A recent German study revealed that the new coronavirus "SARS Cove 2" could affect the heart as well, at a time when the World Health Organization announced that a team went to China to conduct an investigation into the origin of the Corona virus.
Dirk Westermann, the supervisor of the study conducted by the University Hospital "Hamburg-Gobndorf", said Friday in Hamburg that the new Corona virus, which causes Covid-19 disease, can infect and multiply the heart cells.
Westermann added that the virus is also able to alter the genetic activity of infected heart cells.
On the other hand, the study did not explain whether this has effects on the pathological pathology of heart patients.
A university hospital statement said the changing activity of genes in heart cells could have long-term consequences for patients' health.
The study emphasized the necessity of conducting a series of examinations on corona patients in the future.
The hearts of patients died in Corona
The university hospital conducted the study on 39 deceased heart patients, who were infected with corona virus, and they were 85 years old.
The researchers were able to monitor the virus in heart tissue in about two thirds of patients.
In a statement to the university hospital, the researchers found that in 16 cases, the virus was found in quantities that may have clinical effects.
The study is scheduled to be published in the Gamma Cardiologist.
Easy to move
Anthony Stephen Fauchi, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the American immunologist and member of the White House Corona Task Force, described the pandemic as "the worst nightmare" for health experts because of its easy transmission between people.
"The capacity of the infection shown by the virus is indeed striking," Fauchi said Thursday in an interview with the media.
A WHO spokesperson said on Friday that an WHO preparatory team had gone to China to conduct an investigation into the origin of the Coronavirus.
The virus is believed to have appeared at a wholesale market in central China's Wuhan late last year, after it jumped at barriers between organisms to move from the animal kingdom and infect humans.
Speaking at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Margaret Harris, spokeswoman said two experts from the organization in animal health and epidemiology would work with Chinese scientists to determine the scope and course of the investigation.
She added that this would include negotiations on issues including the formation of the full investigation team and the skills required.
"One of the biggest issues that everyone cares about, and of course that's why we send an animal health expert, is whether (the virus) passed from other creatures to humans, and what species did it transfer from," Harris said.
"We know that it is very similar to the virus in the bat, but has it passed through intermediate types? This is a question that we all need to answer."
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the virus may have been synthesized in a laboratory in Wuhan, but they have provided no evidence of this. China vehemently denies this, but US scientists and intelligence services have said that the virus originated in nature.