About Corona Virus

The Founder of Corona Virus

He is Ali Mohamed Zaki who is a virus expert who has worked at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The story begins with a doctor who is worried about a patient suffering from acute pneumonia. Zaki finally tried to identify the patient's disease. The 60-year-old patient has been hospitalized for a severe pneumonia virus and the doctor wants Zaki to identify the virus. Zaki obtained phlegm from the patient and started working. He runs the usual lab tests. One by one they were tested again and the tests showed negative. Confused by the results, Zaki sent samples to the leading virology laboratory at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. While waiting for the Dutch team to check the virus, Zaki tried one more test. This time he got positive results. That shows an infectious agent belonging to a family of pathogens called Coronavirus or Corona Virus. The common cold is caused by Coronavirus. Likewise, SARS infection is far more deadly.

Zaki quickly sent an email to the Dutch lab to sound the alarm. Their test confirmed his fear, but went further; This is a Corona virus that has never been seen before. To remind other scientists, Zaki posted a note about ProMED, an internet reporting system designed to quickly share details of infectious diseases and epidemics with researchers and public health agencies.

How serious the problem was at that time. While Zaki has worked to identify the virus, where the patient's health has declined. The pneumonia worsened; his breathing is getting shorter. The kidneys and other organs begin to falter and fail. Apart from all the drugs and analyzed, and mechanical ventilation to help him breathe, the man died 11 days after he arrived at the hospital. The case of the Jeddah virus at that time was more interesting than frightening. Although much is made of viruses related to the one that causes SARS, which spread to more than 30 countries and killed 800 people in 2003, the two are genetically very different.

Zaki's new virus may be hiding in farm animals in Saudi Arabia and possibly from Jordan and Qatar, but those countries are also major importers of animals.