12/09/25 - 16:40 Source: Reuters
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Is it coincidence that in a few months time, two people have been infected with a new type of coronavirus or is there something around? That is the question virologist Ab Osterhaus (Erasmus MC) and his colleagues at home and abroad are currently bending. Also, they are eagerly looking for the source of infection.
"We are now working on a method which we this virus early diagnose. We also work on means by which we can fight, if need be: vaccines and antivirals, "said Osterhaus. The question is whether the virus from person to person can be. Currently, research is carried out in the contact area of the two patients. The question is whether people with whom they have been in contact antibodies have created. This may indicate that the virus from human to human transmission is. "But we should be careful. It may also be that the people who have antibodies with the same source have been in trouble. A bat example. Then it is possible that they are not infected each other, but that both the infected bat. " According to the RIVM in the Netherlands are not known infections. Symptoms that a patient receives when he is infected, include fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. The two known patients had severe pneumonia and kidney problems.
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