A virus strain (quite like SARS) that is carried by bats has
scientists stumped and hard at work. A man from Saudi Arabia was killed from
this virus and now a man from Qatar has his life in the line because of this
strain. This virus is specifically a coronavirus, which as stated above, is the
family that contains SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). Usually humans
cannot contract this virus from bats, so the fact that a man has already died
from the virus has caused a big scramble to find the answers. The goal is to as
quickly as possible find out whether or not this virus can become and outbreak
epidemic or if it is just a one-case scenario. The Qatar and Saudi Arabian men
both had tissues tested and it is confirmed that the virus came from the same strain.
It takes about 10 days for effects to noticeably take place on the body. To
further test to see exactly what is going on with the virus, testing in monkeys
and ferrets will take place.
This article stated that “Coronaviruses are one cause of the
common cold. It’s possible the new virus could be another one of them” (David
Brown). It is interesting that this scary of an article is published when the
deaths could have been nothing but a virus like the common cold. It seems as
though researchers can sometimes be overly worried about these kinds of illnesses
from a virus. Testing and possibly killing of animals will take place in order
to confirm or deny the possibility that two deaths out of everyone in the world
is threat to mass amounts of people.
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