Open AccessMitos y verdades alrededor del SARS-CoV-2
Author(s) -
Ericel Hernández-García
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ra rió guendaruyubi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2594-0562
pISSN - 2594-0554
DOI - 10.53331/rar.v3i9.4855
Subject(s) - virology , virus , rna virus , biology , pandemic , dengue fever , covid-19 , dengue virus , coronavirus , rna , medicine , genetics , gene , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19), emerged at the end of 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, since then it has spread around the world causing a pandemic that caused many human and economic losses. Many myths arose about this virus because it was thought that it could have been developed in a laboratory as a type of biological weapon, that the mosquito that transmits dengue fever could also transmit SARS-CoV-2 and high or low temperatures could inactivate it. However, there is scientific evidence that has unmasked these myths, Molecular Biology techniques determined that it is not possible with current technology to produce a ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus of this magnitude, since it is difficult to generate the precise mutations to determine that this virus was elaborated in a laboratory. It has also been observed that the virus is only transmitted by naturally produced aerosols such as saliva and so far, there is no evidence that shows the dengue mosquito transmits SARS-CoV-2. Similarly, it has been observed that pets can get this virus, but they do not have the ability to infect humans. Finally, high or low temperatures do not inactivate the virus, because as seen, infections by SARS-CoV-2 have occurred in people who live both at the equator and near the poles.