6 Facts about coronavirus, should you be worried?(updated)
I know you are worried as It's
something that hasn't been seen before,and infectious diseases typically look more severe when they’re first discovered.
But If you think you've heard about this virus before, chances are you have.
You just have to go back 17 years when there was a SARS outbreak in China.
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-The term ‘corona’ simply means crown. When you look at the virus
through an electron microscope, it has these projections called S-spikes that
look kind of crown-like.
- Coronaviruses are winter viruses, “When the weather is warm
and moist, these viruses don’t spread as well as when the weather is cold and
dry.”
- The virus thrives at 6 degrees centigrade
outside a host but will not survive longer than 5 minutes in temperatures above
20 degrees centigrade.
- The virus has greater survival outside a host
at relative humidity lower than 30% (too dry) or higher than 80% (too humid).
- You’re not going to get a dangerous human coronavirus from Fido .It’s true that dogs, cats, and most species carry their own kinds of coronavirus, but those are not human pathogens. There’s no need to put a mask on your furry friend. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports thatthere’s no evidence
that the coronavirus can infect companion animals, like dogs and cats.
-As for prevention, antibiotics won’t help with that either. antibiotics only treat bacterial infections — not viruses like the coronavirus.
- You’re not going to get a dangerous human coronavirus from Fido .It’s true that dogs, cats, and most species carry their own kinds of coronavirus, but those are not human pathogens. There’s no need to put a mask on your furry friend. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that
-As for prevention, antibiotics won’t help with that either. antibiotics only treat bacterial infections — not viruses like the coronavirus.
What is
the virus causing illness in Wuhan?
It is a novel coronavirus – a member of the coronavirus family never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals.
Many
of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huananseafood
wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and
newly-slaughtered animals. New and troubling viruses usually originate in
animal hosts. Ebola and flu are examples.
Coronaviruses, according to
the World Health Organization (WHO), are a large family of viruses that can
cause a range of illnesses, from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) — the latter of which also began in China and infected some
8,000 people during a 2002-2003 outbreak.
What If the virus spreads?
Even if this virus spreads around the
world ,it may not be very deadly. In the best-case scenario, this outbreak
might look more like H1N1 swine
flu than SARS or Spanish flu. When H1N1 was first
recognized in 2009 and spread around the world, there were major concerns about
its lethality. US schools closed, people from North America were quarantined
when they arrived in other countries, flights were canceled. Not only did those
measures fail to contain the virus, it turned out H1N1 wasn’t all that deadly.
“Now we’re still living with that virus — it’s one that circulates with every flu season."
It’s possible that as we learn more, 2019-nCoV
will seem more like the flu than like SARS. That’s because infectious diseases
typically look more severe when they’re first discovered, since the people
showing up in hospitals tend to be the sickest. And already, the new virus appears to
be less deadly than both SARS and MERS.
If you don’t live in China and are an adult without any
pre-existing medical condition, odds are you’ll be able to fight off the
infection in the unlikely chance that you do contract it.
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Healthy habits to help prevent it :
- Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available.
- Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available.
- Everyone should make sure the mouth and the throat are always moist. Drink some water every 15 minutes. Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other fluids will help wash it down the esophagus into stomach. When the virus is in the stomach, the hydrochloric acid in your stomach will kill the germs.
Always wash hands and drink enough water regularly
Treatment
Most people with common human coronavirus
illness will recover on their own.
There are no specific treatments for illnesses
caused by human coronaviruses. However, you can do some things to relieve your
symptoms:
-Take pain and fever medications (Caution: do
not give Aspirin to children)
-Use a room humidifier or take a hot shower to
help ease a sore throat and cough.
Coronaviruses (are) the most common cause of
the common cold, so we've actually all probably had a coronavirus at some point
in our lifetime.
Influenza
rarely gets this sort of attention, even though it kills more people each year
than any other virus.
-If people aren’t afraid of the flu, perhaps that’s because they are inured to yearly warnings. For them, the flu is old news. Yet viruses named after foreign places – such as Ebola, Zika and Wuhan – inspire terror.
-If people aren’t afraid of the flu, perhaps that’s because they are inured to yearly warnings. For them, the flu is old news. Yet viruses named after foreign places – such as Ebola, Zika and Wuhan – inspire terror.