Viruses are
very intolerant to high temperatures since they are believed to have originated
from outer space as many scientists in astro-biology are convinced
Deep Freeze in
Suspended Animation:
Originally
viruses such as coronaviruses remain “hibernated” as pre-life molecules or in
suspended animation for at least 3.6 – 4.0 billion years in the frigid of
interstellar space where I believe they came from, and definitely not
spontaneously generated by or from bats, or artificially created in a
laboratory.
The CMB
(Cosmic Microwave Background) temperature in outer space after the Big Bang is
no higher than just 3 Kelvin (3.0 degrees above absolute temperature) or
2.72548±0.00057 Kelvin to be exact, and at such temperature all molecular
movements almost totally freeze, and where all “life” and pre-life can remain
eternally latent
Habitable
Earth:
There they
remain in deep, deep freeze in the frigid of outer space for almost all
eternity until they arrive on a horrendously long, dark, cold and lonely
journey to Earth from the Ort Cloud or brought along by
passing comets to shower Earth with
their virus-laden cosmic dusts like seeds being thrown
and sowed on soft, ambient, water-rich grounds on this planet to
geminate and multiply among the myriads of living
hosts and the profusion of biodiversity such as birds, camels, bats
and the pangolins that entertain them.
Bite the Hand
that Feeds:
However, if
they jump hosts from animals to humans in a zoonotic manner and threaten humans
for their “hospitality”, humans will generate unfavourably conditions for their
survival such as a fever as an immunological response. It is a tit-for tat
retort Nature provides us for our survival as prescribes by the natural
biological laws of selection and evolution
Hence, it is
extremely crucial that once a fever is elicited by the body it should never be
suppressed by any antipyretics (drugs that subdue fever) such as using
paracetamol or aspirin, but the fever be left alone or even encouraged by a
warm bath provided it is not too high to cause fever convulsions
A fever is
purposely induced by the body to fight an infection and should not be
interfered with by using drugs to suppress this natural physiological response
to any infection, unless it is too high that can cause febrile seizures and
epilepsy especially in children
Febrile seizures
in children normally begins when the body temperature is raised from 33.4 ±
0.16 °C to 40.74 ± 0.13 °C (the seizure-threshold temperature) and seizure can
begin in 2.9 min.
In such event,
the body (oral) temperature can be sponged down by tepid or cool water to
manageable levels between 37.5 – 36.9 0 C depending on age
between 0 – 2 years till over 65 respectively
Climate
Temperature and Covid-19 Spread:
We can also
observe a much higher prevalence rate of the current pandemic distribution of
the coronavirus infection in the colder winter climates like
in China, United States and Europe compared to the
warmer tropical countries like Malaysia and the entire SE Asia where
infection rates, degrees of morbidity and mortality rates are much
lower during the winter months between December 2019 and currently
in May 2020 when the pandemic spread fast - if we are
scientifically observant enough
This
hypothesis of temperature-infection relationship is also observed by scientists
in a study at the prestigious MIT that warm, humid climate is linked to a
slower COVID-19 transmission here:
As a former
medical research scientist myself who previously worked at MIT, I too concur
with them, and also my conviction
1 comment:
I have always wondered if viruses are microorganisms like bacteria or something else. Maybe you can tell us
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