In this gloomy climate, a ruthless "information war" erupted at the same time, prompting a Russian publication of the long-running Russian newspaper Izvestia, which cites a Russian scientist with a UN mandate, who is blaming the US for "biological war" against China.
"A pneumonia outbreak of unknown origin recorded in China at the end of 2019 may be a kind of biological weapon", this is the opinion expressed on January 20, 2020, by Igor Nikulin, a member of the United Nations Commission on Biological Weapons in the period 1998-2003, the Russian newspaper reports.
According to a Russian expert, “about 400 US military biological laboratories are located around the world. Americans spend billions of dollars on them every year and "are unlikely to do it for anything," he says.
"In 2010, such a laboratory under the jurisdiction of the US Navy was shut down in Indonesia, precisely because they were conducting unauthorized experiments, including avian influenza, as Americans refused to share the results of their experiments with the United States. ", the Russian expert recalled speaking on the Russian channel" Star ".
According to Nikulin, the new virus in China "could be a malicious act by the United States to put pressure on the Chinese, while also increasing the turnover of private US drug makers."
So propaganda war between Russians and Americans over the virus, while the US is expected to respond, refuting Russian claims of "biological warfare".
It is only as the virus spreads and the public's fear of what it really is is growing steadily. According to experts, the causative factor was a new type of coronavirus.
Coronaviruses are a family of more than 30 viruses. They can damage the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system.
Coronavirus causes pneumonia, started in the city of Wuhan, China, is transmitted from person to person, and has already killed at least 17 people.
The World Health Organization (WHO) held an emergency meeting yesterday to consider whether a "state of emergency" should be declared, since emerging viral infections - from bird flu to Ebola and Zika infections - pose major threats to the global public health and understanding their origins can help researchers design defensive strategies against future outbreaks.
A new study * provides important information on the possible origin of the most recent outbreak of viral pneumonia in China. The findings are published in the Journal of Medical Virology.
The study finds that coronavirus-infected patients - named 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization - were exposed to wildlife at a wholesale market in Wuhan, China, where seafood, poultry, poultry and poultry are sold, animals.
Carrying out detailed genetic analysis of the virus and comparing it with the genetic information available for different viruses and host species, the researchers concluded that the new 2019-nCoV virus was formed by coronavirus recombinant living in bats and rodents.
The hybrid virus developed a recombinant viral protein that recognizes and binds to receptors on cells of various hosts. The findings indicate that the snake is the most likely wildlife tank for the 2019-nCoV virus.
Simply put, the research team found evidence that the 2019-nCoV hybrid virus may have been a snake host before it was transmitted to humans.
Homologous recombination within viral glycoprotein binding may allow transmission from snakes to humans.
Finally, the Russian Ministry of Health's Center for Strategic Planning (CSP) has set up a special test to detect the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which will take 15-20 minutes and take place at the country's airports.
*Bibliography. "Homologous recombination within the newly identified coronavirus glycoprotein spike may boost cross-species transmission from snake to human." Wei Ji, Wei Wang, Xiaofang Zhao, Junjie Zai, and Xingguang Li. Journal of Medical Virology; Published Online: January 22, 2020 (DOI: 10.1002 / jmv.25682).
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