Corona virus from the body?
Researchers said that the virus that causes the common cold can play an effective role in expelling the Corona virus from the cells of the body.
Some viruses compete with one another to leave only one that infects the host host.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow say that the rhinovirus that causes the common cold appears to be able to defeat the Corona virus.
The benefits of this may seem short-lived, but the cold virus in return is widespread, making it able to help fight Covid.
Imagine that the cells in the nose, trachea and lungs are as if they were a row of houses that as soon as a virus enters it, the door closes without it and alone accounts for the new housing, or leaves the door open to other competitors of viruses.
Influenza is one of the most selfish viruses, and it is usually unique to the infection. Unlike other viruses, such as those belonging to the adenovirus family, which appear to be more open to other viruses and more able to coexist with them.
Much speculation has been raised about the ability of the Corona virus to coexist with other viruses.
But a year of social distancing contributed to limiting the spread of viruses and thus made it difficult to discover the result of such an interaction between Corona and other viruses, which represents a challenge for researchers.
And a team of researchers at the University of Glasgow resorted to using tissue similar to the lining of the airway so that these contain the same types of cells, and they injected them with the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes corona, and the rhinovirus that causes the common cold, which is most common in humans.
The researchers found that the virus that causes colds was the one that managed to survive when it was injected with its counterpart that causes corona at the same time.
And when the tissue was injected with the virus that causes colds 24 hours ago, the virus that causes corona was not able to appear when injected.
When the opposite happened (i.e., the tissue was injected with the Coronavirus 24 hours before), the cold virus was able to appear, expel the Corona virus, and exclude cells alone.
The researcher, Pablo Murcia, told the BBC: "The outbreak of the common cold virus is massive and is able to stop the spread of the Corona virus."
Similar results have been seen before. The massive outbreak of the common cold in 2009 played a role in delaying the outbreak of swine flu epidemics in parts of Europe at the time.
Numerous experiments confirmed the ability of the virus that causes colds to stimulate immunity within the cells that it infects, thus closing the door in the face of the virus that causes Corona and leaving it unable to reproduce itself.
However, the Corona virus may find its way to infection again with the disappearance of the cold, which in turn stimulates the immunity inside the cells.
Here, the researcher Murcia believes that "vaccination with vaccines, as well as health measures, in addition to competition between viruses - are factors capable of reducing the rate of spread of the Corona virus, but the greatest impact is for immunization with vaccines."
Lawrence Yang, a researcher at the University of Warwick, believes that the viruses that cause colds in humans were "widespread".
Yang says that this study indicates that: "The outbreak of cold viruses is able to limit the intensity of the spread of the Corona virus, especially in the autumn and winter seasons and the seasons for the spread of cold viruses."
However, it is not possible to say for sure what will end the battle of viruses in the coming winter seasons.
It is likely that the Corona virus will still exist, and the waves of infections that have difficulty emerging during the epidemic may find an opportunity to re-emerge with weakening of the acquired immunity during the epidemic.
In light of this, Susan Hopkins of Public Health England warns of a "difficult winter". "We might see an increase in the incidence of colds and respiratory illnesses," Hopkins says.
