A highly contagious virus was found in Nigeria and a giant virus was found in Brazil. What happened?

On June 29, 2020, 65438+1October 29, 2020, a highly contagious new virus was discovered in Nigeria. Within one week, 100 people were infected and 15 people died. Recently, a mysterious virus was discovered in Brazil, and 90% of the genes were unrecognizable. This is a new virus that humans have never seen before.

This year seems destined to be a disastrous year for the whole world. No sooner had the fire in Australia been extinguished than the flood came. During his stay in Spring Festival travel rush, China, novel coronavirus broke out, and more than 70,000 people were infected and more than 2,000 people died. It's still being treated. There was a flu in the United States that lasted for half a year and killed more than 6,000 people. After more than three years of development, the new AIDS vaccine failed. Recently, a virus broke out suddenly in Nigeria, which is extremely contagious. In just one week, hundreds of people were infected, 15 people died, and all the first four infected people died within 48 hours, because of headache, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, weakness and bloating.

Recently, Brazilian scientists discovered a mysterious giant virus with unknown genome in the artificial lake of Pafa in Belo Horizonta. More than 90% of the genes of this mysterious giant virus cannot be identified. Giant viruses, as the name implies, are relatively large viruses. They were mainly discovered at the beginning of this century. Not only are they larger and their genomes more complex, but this virus can also synthesize protein for DNA repair, replication and transcription.

At the beginning of this year, various countries began to face all kinds of unfortunate news, but it is also good news to remind people to pay attention to and study them in advance to prevent them from posing greater threats in the future.

After all, the difficulties are only temporary. Whether it is new pneumonia, new Nigerian virus or Brazilian giant virus, we will find ways to deal with it and protect people's safety.