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Coronavirus 229E Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/2/2020
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Passing the time while waiting out the virus, did a lot of research on the actual virus and found many different forms/strains.


All information regarding the coronavirus is taken directly from Wikipedia


229E (alpha coronavirus)

Description:

Human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E) is a species of coronavirus which infects humans and bats. The infecting virus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which enters its host cell by binding to the APN receptor. Along with Human coronavirus OC43, it is one of the viruses responsible for the common cold. The species is a member of the genus Alphacoronavirus and subgenus Duvinacovirus.

Transmission:

HCoV-229E transmits via droplet-respiration and fomites.

Symptoms:

HCoV-229E is associated with a range of respiratory symptoms, ranging from the common cold to high-morbidity outcomes such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis. However, such high morbidity outcomes are always seen in cases with coinfection with other respiratory pathogens with a single reported exception; although infection with 229E alone is almost exclusively associated with asymptomatic or mild disease there is a single published case report to date of a 229E infection that caused acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in an otherwise healthy patient having no detectable coinfection with another pathogen.[7] HCoV-229E is also among the coronaviruses most frequently codetected with other respiratory viruses, particularly with human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV).

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