Ebola-related virus discovered in bats in Hungary!
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- 16 Jun 2022
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Hungarian researchers detected and isolated the so-called Lloviu virus in bats in Hungary. In laboratory conditions, the virus can infect humans. But in nature, all viruses behave differently. There are a lot of questions, but nobody should be afraid of a pandemic. The discovery is nothing more than a scientific achievement, experts highlighted. Furthermore, we know that it cannot cause infections similar to the Ebola or Marburg viruses. Nobody should be afraid of the new virus According to 24.hu, experts are constantly searching for new viruses that might cause similar pandemics as the coronavirus did in the past two years.
After seven years of hard work, Hungarian researchers identified a filovirus called Lloviu. That is a distant European relative of the Ebola. However, researchers found the virus in bats living far away from any human settlements in Hungary.
Researchers have to examine it Mr Kemenesi said that the virus was previously identified in Italy and is probably present in every country where bent-wing bats live. However, according to their current knowledge, nobody should be concerned about a possible pandemic. The researchers isolated the new virus and are now examining whether it can infect human cells. But even if it does, that does not mean it could infect a human body. They are working together with American colleagues and found that the new virus cannot cause illnesses like the Ebola or Marburg.
They published their findings in Plos Pathogens. The virus is now on the long list of pathogens that need to be examined to avoid the outbreak of a possible pandemic. Humanity learned about filoviruses in 1967 when German researchers worked with grivets caught in Africa to develop vaccines in Marburg. However, a deadly virus infected 31 of them, causing the death of seven researchers. The new virus was named after the city. Meanwhile, the Ebola virus was identified in 1976, near the Ebola River, in Congo. Its mortality rate is above 50%, and it continues to generate new waves of the pandemic. Thanks to a new medicine, in 2019, the mortality rate could be reduced to below six pc
