Rota Virus belongs to a viral family called "Rotaviridae". There are nine types of it, which is a cyclic or circular virus.

According to the World Health Organization, this virus kills between 215 and 250,000 people annually, due to the drought caused by diarrhea that occurs as a result of infection, especially among children who have not received the vaccine against it, which can provide protection for children up to 90 %.

In his article on the Arab Scientific Society website, Dr. Reda Mohamed Taha wrote that rotavirus is highly contagious, as it spreads easily between children from three months to 35 months, especially in care homes, nurseries and schools, where children stay a long time in these places.

The virus is transmitted through faecal-contaminated hands; that is, they are not washed well, with one gram of fecal matter in the infected person containing more than ten trillion viral viral particles, while between 10 and 100 molecules of the Rota virus are sufficient to cause infection.

Contaminated food
The virus is also transmitted through contaminated food, especially meals provided on trips and others, as well as through the use of unclean public baths and swimming pools. The virus may also be transmitted from children to infect adults in endemic areas, especially in poor countries that lack clean drinking water.

Dr. Taha - an assistant professor of microbiology at the Faculty of Science at Fayoum University - said that the virus is able to stay alive for long hours and transmit infection through contaminated hands, especially children who keep their fingers in their mouths constantly, as the virus remains on the surfaces of things for weeks, maintaining its ability to transmit Infection, if those contaminated surfaces, utensils, or tools have not been thoroughly cleaned with highly effective disinfectants.

The virus causes the encoder to produce a type of toxin inside the intestine (Enterotoxin), consisting of glycoprotein, and it is called abbreviated "NSP4". .

In addition to severe watery diarrhea, symptoms of infection with the virus include vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain. The virus also causes stomach and intestine infections (Gastroenteritis), and infection may lead to death if the patient does not undergo proper treatment.

studies
Symptoms may last up to about eight days, which requires rapid treatment, first by injecting solutions to prevent the risk of dehydration, as prescribed by the specialist.

There are many published studies on the rotavirus, the way it works, its methods of treatment, and the symptoms it causes, especially diarrhea.

A study - conducted by researchers from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University in Atlanta, in the United States, and published in the journal "The Cell" in October 2019 - describes the mechanism by which the person is resistant to the virus, and its results revealed a type of segmented filamentous bacteria naturally present Within the person’s microbiome in the intestine, it is called the “SFB”, which is the determining factor for the ability of the infected person to resist and get rid of the virus, as these bacteria work to reduce the damage caused by Rota virus by destroying cells, by helping them constantly change the squamous layer For the intestine that it is located The virus.

The research team considers this matter an important step to explain the mechanism by which these bacteria are able to flush the virus with excreta, and scientists are seeking to simulate this mechanism to find effective treatment to get rid of this virus.