China decoding bug bites virus transmission to humans

[Out of Vietnam]
Tuoi Tre Online - Tuesday, 14 / 9

TT-- Chinese researchers have discovered a new virus from patients with insect bites in Henan Province. Information on the virus data is a "family" most deadly virus but the good news is this kind of a "kind word" most.

CE Professor Yuan, an epidemiologist at the University of Beijing at the same time as the team members sick on China's Health Ministry, said after morphological analysis showed that this virus is a member belong to the Bunyaviridae.

Bunyaviridae has hundreds of members and growing rapidly with all the different names according to geographical aspects such as the Andes, Seoul, Amur River, Blue River and Lake Bloodland.

A member of the family Bunyaviridae viruses known and most thoroughly studied is the hantavirus.

Hantavirus is harmless in mice. But the reasons that science can not explain, once people get into, it became the "killer," brutally attacked the RNA (ribonucleic acid), specific molecules responsible platelet production. Patients will be high fever, vomiting, terrible pain, and kidney damage if not emergency in 72 hours will die from blood loss.

Mortality due to hantavirus infection than 50% in North America in the 90s but today it dropped to about 10%.

According to Professor Tu Yuan Xiaoping, because patients in Henan Province have symptoms similar to hantavirus infection should the team fear that this type of defendant brought the deadly virus. The discovery of new viruses as they Bunyaviridae reinforce this concern.

However, when they breathe a little more careful analysis of the nucleic acid of the virus suggests this virus have different structures with hantavirus. In fact, it is very much different than "members" have their virus known Bunyaviridae.

CE Raw said: "This is the most gentle member of the family Bunyaviridae that we are known. The death rate so far only about 3%. "

CE Professor Nguyen concluded: "We can see clearly now this is not a disease. Virus does not seem likely to spread from person to person. In such cases, it is not too dangerous and controlling it is easier than seasonal flu. "