That is the exact opposite of human immunity works. This is utter gutter bilge concocted by fantasy not science.
Of course we do not know the full details of covid-19 . It was discovered just a few weeks ago. Flu has been known about and studied scientifically for generations.
One difference between flu and covid-19 is its stability . Unlike flu which is mutating frequently , covid-19 maintains genetic stability.
This is a weakness that vaccines and drugs will exploit in the coming months/years
How does the coronavirus attack the human body? Scientists reveal the deadly illness kills off lung cells and can cause the immune system to go 'haywire'
- The virus infects cells in the lungs and can kill them off and trigger pneumonia
- It may cause the immune system to go into overdrive and attack healthy tissue
- There are signs it damages other organs such as the kidneys and liver
- Around 90,000 people worldwide have been infected and 3,000 have died
- Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?
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SAM BLANCHARD SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:32 EDT, 2 March 2020 | UPDATED: 16:44 EDT, 2 March 2020
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coronavirus could damage people's kidneys and send their immune systems 'haywire' as well as infecting the lungs, according to scientists.
More than 90,000 people have now been infected with the disease, which is known to cause serious lung damage and deadly pneumonia.
It does this by attaching to and reproducing in tissue inside the lungs, where it kills cells in the process of spreading.
As the cells are killed they drop off the lungs' linings and build up in clumps inside the organs, making it hard to breathe and triggering further infections.
The virus can also send the immune system into overdrive as it tries to fight off infection, triggering swelling which can lead to more breathing difficulties.
If a severe infection takes hold it may move on to cause damage or dysfunction to the stomach, intestines, heart, liver and kidneys, and even provoke organ failure.
Around 90,000 people around the world have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of January, and more than 3,000 patients have died.
It comes as scientists today warned the coronavirus could become an infection that never goes away and causes seasonal outbreaks of illness, like flu.
Experts say the difficulty of containing the coronavirus is that so many patients have mild, cold-like symptoms and don't realise they have the infection – but it can quickly turn deadly
The coronavirus outbreak, which is teetering on the edge of becoming a global pandemic, has so far infected almost 90,000 people worldwide and killed more than 3,000
The coronavirus is officially a respiratory infection, meaning it affects the lungs and airways. Typical symptoms are a cough, trouble breathing and a fever.
Among people who die from the infection – around 3.4 per cent of all patients, according to latest figures – most suffer from pneumonia, a lung infection which causes the airways to fill with fluid.
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Professor Mark Fielder, a biologist at Kingston University in London, said scientists have recently pinpointed the types of cells the virus appears to attack.
COULD CORONAVIRUS BE SEASONAL?
The coronavirus could become an infection that never goes away and causes seasonal outbreaks of illness, according to scientists.
Countries around the world are in the grip of the first ever epidemics of the virus, which has infected around 90,000 people and killed more than 3,000.
While the number of cases in
South Korea,
Italy and
Iran continue to soar, the spread of the infection is beginning to come under control in
China.
But scientists now say the coronavirus may never go away completely and that it could become a perennial illness like colds, chest infections and flu.
These are viral illnesses that go round every winter, cannot be cured and that people often don't development immunity to because they change so often.
The coronavirus, which has so far killed just over three per cent of everyone who has caught it, could follow in the same footsteps and become a normalised illness.
He told Sky News that goblet cells and ciliated cells are the ones most affected by the coronavirus.
They are responsible for keeping the inside of the lungs moist and clearing them of any debris like dust or bacteria.
'The problem we've got here is the virus infects these cells and starts to kill them,' Professor Fielder said.
'And as it kills them as part of its replication process, tissue falls into the lungs, and the lungs start to get blockages. And that blockage might mean that the patient develops pneumonia.'
This could trigger pneumonia as the viruses and dead tissue clog up parts of the lungs and make them swell up, producing fluid which can block breathing.
The immune system can also worsen the symptoms of COVID-19 by going 'haywire' and damaging healthy tissue in its attempts to stop the virus, Professor Fielder said.
He told Sky: 'It can actually almost over attack, and become what we call hyperimmune, and set up a large attack which can then start to damage the healthy tissue underneath.'
The coronavirus may also damage other internal organs as it takes hold in the body.
Researchers have found signs that coronavirus patients have had damaged livers and kidneys, but there is little evidence to prove the virus caused it.
Lung problems can reduce the amount of oxygen which circulates through the body, Dr James Cherry at the University of California, Los Angeles told
Healthline, in turn starving organs like the kidneys of the oxygen they need to function properly.
Organ failure is a serious health emergency and can kill if it's not repaired quickly.
Dr Laura Evans, from the University of Washington, added that a 'good proportion' of people with severe coronavirus infections developed problems with other organs.
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