We all know something or the other about Coronavirus, lets add something more than you know about it.
WHAT IS CORONAVIRUS?
COVID- 19, the outbreak occurred in Wuhan (China) from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Coronaviridae are entire family of viruses that cause disease in mammals and birds. Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel corona virus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans.
They are Zoonotic i.e it can transfer from animals to human. You read it right, detailed investigation found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.
HOW ONE GET INFECTED?
One can get coronavirus through contact with infected person, it is either through cough droplets, or respiratory secretion or by physically touching on a thing which contain virus on it, it could be shared pen, table, keyboard or anything.
when you come in contact with any such thing containing droplets of infected person followed by touching your nosed, mouth or eating without washing your hand, you get infected. It is not airborne disease so mere physical barrier and maintaining regular hygiene will work great to protect from getting those viruses.
MECHANISM AND AFTER EFFECTS
Coronaviruses have RNA, carrying all the information which it needs to replicate and the genetic material in the viruses is typically surrounded by a protective capsid. Once the virus comes in contact with your cell it binds to the receptor of your cells and can access to all your cell's machinery, which is reserve for your own DNA that uses ribosome to make proteins and travel to all over your body.
Coronavirus uses its own RNA to go to those ribosome and start making proteins that it wants, so basically your body start producing viruses by making the genetic material and capsid. Hence your cells become virus making machine.
These viruses eventually fill the cell and it way back to cell membrane were they break out often destroying the cell in the process.
Then your body sense interference of the foreign body and starts to trigger the immune response which is generally by increasing the temperature of your body (fever) and symptoms like headache, sore throat and dizziness coughing i.e common fever symptoms and this makes it difficult to track the coronaviruses as symptoms are so common to regular flu.
Your increased body temperature helps your immune system to work better, which make more hostile environment for the viruses. You feel weak and tired because your body prioritize to fight against the virus instead of your regular work and your bones may actually feel sore and weak as they produce WBC.
The body doesn’t catch virus right away so essentially the virus starts with upper hand that is why it can take so long to fight against the virus but the case is little different for coronaviruses as those with healthy immune system can fight against it within couple of weeks, main problem arises for those who have compromised immunity which is often to the people who are elderly or have some health issues, particularly it drastically effect to the people with age above 60 and in sever cases it may cause death but the overall percentage is low (around 2-3%) and it happens mostly to the people with age above 60 (chances rise to 10%).
Virus is not always the cause of death, after weakened immune system other organisms such as bacteria take advantage causing other complications eventually resulting in death.
IS IT A JOURNEY FROM EPIDEMIC TO PANDEMIC??
Well, don't panic! It is not yet announced as pandemic but definitely a public health emergency of international concern.
Generally severity of the disease does not account for it, rather it deals with the geographic spread, exact definition may vary but in general if a virus spread across the international boarders and around the world when the source is unknown then it is said pandemic for example- Antonine plague. So if a infected person from China goes to America and infect the other person it is not generally called pandemic.
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PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Simple and effective prevention measures includes-
1- Regular washing your hand with soap, or use sanitizer if washing is not possible.
6 step hand washing that is cleaning your entire palm and wrist for 20-25 sec will eliminate the risk of getting infected.
Drinking alcohol will not help you but mixing alcohol of any kind (having 60-70% of alcohol in it) with alovera (optional) will give you home-made sanitizer.
2- Maintain social distance
Not only "Namaste London" rather "Namaste world", if you get me :P
Follow Indian traditional way of greeting "NAMASTE" as suggested and followed by PM of India and Israel (for now).
3- Practice respiratory hygiene
In first place avoid public gathering if possible. Am I suggesting you to avoid celebrating Holi this year? Absolutely not !!
Recently PM of India tweeted about dropping the plan of "holi milan samaron" a festive meeting, it was done so as to bring public awareness and to encourage people to celebrate holi just with their friends and family that it only with known community. As by doing this you avoid the chance of getting in contact with infected ones.
If you can not avoid public gathering wear mask. Regular surgical mask will work great, N95 mask is not mandatory. Make sure you properly dispose used mask.
4- Stay Updated
Make sure you listen to Legitimates organization because they aware people and provide services.
Government of India has provided 24*7 helpline center- +91 11 2397 8046 or you can contact through email at ncov2019@gmail.com
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DISCLAIMER- All the information has been taken from reliable sources and I have tried to give you brief and quality introduction to this topic, this blog was written when the disease was not pandemic do checkout the second part of this blog because now COVID-19 is pandemic.
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