The El Coronavirus

Curiosities, facts about the virus, the disease and aspects that you did not know.

  • Javier Israel Soliz Campos Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno
Keywords: Coronavirus, Pandemia, Educación

Abstract

During the year 2019 and this 2020, humanity has been attacked by a series of natural disasters (wildfires), pandemics (COVID 19) and a noticeable effect on the inhabitants of climate change and global warming.
In this article, it is disclosed what the coronavirus is, where it originates from, what it produces in the human body, how the disease is transmitted and how we can prevent it. Everything in a simple and clear language, for the understanding of a large number of people; so that we stop fearing something we don't know, since knowledge gives us power and takes away fear.
Because we will all get ahead together.

This article is a bibliographic review, since coronaviruses originate from the Latin name “corona”, which in turn is a word taken from the Greek “κορώνη”, which means crown or garland.
They are large pleomorphic spherical particles, with bulbous surfaces, the average diameter of the envelope is 80nm (nanometers) and the spicules (or beaks) are 20nm long. The envelope consists of a double layer of lipids (fats), where three types of structural proteins are anchored (the membrane type M, the envelope type E and the spike type S); however, another subset of coronavirus has another surface protein, called HE, of hemagglutinin esterase.
In humans, they were discovered in 1960, in patients with the common cold (or so the human doctors of the time thought). They named them human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43 and the first photo taken of both viruses was taken by Scottish virologist June Almeida (virologist), at Saint Thomas Hospital in London. Since that time, SARS-CoV in 2003, JCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS CoV in 2012 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 (COVD 19) have appeared; most of them having serious respiratory infections.

Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
Javier Israel Soliz Campos. (2020). The El Coronavirus: Curiosities, facts about the virus, the disease and aspects that you did not know. Revista Electronica De Veterinaria, 50 - 61. Retrieved from https://veterinaria.org/index.php/REDVET/article/view/38
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