The World Health Organization raises the highest alert level and calls for extreme caution against the serious respiratory infections caused by the new Corona Virus, similar to the SARS virus. Symptoms of the virus, such as the flu, begin with a cough and a high temperature, to develop into severe pneumonia, causing damage to the alveoli and swelling of the lung tissue.
What is this virus and what are its symptoms?
The new virus has been diagnosed as a mysterious and rare virus from the “corona virus” family. According to preliminary information, the symptoms of this new virus start as simple as the symptoms of the flu, in which the patient feels a sore throat, cough, a high temperature, shortness of breath, and a headache, which may be identical Then to recover. Symptoms may develop into acute lung inflammation, due to damage to the alveoli and swelling of the lung tissue, or to kidney failure, as the virus may prevent oxygen from reaching the blood, causing impairment in the functions of body organs, which may lead to death in certain cases.
The World Health Organization had previously announced that the new mysterious virus belongs to the Corona family to which the SARS virus belongs, but the difference between the two viruses lies in the fact that SARS, other than that it infects the respiratory system, may cause stomach and intestine infections, while the new virus It differs from SARS in that it causes acute inflammation of the respiratory system, and quickly leads to kidney failure.
The World Health Organization had previously announced that the new mysterious virus belongs to the Corona family to which the SARS virus belongs, but the difference between the two viruses lies in the fact that SARS, other than that it infects the respiratory system, may cause stomach and intestine infections, while the new virus It differs from SARS in that it causes acute inflammation of the respiratory system, and quickly leads to kidney failure.
How is the disease transmitted?
Like most viruses that infect the respiratory system, the disease is transmitted through contamination of hands, droplets, and direct contact with the patient's fluids and secretions and small air particles as the virus enters through the membranes of the nose and throat.
What are the ways to prevent it and is there a vaccine against this virus?
To prevent it: isolate the affected person, wash hands, use gags in crowded places, there is no anti-virus vaccine.How do we detect infection?
We detect infection with this virus through symptoms or laboratory viral analysis. And this disease is fully cured after a period ranging from one to two weeks.
Are children more vulnerable to infection ?
For example, the infection rate of children with the SARS virus is not 5%, which is one of the Corona viruses, because dealing with cases was quick to isolate and treat cases and prevent children from visiting patients in hospitals.
Is there a cure for this virus?
There is no special treatment against viral Corona disease as the body expels viruses by autoimmune, except that symptoms are treated with special medicines for each of them, such as cough medicines, analgesics and anti-inflammatory.
You should pay attention to the following things when someone is infected with viral corona disease:
- Keep out of wet places.
- The house is well ventilated and well heated.
- A mask (masks) should be worn to prevent infection.
- The injured must be isolated in a room of his own and not to be in contact with him and his own purposes until recovery is complete.
