What is the mysterious "X disease" in Africa?

On June 5438+February, 2020, in addition to COVID-19 virus, which caused widespread spread around the world, a female patient developed symptoms of hemorrhagic fever such as vomiting, diarrhea and high fever in a small town in Africa. At first, the medical staff thought that the patient was infected with Ebola virus, and they strictly isolated and treated him. However, in the patient's multiple virus tests, no Ebola virus antigen positive test results were found. At present, the cause of the patient's illness is still unclear, so it is temporarily named X disease.

Patients with X disease will have symptoms similar to those infected with Ebola virus, such as high fever, diarrhea, tissue bleeding and other symptoms. At the same time, the mortality rate of the disease is also very high, and the mortality rate of patients is between 50% and 90%. At present, the biggest problem is that medical workers don't know the pathogen of X disease, they can't locate the cause of patients, they can't take targeted treatment measures, and the spread and prevention of pathogens can't be carried out. These are the places where X disease is more worrying.

Although medical workers are still screening the cause of X disease, I believe that with the support of molecular medical technology, the investigation of pathogenic factors will soon come to the bottom. Countries in Africa are generally in economically backward areas, and the level of medical security in the country and society is far from enough. However, due to various traditional habits, there is no strict dividing line between human living environment and wild natural environment. Many towns are even in the wild natural environment, and the communication between people and wild animals is very close, which provides very favorable conditions for some bacteria and viruses to spread from animals to humans.

After investigation, the SARS virus that ravaged China ten years ago was transmitted to humans by wild civets. COVID-19, which broke out in China in early 2020, can also find samples with very similar gene sequences in wild bats. This shows that bacteria and viruses existing in wild animals may be very fatal to human beings. If conditions permit, it is necessary to protect the living environment of wild animals and keep a certain distance from them. Perhaps a bacterium and virus that can live in peace with wild animals will become a very deadly pathogen in human society.