China deciphered the bug virus transmitted to humans

Chinese researchers have found a new virus from patients with bug bites in Ha Nam province. The good news is that the virus belongs to the most deadly ' family ' of the virus, but the good news is that it is the most ' gentle ' type.

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Professor Xu Xiaoyuan, an epidemiologist at Beijing University and a member of the Chinese Ministry of Health's research team, said after the morphological analysis showed that the virus was a member of the family. Bunyaviridae .

Bunyaviridae has hundreds of members and grows rapidly with all different names geographically like Andes, Seoul, Amur, Blue River and Bloodland Lake.

One member of the most well-known and thoroughly studied family of Bunyaviridae is hantavirus.

Hantavirus is harmless in mice. But for reasons that are unexplainable for science, once infiltrated into humans, it becomes a " killer ," brutally attacking the RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules, especially those responsible. platelet production. The patient will have high fever, vomiting, terrible pain, kidney failure and if not emergency in 72 hours will die of blood loss.

The deadly bug bites in China.(Photo: China Daily)

The death rate from hantavirus infection reached more than 50% in North America in the 1990s, but today it drops to only about 10%.

According to Professor Xu Xiaoyuan, because patients in Henan Province have symptoms similar to hantavirus infection, the researchers fear that this type of bug carries the deadly virus. The discovery of new virus belongs to Bunyaviridae family, reinforcing this concern.

However, they breathe a little when analyzing more carefully the viral nucleic acids that show that the virus has a different structure than hantavirus. In fact, it's a lot different than the ' members ' who have known their Bunyaviridae virus.

Xu Xiaoyuan commented: ' This is the most gentle member of the family Bunyaviridae that we know. The death rate so far is only about 3% . "

Professor Xu concludes: ' It is clear that this is not an epidemic at this time. The virus does not seem to be able to spread from person to person. In such a case, it is not too dangerous and it is easier to control it than the seasonal flu virus .