Dangerous challenges from mutations of the virus that causes Covid-19 1
The deadly Covid-19 outbreak shows the eternal danger from easily mutated viruses, while also highlighting a number of urgent issues.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global disaster, threatening the world economy and even the basic social fabric.
Bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens all undergo evolution.
The emergence of the new coronavirus may be the result of a long evolutionary process of viruses.
Infectious diseases have only been controlled in the past 100 years.
Natural mutation
Bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens all undergo evolution.
That is why antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged, through random mutation events in an environment characterized by overuse of antibiotics.
Like organisms, viruses continuously mutate.
Occasionally random mutations can increase the infectivity of the virus and its virulence.
As these highly virulent strains proliferate in sparsely populated areas, their impact will be localized and not easily spread.
Economic connection factor
Pathogen mutations also occur in densely populated areas of developing countries.
For example, in 2014, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa broke out in populous capitals but was ultimately contained within the region with few exceptions.
But as Africa develops economically and the world becomes more interconnected, the possibility of pandemics becomes greater.
Climate plays an important role in many tropical countries, where disease vectors are often insects.
The Chinese factor in this Covid-19 epidemic
In the last few years we have seen many pathogenic microorganisms, many of which were first discovered in China.
China has a climate and geographical location quite similar to Western Europe and the United States, and therefore the mutated microorganisms that appear in China have great potential to cause negative harm to Western countries.
In addition, China is now strongly connected to the world.
In addition, China’s population is extremely large, equivalent to the populations of Europe, North America, Australia, Japan and South Korea combined.
China has super-big cities that even America’s New York City cannot compare to.
So what to do?
In general, the emergence of new pathogens is difficult to avoid.
The recent Covid-19 epidemic has also highlighted key tasks such as disease management and crisis management.
According to Trung Hieu
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