2023-12-06 21:50:18
A virus very similar to malaria and dengue fever… first report of a new virus with symptoms of flu meningitis
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It was reported that a man in his 20s in Peru was infected with an unknown new virus known to be very similar to malaria and dengue fever. [사진=게티이미지뱅크]The academic world is on edge following a man in his 20s in Peru was infected with a new virus that had never been reported before.
The man was infected with an unknown virus known to be very similar to malaria and dengue fever, and the medical staff who discovered this pathogen warned of the risk of the virus spreading in the jungles of central Peru, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, The Sun, and IFS on the 5th local time. Major foreign media such as science reported this.
recent <신종 전염병 저널(journal Emerging Infectious Diseases)>According to the announcement, the unidentified man was a construction worker who was admitted to De La Merced Chanchamayo Hospital in central Peru in June 2019 following showing typical flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, muscle pain, and joint pain. did. Symptoms included headache, fatigue, sensitivity to light, and loss of appetite.
Hospital staff took blood samples and sent them to the U.S. Naval Medical Research Laboratory in Lima for more accurate testing. As a result of analyzing the blood sample at the virology laboratory, Candiru phlebovirus was detected. However, the explanation is that the man appears to have been infected with a new virus, which is believed to be a variant of the Echrate virus (ECHV), as part of the virus showed differences from the candiru virus that ‘cannot be explained by mutation.’
Ezzarate virus is one of the phleboviruses found in Central and South America, especially Peru. There are regarding 70 types of phleboviruses that are mainly transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks, and only 9 of these have been confirmed to cause fever illness in Central and South America. Infection causes meningitis, a condition that causes fever, severe headaches, muscle pain, and swelling of the brain. According to the researchers, hantavirus, which is transmitted by deer mice, and the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever belong to the same group of viruses.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some types of ekarate virus can cause non-specific symptoms in humans and are often misdiagnosed as dengue fever, malaria, or influenza. Clinical symptoms range from high fever, severe headache, myalgia, and aseptic meningitis to mild or severe meningitis.
“These results suggest that a new strain of Ecarate virus is circulating in the jungles of central Peru,” said Dr. Gilda Tronkos, who led the study on the new virus. “Continuous surveillance is necessary,” he warned.
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