Hugo Pizzi, specialist in infectious diseases, recounted the origins of the camel virus que Already It affects five players of the French National Team ahead of the World Cup final. “It is said that camelids would have been infected from bats,” he revealed. Furthermore, in Fontevecchia modefor net tv Y RadioProfile (FM 101.9), analyzed the possibility of a spread in the South American region.
Do you see any risk that tourists bring us, imported from the World Cup, the camel virus?
It is speculation, we do not receive any certainty that players have that. What is true is that It is a pathology of that whole area, where there are camels and dromedaries, which exist and are transmitted to humans. That is why everyone who went was advised to do not touch camels and do not come near to take pictures.
It is a pathology discovered in 2012, in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. And since he attacked the lung, giving pneumonia, he took it as the middle east respiratory syndrome, but it is already in several countries. The camel virus has an index of mortality between 20 and 30 percent.
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To the person who has a comorbidity prior to the fever, they are certain victims. The curiosity is that it is transmitted from animals to humans, which is why it is classified as a zoonosis. But contagion from man to man is almost exceptional.
That would explain why SARS didn’t become a pandemic like Covid did, correct?
In this case, several scientists say that the camels were infected from the bats. This last animal, on the zoological scale, has more than 60 different types of viruses.
The risk of spread through the Latin American region
We also have different types of camelids in South America. Was it only with the camels or also, for example, with the llamas?
It is something that worries us. The metabolism of this zoological scale is very similar, so it would not be unusual for them to contaminate them.
It is studying what happens in Australiathat does not have this animal as a native, and has a huge problem with the wild camels, because they were brought there and they have reproduced rapidly, destroying all the farms. In fact, in that country they must have more camels than in other places that have them as natives.
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Thinking about the Andean peoples and the coexistence with this type of animals that can cause devastation, in the Spanish conquest of South America, the original peoples did not have the experiments on the viruses that the Europeans brought.
It is true, we have thought about it too. But luckily, right now, today It is in 20 countries, with few cases. So far it is found in the Middle East area. The Russians, at the time, designed a vaccine, but since they saw that there were only 2,000 cases, they gave up. Today there are about 2,600, but the market is always looking at numbers.
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