Yersinia pestis - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

 Nel febbraio 2003, il nuovo Coronavirus mortale e precedentemente sconosciuto che causa una grave sindrome respiratoria acuta (SARS-Cov) è stato portata all'attenzione dell'organizzazione mondiale della sanità (OMS) dal Dr. Carlo Urbani e dai suoi colleghi. 

Il virus della SARS è nato nella provincia di Guangdong nel sud della Cina nel novembre 2002, dove inizialmente è stato pensato per causare polmonite atipiche.  Tuttavia, in breve tempo il virus si è diffuso a Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada, Stati Uniti, Taiwan e diversi paesi europei. Gli sforzi concertati della comunità scientifica hanno portato a un'identificazione molto rapida di un nuovo Coronavirus come agente eziologico di SARS e il sequenziamento del genoma completo del virus.

 Fonte: "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Development of Diagnostics and Antivirals"
L'equipe medica e scientifica:  MORTEN DRÆBY SØRENSEN, 1 BRIAN SØRENSEN, 1 REGINA GONZALEZ‐DOSAL, 1 CONNIE JENNING MELCHJORSEN, 1 JENS WEIBEL, 1 JING WANG, 2 CHEN WIE JUN, 2 YANG HUANMING, 2 and PETER KRISTENSEN 1
 pubblicato il 10.05.2006 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167626/ 

"By the fourteenth century, however, the rapid population increase and economic boom came to a sudden halt. Already weakened by famine and malnutrition brought about by crop failures in the early 1300s, and often living in cramped conditions with poor sanitation and hygiene, Europeans succumbed in record numbers to the plague that hit dhe continent in 1348. Coming form Mongolia via the Middle East the virus Yersinia pestis which is transmitted by fleas  living on the blood of infected rats arrived in the bustling port cities of the Mediterranean first and from there spread quickly along the trade routes killing between a third to half of the population of Europe. .."

Source:  "Food in Medieval Times" - by Melitta Weiss Adamson 

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