An Asian man carrying a masks has problem respiratory and has a aspect impact after affected by COVID-19.
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Questions:
1. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. Name the foundations, first adopted in 1969, that require the WHO’s member states to reply swiftly in response to such a declaration.
2. The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. The ‘positive-sense’ refers to a genome that capabilities as a ____ molecule. The virus makes use of this molecule as a template based mostly on which a cell, like within the human physique, can ‘manufacture’ extra copies of the virus. Fill within the clean.
3. Name the 2 scientists who gained the Nobel Prize for drugs/physiology in 2023 for the work that laid the foundations for the quickest vaccine growth programme in historical past to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic.
4. Name the Chinese pulmonologist who recorded a cluster of pneumonia circumstances on December 26 and reported it to the Chinese Centres for Disease Control (CCDC) the subsequent day. Based on her report, one firm sequenced genomes from these sufferers and reported a “novel coronavirus” to the CCDC.
5. As COVID-19 unfold in waves worldwide, researchers thought-about repurposing present medicine to deal with infections. Of these, 4 common ones have been hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, __________, and ritonavir. None of them have a confirmed skill to deal with COVID-19. Fill within the clean with the title of a drug whose major function is treating hepatitis C.
This is a mannequin of SARS-CoV-2. What are the turquoise ‘blossoms’ rooted within the virus’s envelope (blue) referred to as?
Answers:
1. International Health Regulations
2. mRNA
3. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissmann
4. Zhang Jixian
5. Remdesivir
Visual: Spike glycoproteins (a.ok.a. spike proteins)
