Herbal medicines and coronavirus strains: what does previous experience teach us?
source:cyprus-mail.com 2020-04-10
[Research]
The Covid-19, or else known as 2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2 virus, belongs to the family of Coronavirus. As SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the β genus Coronavirus it is closely related to MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV – which have also been reported to cause severe symptoms of pneumonia in previous pandemics. The genetic structure of 2019-nCoV has been characterised and published.[i] [ii] The main proteins in this virus and those previously identified in SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV exhibit a high similarity between them.