Because in Lombardy and Emilia Romagna ammonia favors the virus

Conversation of Ruggero Po with Ettore Guerriero, researcher of the Cnr-Iia (Air Pollution Institute) on the potential role of ammonia in the spread of Coronavirus

Conversation of Ruggero Po with Ettore Guerriero, researcher of the Cnr-Iia (Air Pollution Institute) on the potential role of ammonia in the spread of Coronavirus:

SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION

Ammonia is a common factor linking air in bat caves and air pollution near farm fields treated with farm sewage and slaughterhouses, where major clusters of COVID-19 around the world have recently been reported. This commonality has a further connection with the known behavior of some viruses of the coronavirus family, such as the murine hepatitis virus, whose spike glycoprotein (S) can be triggered in a membrane-binding conformation at pH 8.0. Within the airway of transmission of the virus, with particular relevance for crowded and closed environments, these observations have suggested a hypothesis that may represent a cause that helps to interpret the geographic variability of the spread of the virus and the dizzying increase in cases of COVID-19 in slaughterhouses all over the world. View full text

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/perche-in-lombardia-ed-emilia-ammoniaca-favorisce-il-virus/ on Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:40:05 +0000.