Yesterday, the researchers announced that it is a virus from the corona virus family, the family of viruses that usually causes colds
Haim Shadmi
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Researchers in the United States claim to have identified the virus that causes the atypical pneumonia (SARS) that has been affecting the world since November and that originated in Asia. Yesterday, the researchers published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" magazine that it is indeed a virus from the corona virus family, the family of viruses that usually cause mild colds.
In recent weeks, scientists and researchers around the world estimated, based on laboratory tests they conducted, that the virus that causes SARS belongs to the Corona family, but there was no definite identification of the virus.
The American Center for Disease Control was also involved in the research published yesterday, which was the first to claim that the virus belongs to the Corona family. According to the researchers, it is a virus that was not known to humans until now, and it is possible that it is a virus known to animals, which has mutated.
The identification of the virus will now allow researchers to concentrate on developing a simple test kit to detect carriers of the virus and immediately determine whether a person is sick with SARS. The disease is reminiscent of flu and pneumonia, and its characteristics are fever over 38 degrees, cough and difficulty breathing.
It seems that researchers will now seek to name the virus after Dr. Carlo Urbani, a World Health Organization physician who was the first to identify the disease and later died from it.
So far, according to the World Health Organization, at least 2781 people worldwide have been infected with SARS, and at least 111 people have died from it. The disease itself has spread across 18 countries around the world, and half of the patients have already recovered. The disease itself first broke out in the Guangdong region of southern China in November, if not earlier. However, after the Chinese concealed its existence, the World Health Organization only learned of the disease's existence in February, by which time the disease had already begun to spread to several countries around the world.
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