Specialists from Vietnam discovered a new deadly virus
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Vietnamese scientists managed to find out that some cycloviruses, which previously were considered harmless to human health, can cause diseases with a fatal outcome. With a careful survey of a large number of patients in Asian clinics, the researchers determined that a new virus can contribute to the formation of a dangerous neuroinfective.
Over the course of several months, specialists were engaged in the study of analyzes, case histories and examination of patients of Vietnamese clinics, who suffer from acute brain diseases. The leaders of the study consider it important that until recently cycloviruses were not considered deadly. After the end of the study, all data were published in local medical publications.
In fact, scientists are not yet sure that the discovered cyclovirus is the cause of the formation of a neuroinfectious disease, but important doctors believe that the source of infection, in the course of the study, was found in an unusual place. This time, the sources of infection were seen in the spinal fluid, in which up to this point there were no viruses and other infectious pathogens. European colleagues of Vietnamese researchers agreed that this issue requires detailed and immediate examination, since the scale of the threat that this discovery may conceal is still unclear.
Dangerous to human health and human life, neuropathies are usually caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, but it often happens that the cause of the disease remains unknown.
According to Vietnamese doctors, the results of the study opened medicine to one of the potential causes of the emergence of acute neuropathies. During the examination of patients, about 1,700 samples of the spinal cord fluid were studied. All participants in the experiment were affected by viral encephalitis or other neuroinfections.
In 5% of patients, a cyclovirus was found in the spinal cord fluid, which was not found in the descriptions of the disease until this point. Further study of the issue showed that this cyclovirus was noticed some time ago in the brain tissues of large animals.
Scientists are sure that this cyclovirus is not dangerous for people who did not tolerate infectious diseases of the nervous system. On the other hand, it turned out that domestic animals living in the region were also affected by the virus.
To date, experts are trying to grow cyclovirus in the laboratory and will soon begin to develop new tests that determine the presence of natural antibodies that can fight it in the human body. Some physicians believe that the presence of such antibodies in the blood can confirm the danger of cyclovirus for the human body.
A study in the Vietnamese clinic is certainly important for modern medicine. The results of this work proved the possibility of infection in the spinal fluid, which was not known before.
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