US Center for Disease Control warns of deadly “Chapar” virus

The British newspaper “Daily Mail” revealed that a deadly Ebola-like virus can spread among people, as the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the rare infection had passed from one patient to 4 others in Bolivia, in South America, last year, and the “Chapar” virus was discovered. For the first time in humans, in 2003, when a person in Bolivia contracted the deadly Ebola-like virus from a rodent and died.

Chapare, the newspaper said, causes eye pain, stomach pain, bleeding gums, high fever, rashes and sometimes internal bleeding, just like Ebola, Bolivian scientists have baffled.

The newspaper added that infection with the Chapar virus causes high fever, abdominal pain, bleeding in the gums, eye pain and a rash, with the further confirmed cases of Chapar virus, there were only 6 known cases so far. After the initial case nearly two decades ago, the virus appeared to be gone, but last year a hospital near La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, contacted investigators from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and they had a strange series of diseases and suspected dengue fever, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes in the tropics.

Like Ebola, it can cause abdominal pain, nausea, pain behind the eyes, joint and muscle pain and, if it develops in a more severe form, causes life-threatening internal bleeding.

And one case was reported in the Bolivian province where the disease was named in 2003 after it was transmitted from animals, apparently through rodent bites or scratches to humans, but now the CDC has confirmed that it has appeared again in 2019. and it spread from a patient. From one to four others, 3 of the total 5 cases proved fatal.

CDC officials said they have noted that hemorrhagic fevers such as Chapare, Ebola, are rarely spread widely because they have immediate and obvious symptoms and often, unfortunately, become fatal before they have a chance to spread.

Most of the people who died in the 2019 outbreak were not from casual, untraceable contact, but from health workers who had to interact with the infected person while they were in their care, the newspaper said.

But when Bolivian scientists tested samples from the 5 patients, it was found that they were completely negative for dengue, as well as a whole host of other infections in the area including haemorrhagic fever and yellow fever.

The newspaper pointed out that the CDC has taken each of the five samples on parts of the genetic material of the Chapar virus, through their investigations, CDC scientists suspect that the resident doctor who died in the outbreak may have transferred the virus to a paramedic. ambulance who updated him via CPR is on its way to the hospital, allowing the virus to travel through body fluids.

Rodent droppings found near the first deceased patient’s home also contained the virus, indicating the path the virus passed from animals to humans.

One surviving patient still had detectable levels of Chapare in his sperm, 168 days after taking it.

The center said the results are frightening for two reasons: the virus can spread from one person to another, the method of transmission that allowed the Corona virus to turn into a pandemic and could continue, at least in small quantities for a long time. , 4 out of 6 people infected with Shabar have died so far.

While this makes the virus more deadly than coronavirus, it also means that the virus has a lower chance of spreading, it is also a highly symptomatic disease and symptoms appear almost immediately after infection, this is the opposite of the Corona virus, as it is estimates that 40% of cases have no symptoms.