Researchers don’t yet know how exactly 2019-nCoV spreads from person to person, but suspect it’s most likely from coming into contact with virus-containing droplets (Photo: Ruters)
Coronavirus lurking in feces may reveal hidden risk of spread
5 min read . Updated: 01 Feb 2020, 05:25 PM IST- The coronavirus was detected in the loose stool of the first US case — a finding that hasn’t featured among case reports from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak
- Diarrhea occurred in about 10-20% of patients afflicted with severe acute respiratory syndrome about 17 years ago and was the source of an explosive SARS outbreak
MELBOURNE : While doctors have focused on respiratory samples from pneumonia cases to identify coronavirus patients, they might have ignored a less apparent and hidden source of the spread: diarrhea.
The novel coronavirus was detected in the loose stool of the first US case — a finding that hasn’t featured among case reports from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. However, that doesn’t surprise scientists who have studied coronaviruses, nor doctors familiar with the bug that caused SARS.
Diarrhea occurred in about 10-20% of patients afflicted with severe acute respiratory syndrome about 17 years ago and was the source of an explosive SARS outbreak in the Amoy Gardens residential complex in Hong Kong.
SARS and Wuhan viruses bind to the same distinctly shaped protein receptors in the body that are expressed in the lungs and intestines, making these organs the primary targets for both viruses, said Fang Li, an associate professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at the University of Minnesota.
The discovery of the Wuhan virus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, in the fecal material of the 35-year-old man treated at the Providence Regional Medical Center Everett in Washington is “interesting," said Scott Lindquist, the state epidemiologist for infectious disease at Washington’s Department of Health.
“That adds to the knowledge about this," he told reporters on a conference call Friday. “It’s not only excreted in your respiratory secretions, it’s also secreted in your stool."
Researchers don’t yet know how exactly 2019-nCoV spreads from person to person, but suspect it’s most likely from coming into contact with virus-containing droplets that could be emitted by an infected person’s cough and transferred to their hands or surfaces and objects.
Face masks
That’s led to a run on face masks. But those may be of limited benefit in the event the virus is being transmitted via the fecal-oral route, said John Nicholls, a clinical professor of pathology at the University of Hong Kong.
Squat latrines, common in China, lacking covers and hands that aren’t washed thoroughly with soap and water after visiting the bathroom could be a source of virus transmission, said Nicholls, who was part of the research team that isolated and characterized the SARS virus.
A virus-laden aerosol plume emanating from a SARS patient with diarrhea was implicated in possibly hundreds of cases at Hong Kong’s Amoy Gardens housing complex in 2003. That led the city’s researchers to understand the importance of the virus’s spread through the gastrointestinal tract, and to recognize both the limitation of face masks and importance of cleanliness and hygiene, Nicholls said in an interview.
“I think in Wuhan, that would be a very likely place where you might get the transmission" from fecal material, he said. “If it’s using the same receptor as for SARS, I can’t see why it shouldn’t be replicating in the gut."
Nicholls and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong are testing laboratory models of human tissues and specimens to understand where and how the Wuhan virus replicates, he said.
Emerging evidence
Doctors have reported diarrhea infrequently in 2019-nCoV patients admitted to Wuhan hospitals, though it’s been more prominent among reported cases outside the city, including members of a Shenzhen family infected in Wuhan, and more recently in the first US case in Washington state. That patient experienced a two-day bout of diarrhea from which a sample tested positive.
The lab in Washington didn’t attempt to grow the virus from that specimen, said Lindquist, the state epidemiologist, “because it wasn’t going to add anything to his care."
Many of the emerging coronaviruses are so-called pneumoenteric viruses, meaning they can replicate both in the respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal system, said Ralph Baric, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has studied coronaviruses for decades.
Overwhelmed by hundreds of severely sick pneumonia patients, doctors in Wuhan might not have focused on any gastric signs, Baric said in a phone interview.
‘So Overwhelmed’
“The Chinese are so overwhelmed at the moment and trying to do a combination of treating patients and dealing with the scope of the outbreak, and then trying to get out papers that describe what’s happening," he said.
Any virus in stool is more likely to be present during the acute phase of an infection, occuring before hospitalized patients develop a life-threatening complication known as acute respiratory distress syndrome, Baric said.
“I have also spent most of my time focusing on the respiratory tract symptomology rather than the gut because of the relationship between these different emerging viruses and acute respiratory distress syndrome," he said.
Zijian Feng, deputy director general of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and colleagues released a report Wednesday on the first 425 Wuhan cases, and noted that early infections that didn’t appear to display typical signs -- such as fever and viral pneumonia -- or had mild symptoms might have been missed.
“The initial focus of case detection was on patients with pneumonia, but we now understand that some patients can present with gastrointestinal symptoms," Feng and co-authors said in their report, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Emerging evidence of virus-containing diarrhea warrants further investigation, said Peter Collignon, a professor of clinical medicine at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra, who advises the Australian government on infection control.
“This is something new," Collignon said in an interview. “We presume it’s respiratory droplets, but with SARS there was evidence of other routes. We have to keep an open mind."
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Coronavirus, a NWO Bio-Weapon That Can Potentially Kill More Humans Than a False Flag WWIII Event, it's All Trump's Fault! - Capt. Dave Bertrand, Ret.
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You have to ask yourself…..why is this bio-weapon shutting-down China ahead of an impeachment, trade deal with China, and the Tuesday night State of the Union address?
China has been the center piece, power player, and world power for a New World Order.
Russia is no longer under communist rule, mostly Christian, and with America (under Trump), the New World Order hasn’t a chance to succeed.
Most every Democrat Communist NEVER condemns Communist China for their ongoing human rights violations, organ trafficking, and dangerous drugs funneled through Mexico and into the U.S., nor the concentration camps inside China…..but yet, Russia “is our biggest threat, to Americans and [our] election system.”
Now that Trump has secured “phase one” of a trade agreement with China, all of a sudden, China is being punished by the Deep State [Globalists] with a bio-weapon with all the signs of being man-made and stolen from a Canadian lab by Chinese operatives and released in China.
Remember…..most every major country on the planet have Deep State [Globalists] that DO NOT answer to their own government, but answer to a powerful elite that control the world’s banking system, intelligence agencies, the United Nations, and (actually) worship Lucifer by child sacrifices and other warped and dark practices.
As I have said many times….their “Achilles’s Heel” is child sacrifice, cannibalism of infants, child / sex trafficking and most of them compromised by pedophilia acts recorded and held by the elitists and intelligence agencies…..of which Jeffery Epstein was one of the CIA and Mossad’s number one blackmailer of politicians. The Deep State politicians and others are VERY SCARED of what is coming down the pike for them.
Communism is their mechanism for world control of populations and the reduction thereof……
Because a world war III is no longer practical and easily debunked as a false flag…as history has shown us over and over again, the world’s population have awoken, and what a better way to shutdown commerce around the world and put fear and death on the table, but with a global pandemic…..plus, make Trump look bad ahead of the upcoming election in November.
Trump will be blamed for not taking the global threat serious enough (even if he does) and (our) economy could take a major dive if this bio-weapon does as PLANNED.
Trump and others like Nigel Farage (BREXIT), Netanyahu, and Putin are all anti-New World Order and together are all victims of political and treasonous attacks by the Deep State, while China’s Xi has seen the light and now he himself is in the midst of a global shutdown by the Deep State for making a trade deal with Trump.
We know the Coronavirus was a pre-planned attack by the Deep State with a computer model scenario months ago. (source Infowars).
ANY and ALL information about this false flag attack on humanity with a bio-weapon is being banned from Twitter and other social media platforms.
There are more deaths from the general flu each year than what is being reported about this bio-weapon that has strains of HIV insertions, most likely created in the Canadian lab.
“Last year a mysterious shipment was caught smuggling Coronavirus from Canada. It was traced to Chinese agents working at a Canadian lab. Subsequent investigation by GreatGameIndia linked the agents to Chinese Biological Warfare Program from where the virus is suspected to have leaked causing the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coronavirus-...
The big question on everyone’s mind…”will this Coronavirus fizzle away like the SAR scare?”
That’s the million dollar question and knowing the Deep State is now…more than ever desperate to get rid of Trump, since he will be acquitted Wednesday, has sent the Democrat Communist over the cliff and anything is (now) possible.
Be prepared and watch your local food stores as panic could easily empty shelves, but more importantly, keep a level head and watch all reports that surface in the next couple weeks. When people (IN OUR COUNTRY) begin to drop dead by the thousands, which I don’t think we will see that, then and only then, get prepared for the long haul.
Lucifer and evil we cannot see in the sky, or around us, is real…..and his dedicated satanist followers in the Deep State (and those that do it for the money) are the creatures that want to kill us.
This could be our WW III……