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Izahnaya Tobsen - Lab 9: Coronavirus SARS

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Izahnaya Tovsen

Human Bio Lab

April, 2020 

Lab 9: Coronavirus SARS

 

     With COVID-19 and Coronavirus SARS, there seems to still be very little credible information to find. Between all the tweets, tabloids, and biased articles there are a few give credible facts, but still so little is known. SARS specifically means Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, it highlights the severity of the respiratory strain of coronavirus. We are now discovering there could be a few strains, like even a gastrointestinal strain, that affects your stomach/intestines.  We are learning more each day the complete affects of the novel viruses. 

 

     Coronavirus SARS is extremely difficult for people, especially with underlying respiratory conditions. It is extremely contagious, can pass through physical/close contact, coughing and sneezing too. The worst cases are in older adults, and elderly. "Symptoms are influenza-like and include fever, malaise, myalgia, headache, diarrhea, and shivering (rigors). No individual symptom or cluster of symptoms has proved to be specific for a diagnosis of SARS. Although fever is the most frequently reported symptom, it is sometimes absent on initial measurement, especially in elderly and immunosuppressed patients."The symptoms range in patients from age to age, people with prior conditions and what not. The symptoms could be dormant for up to 2 weeks, you will get fevers and chills, or maybe a cough, if you are young maybe no symptoms at all. It is taxing on the human body. Though there have been previous strains of corona there has never been this one. 

 

     When encounter the first symptoms which is like any flu, they will not test with the first symptoms alone, you need to be a dire conditions before they will do testing; this I know personally from calling the nurses. So any believed statistics may be are false in that there is not enough testing done, and carriers can be asymptomatic - the contagion factor is one of the most dangerous things about it. "Overall, our findings indicate that a large proportion of COVID-19 infections were undocumented prior to the implementation of travel restrictions and other heightened control measures in China on 23 January, and that a large proportion of the total force of infection was mediated through these undocumented infections."With the rapid spreading, unknown vaccinations, and increasing symptoms the virus will likely get worse before it gets better. Though people are racing to find a cure, but the date is unknown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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     www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/.

 

Li, Ruiyun, et al. “Substantial Undocumented Infection Facilitates the Rapid Dissemination of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV2).” Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 16 Mar. 2020,      science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/24/science.abb3221.

 

“CDC Grows SARS-CoV-2, the Virus That Causes COVID-19, in Cell Culture.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15 Feb. 2020,

     www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/grows-virus-cell-culture.html.

 

 

 

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