Some experts sound the alarm after the discovery of a never-seen virus in the US, which is from a deadly family of pathogens.
Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia revealed this week that they had discovered the Camp Hill -Virus in Smrews in Alabama.
The Camp Hill -Virus is part of the Henipavirus family, which also includes the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, which are among the largest pandemic threats in the world health organization and kill up to 70 percent of the people they infect.
Dr. David Dyjack, an expert in the field of public health at the National Environmental Health Association, which was not involved in the research, Dailymail.com told that a new virus like this could be 'threatening for all humanity'.
He said: 'As far as we are concerned, public health is that we have this virus [we believe] A very high death rate, and if it were to mutate and convey to a person, and attack the kidneys, as we have seen in some animals, which can threaten especially for all humanity. '
The Camp Hill virus still needs to infect another person, so little is known about it, but other pathogens in the same family can cause spinal cord and brain inflammation, brain swelling, respiratory cabinet, kidney damage and liver damage.
Dr. Dyjack added: 'I would say there are three things that keep me awake at night: one is a nuclear war. The second is the implications of a changing climate, and the third is a global pandemic, and the Camp Hill virus is square in the Bullseye of Pandemic Care. '
Other experts are less alerted about the discovery, such as Dr. Donald Burke, an epidemiologist who predicted a global coronavirus pandemie two decades before the 2020 crisis. He told DailyMail.com that Camp Hill will probably not cause an epidemic '
The novelty of the Camp Hill -Virus means that scientists have more questions than answers and its genomic sequence does not yet offer information about seriousness or transferability.
Although it contains data that prove that it is able to infect human cells, Dr. Adam Hume, a virologist at the University of Boston, at Dailymail.com: 'That doesn't tell you if it would be pathogen [cause disease] Or not, but if it can't come in human cells, it tells you that it is probably not pathogen. '
Dr. Hume, who was not involved in the Australian research, added: 'We don't know enough at the moment. Maybe one day in the future, we would be able to determine a little [transmissibility and virulence]. '
Researchers from the University of Queensland conquered four northern short-shrews (Blarina Brevicauda) in Alabama as part of a study on aging of mammals in 2021.
They analyzed tissue samples of the animals and discovered genetic material from the Camp Hill virus.
The virus was mainly found in the kidneys of the Shrews, which suggests that it would attack the same organs in people.
Dr. Rhys Parry of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said: the closest Henipavirus to Camp Hill -Virus that caused disease in humans is the Langya virus, which crossed from strikers to people in China.
“This indicates that the transmission can occur from slanted to human.”
Nipah Virus, which is located in the same family of viruses as the newly discovered Camp Hill -Virus, has a Mortaliy percentage that approaches 70 percent
Langya virus, such as Camp Hill, Nipah and Hedra, belongs to the Henipavirus family. It generally causes mild symptoms, including coughing, fatigue and fever.
Nipah and Hendra viruses can prove to be much more serious. The nipah virus causes serious respiratory cabinet, brain inflammation and swelling and potential organ failure.
Hendra -virus causes similar inflammation and respiratory failure, as well as pneumonia.
Although scientists do not know how the Camp Hill virus can manifest itself in a human patient, they can make some well -trained guesses based on symptoms of other Henipairuses.
Dr. David Dyjack, depicted, said Dailymail.com that the threat of another pandemic keeps him awake at night
When exposing other Henipairuses by contacting the body fluids of infected animals, contaminated fruit or have close contact with someone infected, a protein on the surface binds to another protein on the cell membranes of the person in different tissues in the body, Including the lungs, brain and blood vessels.
When the proteins connect to each other, the virus pathogen combines with the host cell and contributes some RNA. The virus then hijacking cells to allow them to replicate genetic material and produce even more viral proteins that infect more cells.
There are indications that henipairuses can be spread by breathing drops, but this is not fully understood.
Dr. Dyjack said: 'As we saw with Covid, it was in the beginning unclear whether these were fomites – organisms on surfaces – or whether it was in the air. It appears that it was in the air.
For something like this, when it is in the air, that causes me great suffering as a professional in public health. '
The novelty of the Camp Hill virus means that scientists have more questions than answers. Yet the new virus is not seen in people (AI-generated image)
Symptoms of Henipavirus infection occur about five days to three weeks after exposure to the body fluids of infected animals. It kills around 70 percent of the infected people.
The infection to symptom time of the nipah virus is shorter, about three to 14 days after exposure. It kills between 40 and 75 percent of his victims.
Dr. Dyjack said that the open question about how the virus is changing and to whom it can go over is of particular importance.
He told DailyMail.com: 'Viruses mutate with an extraordinary speed. They can be locked up in an individual species, but over time, those mutations in the organ that naturally occur, as we saw in Covid. To be honest, that is in our opinion in public health. '
It is not clear whether Schoens are the reservoir of the Camp Hill virus or just an intermediary animal that it organizes after it has been passed on by the real reservoir, such as fruit bats.
If the virus would mutate in specific ways within strikers, this would improve his ability to bind to cunning cell receptors, spread more efficiently under pointed muscles and survive longer outside the host.
While some scientists, including those from Australia who discovered the virus, expressed their concern about its potential for a crisis in public health, others do not believe it is a threat to people.
In the meantime, Dr. David Quammen, a science writer whose book Spillover the prediction of Dr. Burke over the following pandemic quoted, to Dailymail.com: 'I am not saying that the discovery of a new Henipavirus is not something to take seriously. It is.
The typical host is fruit bats, but the newest discovery in the Scheiden in Alabama suggests that the range of the virus is much wider than previously believed
“It can be worrying. But at the moment, if the net has just been found in a tension in Alabama, it is not worrying. '
He added: “The news that we get every day about bird flu is much, much more worries for me than the news of a Henipavirus in Smrews in Alabama.”
In 2018, the WHO identified nine priority diseases (mentioned) that are the greatest risk to public health. Henipairuses, including Camp Hill and Nipah, were among the most threatening
Yet Dr. Dyjack that the US “have the right conditions here for the next pandemic.”
He said: 'We have a mammal that is wearing a virus in which there is no vaccination, we are not necessarily to this virus, in which case the clinical community is not prepared for it.
“And so the circumstances under which it might be transferred by a horse or a pig or something to a person, and then that it exists in a human population without actually being detected for a while now, now in the US.”
When exposing other Henipairuses, a protein on the surface binds to another protein on the cell membranes of the person in different tissues in the body, including the lungs, brains and blood vessels.
When the proteins connect to each other, the virus pathogen combines with the host cell and contributes some RNA. The virus then hijacking cells to allow them to replicate genetic material and produce even more viral proteins that infect more cells.
Dr. Dyjack added: 'There is more that we do not know than we know if it relates to public health, such as tissue and human health. At first glance, that is alarming, especially because it has been identified in the home country. '
