitting regions of the world in a crazy way, until that a recent study found that the epidemic had “dangerously” mutated to take shape. Which has now spread to Europe and the United States.

In details, the study, which was prepared in cooperation between the University of North Carolina in the United States and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Tokyo in Japan, stated that the virus now sweeping Europe and the United States is “very more contagious “than the Wuhan strain, which scientists call the” original strain. “

The advanced virus is reportedly spreading 10 times faster than the one known to Wuhan, China, Corona’s birthplace, late last year, before it spread to parts of the world.

The results published by the American scientific journal “Science” also considered that the protein on the surface of the virus that gives it the ability to adhere to the cells of the victims has changed a lot, which potentiated the potential of the microorganism to infect a greater number of people, and significantly expanded its spread.

And what is meant by protein is what appears as bumps on microscopic images of the Corona virus and gives it its distinctive coronary shape.

He did not understand the impact of the boom!
However, researchers have not yet fully understood the effect of the mutation on the characteristics of the virus.

The study revealed that the modified version of the virus has been spreading since last March and was first detected in Japan, noting that mutations are among the distinguishing characteristics of viruses in general.

After experiments performed on mice, lead researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, professor of virology at the University of Tokyo Institute of Medical Sciences, revealed that the mutation greatly increased the virus’s ability to spread, considering that the mutation may explain why that the virus spread uncontrollably in the United States and Europe, as opposed to China, which almost completely recovered from that.

Not just humans!
Fortunately, the researchers’ data indicated that the vaccines currently in development would continue to be effective against the mutations.

However, the other principal investigator, professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, USA, Ralph Barrick, emphasized the need to track and understand the consequences of “new virus mutations.”

Barrick said such mutations appear constantly and can lead to an increase in disease severity, transmission opportunities and the variety of host organisms, not just humans, as well as the immunity caused by the vaccine.

Vaccines are on the horizon
In addition, despite this study and what the epidemic is doing these days, next year may show signs of a breakthrough in the fight against the Corona virus, which has so far infected more than 54 million people in all the world.

After Moderna and Pfizer announced the success of a vaccine they are working on against the emerging virus at a very high rate, millions of people looked forward to the next few days.

Anthony Fauci, director of the American Institute of Infectious Diseases, considered that when you have two vaccines like these two, which have been shown to be more than 90% effective, “technology no longer has to” provide more evidence.

The alliance of US companies Pfizer and the German company Bayontek announced last week that its experimental vaccine against Covid-19, which is based on the same technology, has been shown to be 90% effective in preventing infection by the deadly virus. .

While the vaccine developed by the American company Moderna showed 94.5% effectiveness in protecting people from Corona, according to provisional results.