STRANGE FACTS ABOUT COVID 19 - Part I

The term 'new coronavirus'/nCoV means that neither scientists nor the cells met this virus before.

Over two million years of evolution, our immune system has learned to deal with most known infections,  but the new coronavirus catches it by surprise, this it's so hard to cope with and quite easy to get infected.

Once in a cell, the virus 'siezes'  control over it and forces it to endlessly produce it's own copies instead of its usual proteins. A chain reaction begins. As a result, the cell dies, but the carrier of the infection becomes contagious.

At the initial stage of the infection, the new coronavirus actively reproduces itself in the throat and upper respiratory tract. Then the inflation goes down and can reach the lungs,  causing inflammation.

That is why the first symptom of infection is a cough. Only then the temperature begins to rise.

Many people who become infected (18%)  do not have even a cough. The disease proceeds without any symptoms at all: a person may not even suspect that he is sick.

Moreover such an asymptomatic patient is still an active cartier of infection and can infect others.

If Covid 19 proceeds benignantly, it's symptoms are very similar to the usual seasonal flu: dry cough, fever, fatigue, sometimes muscle pain or headache.

Covid 19 is also treated in the same way as regular flu - at home, symptomatically.

One of the most unusual symptoms of coronavirus is the loss of sense of taste and/or smell.

(This is just for information only. Not to be used for treatment purpose. In the case of infection of the virus you may contact the concerned health experts)

                       ............... to be continued

KV George

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