It is my solemn duty to announce that Chinese state media has just reported some very shitty news regarding the Wuhan virus.
The novel coronavirus that has plagued the world with over 17,000 confirmed cases in over 24 countries worldwide can be transmitted through the digestive tract.
Lest you’re unaware, that’s a nice way of saying shit or poo poo but it may also be packaged nicely as ‘stool’.
This came after virus genetic material was found in patient stool and rectal swabs.
The shitty discovery was uncovered by scientists from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
They had spotted certain trends and noted that some patients who had the novel coronavirus also experienced diarrhoea early in the disease, instead of a fever.
The latter is more common.
Pathogen Could Be Transmitted Along Faecal-Oral Route
This essentially means that the pathogen might be transmitted along the faecal-oral route instead of only from coming into contact with virus-laden droplets from an infected person’s cough.
Up till now, the doctors have only focused on the respiratory samples from pneumonia cases to spot coronavirus patients.
According to Bloomberg News, they have failed to look at diarrhoea, a less obvious source of the spread.
Diarrhoea has been observed in around 10-20% of patients of related virus that also causes an acute respiratory syndrome, presumably Sars.
Back in 2003, a “virus-laden aerosol plume” from a Sars patient with diarrhoea infected hundreds of cases at Hong Kong’s Amoy Gardens.
From this, researches quickly realised how imperative it was to study how the virus can in fact be spread through the gastrointestinal tract.
This also shines a light on how effective face masks actually are and their limitations.
It also means that practising good personal hygiene is very important in our fight against these viruses.
For instance, the very first patient infected with the coronavirus in the United States had diarrhoea before he became sick with pneumonia.
His specimens were also found to be positive for the Wuhan virus.
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