A study by Chinese scientists has revealed that a more deadly type of coronavirus than the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 carries a risk of transmission to humans. In addition, it was stated that this virus can be as deadly as MERS-CoV-2, and today’s vaccines are ineffective against the virus.
While the type of coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, continues to sign new cases all over the world with its Omicron variant, studies on other coronavirus types continue. If the new study by a group of researchers from Wuhan University and the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences frightening information. revealed.
The research, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, and published as a preview, focused on a type of coronavirus found in South Africa, called ‘NeoCoV’. This virus, which is currently only detected in bats, but is the closest relative of the MERS-CoV virus previously seen in humans, can be transmitted to humans revealed.
Today’s treatments and vaccines are ineffective, tens of times more deadly than Sars-CoV-2:
In the study they shared, scientists found that NeoCoV and its closest relative, PDF-2180-CoV, caused some bat ‘Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)’ types and worst of all, viruses named PDF-2180-CoV. that human ACE2 can use to transmit revealed. Microscopic analyzes revealed that viruses bind to the ACE2 receptor in a different way than other ACE2-utilizing viruses.
One of the most important results of the study was that antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that affects millions of people today, and MERS-CoV-2, could not eliminate this virus. So today’s vaccines and treatments were ineffective against this virus. In addition, according to scientists, this virus at MERS-CoV-2 level with both high mortality and transmission rate. According to WHO data, MERS-CoV virus was detected 35% of patients died (2,468 positive cases, 851 deaths). In Sars-CoV-2, this rate is approximately 1.40% (356 million total cases/5 million 600 thousand deaths).
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