The new Corona virus was detected in China for the first time last December, and then it moved to several countries around the world, to exceed the number of infected and dead people by tens of thousands.
Despite the seriousness of the virus, the symptoms of infection with it are similar to the symptoms of a common cold, and the symptoms may not worsen if you are a healthy person.
With the seriousness of the situation and the state of panic that the world has witnessed in the past weeks due to the increase in the number of injuries and deaths, it was found that there is some misinformation about it, some of which were reported by “Life Science”:
Surgical masks protect against the virus
In fact, it benefits most people infected with the virus, as it prevents the transfer of drops from the patient’s mouth and then the transmission of infection to others.
The risk of infection is less than that of influenza
Some scientists suggest that an average person with HIV can infect 2.2 people, which is more than the average transmission of influenza infection (1.3). And the annual death rate in the United States from influenza is 0.1 percent, and this year it reached 0.5 percent, while Corona the death rate due to it is 20 times (2.3 percent), according to the Chinese Ministry of Health.
It is a mutated form of cold
This is not true, as the virus belongs to a large family of corona viruses, strains of which have caused the spread of the SARS and Mers epidemics before.
Designed in the lab
No scientific evidence yet supports this circulating idea. The virus is similar to the SARS and MERS viruses, which have killed hundreds of people worldwide over the past years.
Leads to death
This is also not true, as 81 percent of those who have it have normal symptoms, only 13 percent have severe symptoms such as shortness of breath, and 4.7 percent have severe symptoms such as inability to breathe. The figures indicate that only 2.3 percent died as a result of the disease.
Pets transmit infection
There is no scientific evidence that it can be infected at all, let alone transmitted to humans, according to the World Health Organization.
Children do not catch the infection
It is not true. Children also catch the infection, but according to current studies, the infection is transmitted to them at a lower rate than adults. A Chinese study indicates that only 2.2 percent of the 44,000 HIV cases in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the disease, are children.
It’s easy to tell
Not true. Symptoms of the disease are similar to the symptoms of a common cold and influenza. In the initial stages, symptoms may not appear at all. Common symptoms of the disease include fever, cough, and difficulty breathing, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and runny nose rarely occur, and in severe cases, the disease can develop into symptoms similar to pneumonia.
Receiving parcels from China is not safe
The virus does not live for a long time in the materials from which letters and parcels are made, unlike surfaces such as plastic, glass, and minerals that can survive for long periods, in addition to that it needs certain temperatures and is not exposed to ultraviolet radiation and needs a humid environment which is not available Necessarily in letters and parcels.
Visiting Chinese restaurants may cause illness
The virus not only infects the Chinese, otherwise, it also refuses to go to Italian, Korean and Japanese restaurants.
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