Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.
Was a new virus transmitted to humans by an animal discovered on April 30 in China? In any case, the matter is taken very seriously in this period of new coronavirus.
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Psychosis has been great since the appearance of the Covid-19 in China. So, when on April 30, a 61-year-old man was hospitalized for contracting hepatitis linked to a new animal virus, the world was worried. Especially since a dozen Hong Kong residents have since tested positive for hepatitis E.
This disease, also known as “rat HEV”, is a “new” virus transmitted from rats to humans. As reported by Ouest-France, its first appearance dates back to 2018, still in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old patient, then recently treated for a liver transplant, had abnormal liver functions whose origin could have been linked to hepatitis E (this being a disease of the time causing fever, jaundice and enlarged the organ) but without being able to identify the human strain of the virus.
However, it is found in different animals in the form of four species, only one of which was known to infect humans. And for the first time today, after improving their tests, Chinese doctors were able to discover with the case of the 61-year-old man, rat hepatitis E in a human!
“The worrying thing is that this virus can get from animals to humans,” said microbiologist and one of the researchers behind the discovery, Dr. Siddharth Sridhar. “This infection was so unusual and unprecedented that the team wondered if it was a one-time incident, or a patient who was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he added.
Except that since, the cases have multiplied and are now counted by ten. Doctors are concerned that the virus has actually been “hemming” for several years before being transmitted. Be that as it may, a report on this “new virus” was produced to alert the WHO and thus warn all countries. To, perhaps, prepare them in case of massive development of the disease around the world …
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