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The virus accumulates in digestive organs and sheds in fecal matter. Gastrointestinal (fecal-oral) infection route seems likely. See: - https://www.medrxiv.or
by Blahah 7y ago
The virus accumulates in digestive organs and sheds in fecal matter. Gastrointestinal (fecal-oral) infection route seems likely.
See:
- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v...
- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v...
> Compared with SARS, COVID-19 was transmitted in a more diverse way, from person to person, asymptomatic infected people and possible fecal-oral transmission, created the conditions for a large-scale spread.
- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v...
- allovernow 7y agoI've grown tired of pulling up sources on mobile but publications claim the virus accumulates in nasal passaged during incubation. Also thought to play a role in the high false negative rates for testing.
- Blahah 7y agoThis is also true - digestive and respiratory organs appear to accumulate the virus most. Also heart and liver, which explains the high co-morbidity for people with damage to those organs. See http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082 http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082
- allovernow 7y agoLooks like any organ with ACE2 receptors.