Scientists narrow in how some people stayed COVID free
Almost a month into it, a deadly outbreak of diarrhoea continues to sweep through the country, killing over 10 with hundreds more receiving treatment. The outbreak was first detected around the last week of August when the Health ministry noticed an incre
in children and can lead to complications like dehydration, which can be serious if not managed promptly.
To date, the source of the alarming outbreak has not yet been identified. In a statement last week Thursday, the ministry revealed the total number of reported that diarrhoea cases around the Mahalapye area stood at 592, Bobirwa 511, Gaborone
485 cases, Boteti 435, Ngami 250, Kweneng
East 232, Francistown 205, Selebi-Phikwe
221, Tonota 193 and Chobe 68 cases. This indicates a widespread outbreak. This has resulted in a total of eleven (11) deaths and the numbers are rising. By Monday this week however, the ministry was still compiling latest statistics. The most common cause of diarrhoea is viral infection such as rotavirus.
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Antibodies are proteins that but in the first 34 people the immune system makes to to take part, only half of them help fight infection and protect developed an infection. the body from getting sick in Some people with genetic the future. There are different invulnerability may not get infected antibodies which attack, or because of their rare and stick to, different parts of the lucky genetic mutation that virus. Antibody tests can detect shields them from the virus the presence of antibodies in completely. This is also seen in serum within days to weeks other diseases such as HIV (human after an acute infection. The immunodeficiency virus). tests focus on two types of A mutation in such people’s antibodies – genetic codes locks their body’s
-Anti-S antibodies which cells so the HIV cannot get stick to a protein on the surface inside at all. Similar mutations of the virus called spike have been shown to lock
-Anti-N antibodies that stick Coronavirus out of people’s to an inner layer of the virus cells, reports BBC. This can called the nucleocapsid, that aid in the development of next protects the virus’s genetic generation treatments.