Today, nine or ten months after the recognition that a new coronavirus had caused the sudden appearance of a large number of atypical pneumonias in Wuhan, the city is still largely considered the place of origin of the new viral disease. However, as documented in a recent contribution [1],...
History and origin Coronaviruses were not expected to be highly infectious to humans, but the outburst of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong province China in the years 2002 and 2003 proved to be devastating. SARS-CoV is the contributory agent of the SARS, also known as...
the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, wascreated in a lab. Most iterations of the rumor claim the virus wasaccidentallyreleased from a high-level infectious disease research lab in Wuhan, China — the purported origin of the outbreak — andsome suggestthe virus itself was des...
Even though numerous epidemics/pandemics have left a deadly imprint on the history of humankind, the advent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was wholly unexpected. Officially, COVID-19 was reported as an outbreak in Wuhan (China) for the first time in December 2019. However...
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help doctors assess which patients are likely to be vulnerable to its worst effects. Understanding the mechanisms by which genes confer resistance or susceptibility may help with the search for drugs. And history suggests that sars-cov-2 is unlikely to be the last novel coronavirus to make the ...
As the COVID-19 situation continues to worsen in the United States, their smearing campaign against China has become even more unscrupulous. Calling China "the origin of the coronavirus" and blaming China for "hiding information," they are desperate to hold China accountable for the pandemic, an...
Stephen Kanazawa, a former foreign correspondent of The New York Times and a senior researcher at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, said that the Fort Detrick biolab has a “dark history” and has worked with Japanese war criminals, and still remains ...
53 The incidence of CVD in COVID-19 is preceded by hypertension and diabetes (Table 3.1). Evidence shows that 7%–19% of COVID-19 patients presented with a history of preexisting cardiovascular complications.16,20 CVD was found to be the second most prevalent comorbidity, next only to ...
Human race is currently facing the wrath of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a highly transmittable and pathogenic RNA virus, causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the worst ever global pandemic. Coronaviruses (CoVs) have emerged as a major public health con...