Scientists have warned that the new corona virus, is killing powerful immune cells, which are supposed to kill the virus, according to the Chinese newspaper "China China Morning Post".
This sudden discovery, reached by a team of researchers from Shanghai and New York, coincided with a note by doctors who dealt with patients with the "Corona" virus that this disease attacks the human immune system and causes damage similar to those discovered in patients with the HIV virus that causes For HIV / AIDS.
The team did this by obtaining a virus-infected cell, carrying a hole in its membrane and injecting toxic chemicals into the cell. Those chemicals killed the virus and the injected cell and completely destroyed the two.
Scientists were also surprised that the T cell, or what is known as the T-lymphocyte, which plays an important role in the immune system, became a prey to the Corona virus in their experiment.
The researchers conducted the same experiment with the SARS virus, another form of the Corona virus, and found that the SARS virus does not have the ability to infect lymphocytes.