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Coronavirus fears have produced much chatter since the 2019-2020 outbreak was taking shape and global dimensions, and it's the first serious 'outbreak' since the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Coronavirus, like SARS, originated in Asia, and that's expected since the two viral diseases have very similar biochemical signatures and genetic fingerprint. Like SARS, the Coronavirus leads to an invasion of the respiratory system and weakens the entire immune system and requires multiple kinds of treatment. SARS was responsible for numerous deaths, and the Coronavirus is getting large now as well.
SARS treatment involved multiple antiviral medicines and containment of infected patients requiring ventilation isolation. Coronavirus is similar and is being studied by scientists and is therefore obviously being addressed by both the CDC and WHO (just as SARS was!). Neither SARS nor Coronavirus has any known cure but containment and supportive care is very possible.
Since the Coronavirus requires multiple kinds of approaches for dissection, scientists are exploring various protein-treatment methods to protect the ACE2 enzyme in the human body that the Coronavirus invades. Scientists studying the Coronavirus have learned its origins may be similar to that of SARS, identifying bats/animals as the original hosts.
The Coronavirus leads to fever and nausea and other side-effects including blood in the mucus and membranes. Scientists believe a proper study of useful antiviral medicines including the popular *ribavarin* which has also been linked to AIDS symptoms treatment studies will yield insights into the best course for multi-medication treatments. Of course diligent/objective measures for containment of infected individuals would invlove, similar to SARS, protective chambers where respiration and oxygenation can be purified and locally isolated and hence controlled!
This is a real dilemma requiring the teamwork of many and the sanity of many more, so fortunately there's been much news and information made available to the public on TV and on the Internet.
If the Coronavirus becomes a terrible pandemic with no method of containment, we might start remembering the eerie 20th Century days of Ebola!
Tests continue which is why sanity and calmness are really the top public prescriptions, and news reporters on CNN and BBC seem to be continually saying, "Stay tuned."
Coronavirus, like SARS, originated in Asia, and that's expected since the two viral diseases have very similar biochemical signatures and genetic fingerprint. Like SARS, the Coronavirus leads to an invasion of the respiratory system and weakens the entire immune system and requires multiple kinds of treatment. SARS was responsible for numerous deaths, and the Coronavirus is getting large now as well.
SARS treatment involved multiple antiviral medicines and containment of infected patients requiring ventilation isolation. Coronavirus is similar and is being studied by scientists and is therefore obviously being addressed by both the CDC and WHO (just as SARS was!). Neither SARS nor Coronavirus has any known cure but containment and supportive care is very possible.
Since the Coronavirus requires multiple kinds of approaches for dissection, scientists are exploring various protein-treatment methods to protect the ACE2 enzyme in the human body that the Coronavirus invades. Scientists studying the Coronavirus have learned its origins may be similar to that of SARS, identifying bats/animals as the original hosts.
The Coronavirus leads to fever and nausea and other side-effects including blood in the mucus and membranes. Scientists believe a proper study of useful antiviral medicines including the popular *ribavarin* which has also been linked to AIDS symptoms treatment studies will yield insights into the best course for multi-medication treatments. Of course diligent/objective measures for containment of infected individuals would invlove, similar to SARS, protective chambers where respiration and oxygenation can be purified and locally isolated and hence controlled!
This is a real dilemma requiring the teamwork of many and the sanity of many more, so fortunately there's been much news and information made available to the public on TV and on the Internet.
If the Coronavirus becomes a terrible pandemic with no method of containment, we might start remembering the eerie 20th Century days of Ebola!
Tests continue which is why sanity and calmness are really the top public prescriptions, and news reporters on CNN and BBC seem to be continually saying, "Stay tuned."
