Shocking research results: Corona virus can be transmitted from the gastrointestinal tract

Chinese experts warned that the new coronavirus could be transmitted through the gastrointestinal tract (faeces, mouth), Xinhua on February 2, citing the latest research results.

Chinese experts warned that the new coronavirus could be transmitted through the gastrointestinal tract (stool, mouth), Xinhua on February 2, citing the latest research results.

Experts from the People's University Hospital of Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China's number one natural science research organization) have found nucleic acid in feces and fluids. Rectal mucosa of patients after they realize that the initial symptom of some people infected with coronavirus is just diarrhea, instead of the common symptom of fever.

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Passengers arriving in Los Angeles, USA on January 29 were wearing new coronavirus masks.(Photo: Getty).

The team believes that the new coronavirus still has a certain degree of transmission through the fecal, oral route, besides the route of transmission through droplets (saliva) and close contact.

If the route of transmission through the gastrointestinal tract is ascertained, there will be specific recommendations regarding eating (limiting eating raw meat, raw vegetables), sex (via the 'back door'), protecting personal hygiene (using standard toilets), medical waste water discharge, cultivation (fertilizing northern fertilizer), livestock .

China has banned the discharge of medical waste without prior sterilization; Waste water treatment plants must increase disinfection in the context of widespread coronavirus epidemics, the China Global Times ( Global Times ) reported 2/2.

The new coronavirus can spread through vomit and stool, the Global Times quoted Chinese researchers.

With the approval of the President of the Central Military Commission of China Xi Jinping, from tomorrow (February 3), a total of 1,400 medical personnel from the Chinese armed forces will join the coronavirus-infected patients. has just been built at Huoshenshan Hospital, which has just been built in Wuhan City.

Huoshenshan Hospital has 1,000 patient beds, built emergency to treat new coronavirus infections along with another field hospital.

The US Department of Transportation Security will require all airlines operating in the US to ask all passengers who book tickets for flights from outside the US whether they have been in mainland China in the past 14 days or not. No, CNN reported on February 2.

By the end of February 1, mainland China had 14,380 new cases of coronavirus infection, 304 deaths, Xinhua reported on Monday morning. Outside mainland China, there are more than 160 cases in 26 countries and territories, including one in the Philippines, CNN reported this morning.

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Update 04 February 2020
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