Suppose a breakfast, 100 people who are positive in coronavirus reach a country on the planet where not a single case of the new influenza strain has been recorded, for example in the Kiribati archipelago of Oceania, the South Pacific Nauru Republic or the Tongan kingdom of about 170 islands scattered throughout the New Zealand.
Bearing in mind the fact that every every person infected by him Covid-19 It spreads the disease worldwide to an average of about 3,5 people, these 100 should infect another 350 which in turn will infect another 350 and so on, right; Error! The transmission speed will be much higher and even from the very first link of the chain, from the 100 positive in the virus that entered the virgin from the disease country.
For at least two decades the scientific community has found that in the transmission of infectious diseases unfortunately not everyone is equal and the so-called 20/80 rule applies. That is, about 20% of the carriers transmit the infections to much more than the average. These transmitters και have also been identified in the coronavirus and are not numerically negligible, we are talking about almost one in 5 vectors.
The reason why this is happening has not yet been clarified by scholars. Most likely it is due to multiple factors. For example, their immune system may not easily suppress the Sars-Cov2 coronavirus (despite the fact that the person has absolutely no symptoms and feels well) or there may be an increased dose of the virus in the body or a combination of the two or something. different. One thing is for sure though. That it is impossible to know who is the new strain of the new flu strain and who is not. Of course he does not know either.
A typical case has been reported by the British newspaper "The Guardian", of a 50-year-old Englishman who became infected with the coronavirus when the disease first became known, when he went to Singapore to attend a scheduled professional conference. Unaware that he was already carrying the virus, he then went to the French alpine resort of Le Condamine Monzua (near the border with Italy) to ski. Returning by air to the United Kingdom, he begins to show the first symptoms and doing the test in the area of Brighton is positive for the coronavirus. He is immediately quarantined, but the damage has been done.
Tracing his contacts, he found that he had infected at least 5 other people in the French chalet, including a 9-year-old boy. Along with the coronavirus, persons who had attended the Singapore conference and had intercourse with him were also found, while the people sitting in the seats of the plane around him were also under examination. A single vector had inadvertently infected many more than the average.
The same goes for others infectious diseases. In the distant 1900 a woman was found with a typhus that had infected 51 people. More recently, in 1995, two people alone reportedly infected 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Ebola virus, which causes severe haemorrhagic fever, while in 1998, a student in Finland with measles infected another 22 despite the fact that 8 of them had been vaccinated.
Finally, in the two years 2002-2003, when the Sars Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak (caused by rhinoceros bats in the caves of China's Yunnan Province) broke out, people were found again, this time in Singapore, infecting up to 10 people. everyone.
In this case, in the context of tackling the coronavirus, in order to stop all this evil and prevent the transmitters from acting uncontrollably, which may potentially be us, we should reduce lifelong contacts and all wear mask. There is no other solution until the vaccine is first released and then the drug against Coronavirus disease 2019, or otherwise the acute respiratory law 2019-nCoV as the coronavirus is scientifically known.
And it concerns everyone, whether they are super-transmitters or not as the first to be protected are those who belong to the so-called vulnerable groups of the population, so that they are not required to be hospitalized in an intensive care unit and some of them lose their lives. their.