Posted on 05/10/2020 11:23:55 AM PDT by RummyChick
Scientists have claimed the coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes after finding they contain a protein used by the infection to bind to cells.
The coronavirus - scientifically called SARS-CoV-2 - latches onto ACE-2 receptors, known as the 'gateway' into cells inside body.
These receptors are found in the respiratory tract and the lungs, which is where the virus first infiltrates cells, as well as other organs.
A team led by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have now found the eyes produce ACE-2, making them a target for the virus.
It means if droplets from an infected person's sneeze or cough were to land on the surface of the eye, the virus could begin infiltrating cells there.
It may explain why some patients have suffered conjunctivitis - an inflammation of the eye which causes it to become red and infected.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Btw, someone here got conjunctivitis and knocked it out with Vitamin C. Dont remember what else he took
Saw this reported in February
another view
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074963v1.full.pdf
Lack of association between genetic variants at ACE2 and TMPRSS2
genes involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection and human quantitative
phenotypes
Great
We’re gonna die
This was known and reported way back when the CCP virus aka Kung Flu was introduced into the US.
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420302294
There is no discussion of this virus without something political behind it.
If you think what you read has useful information, you don’t understand the current state of things.
It’s all about causing fear for manipulation and control.
Not to mention the people who spit while talking. Ew.
That’s why we need y’all to wear blindfolds.
Please cooperate.
yep we knew this back months ago which is why I laugh all the time at the idiots walking about with masks but their eyes are exposed, and their hands are touching everywhere.
Coronavirus can be spread through the eyes.
Holy crap! Isolate Adam Schiff immediately!!!
SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes
The results confirmed the expression of ACE2 in multiple tissues shown in previous studies10,11 with added information on tissues not previously investigated, including nasal epithelium and cornea and its co-expression with TMPRSS2. We clearly detected nasal ACE2 mRNA expression, for which protein confirmation is needed to resolve conflicting results in literature8,12. Our findings may have important implications for understanding viral transmissibility, considering that the primary viral transmission is through infectious droplets. Moreover, as SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus, its release does not require cell lysis. Thus, the virus might exploit existing secretory pathways in nasal goblet cells sustained at a presymptomatic stage. These discoveries could have translational implications. For example, given that nasal carriage is likely to be a key feature of transmission, drugs/vaccines administered intranasally could be highly effective in limiting spread.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0868-6
Old news. All gonna die.
Great, now our Governess Nit-Whitmer will order us all to wear laboratory goggles in public.
Quick, everybody buy ski goggles before they’re sold out!
LOL
Great. All safety goggles, scuba masks and welder’s face protection will disappear in three days.
The solution of course will be all votes in November must be by mail. Once the demonkraps take over, this will end as we will be preparing for staying at home for the war against climate change (whatever that is).
Conclusion: The observation of high-level ACE2 and TMPRSS2 expression in conjunctiva among the 6 eye tissues examined suggests that conjunctiva serves as an infection target tissue of 2019-nCoV. (Chin J Ophthalmol, 2020, 56:).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32316719
So we can walk around blindfolded and with masks covering nose and mouth.
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