Pécs university research finds coronavirus can spread via fecal transmission

Scientists at Hungary’s University of Pécs (PTE) have become the first in Europe to isolate the novel coronavirus from a Covid-19 patient’s fecal sample, virologist Ferenc Jakab, who heads the coronavirus medication and vaccine research group, said on Wednesday.

Though several research teams around the world have confirmed the presence of the virus in fecal matter, no European researchers have managed to isolate the virus from a sample until now, Jakab told MTI. The discovery made by the team led by Gábor Kemenesi

“clearly suggests” that the virus can be spread via fecal transmission,

he added.

Though the virus’s main route of transmission is still believed to be through respiratory droplets, the discovery made by the PTE team can be useful in finding ways of defending against the virus, Jakab said.

As we wrote a few days ago, the Alkaloida Ltd. in the Eastern-Hungarian city of Tiszavasvári is only waiting for the permission of the authorities. If that arrives, they can start the mass production of a medicine easing the symptoms of the virus. This pill is being made for Hungarian patients in the first place, and exporting its active substance is forbidden by the government, read more details HERE.

Also we wrote before, the scientists of the Óbuda University design the machine and, of course, it would be used to help coronavirus patients to breathe. Such constructions are not only needed to pump air into the lungs of the patients but also have to clean the virus-rich air coming out of their body. Details HERE.

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