Mystery or Natural Phenomenon: According to the data, children are rarely infected with the virus. • The study found that even in the 2003 sera virus there were no children.

The corne virus continues to erupt and charge more victims, but one of the interesting phenomena about the virus that drives the world crazy is the fact that children are rarely infected with the deadly virus. The SARS virus, the close relative of the Corona, which erupted in China in 2003, has also rarely infected children, and if so they were only slightly injured.

Researchers who examined the SARS virus found that all the dead in the disease were adults, no children at all who died of the horrible disease, of which 10% died of the infection. In addition, only one case of a child was infected with the virus, and recovered fairly quickly.

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Regarding Corona, the situation is quite more complex, due to the fact that the virus has only burst in the last two months, and science does not have enough information about it. However, doctors in China suggest that children and adolescents under the age of 15 are less likely to contract the disease.

So what's the reason?

Professor Amos Pent, a molecular virology specialist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Hebrew University School of Medicine, explains that the reason stems from differences in the immune system between children and adults.

“There is a gap between the immune system of children and adolescents and adults. Weakest. "

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Pent adds: "So it's not surprising that in Sars and Corona, two viruses that cause respiratory disease have high survival rates in children and adolescents whose bodies are very prepared against such conditions. Older adults are therefore more vulnerable and more likely to die."

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In addition, Prof. Fent also notes an environmental cause that could explain the gap between adults and children. "Adults need to work, support, move around, while children are confined to the home because of the raging virus. Therefore, practical children are less exposed directly to the virus and may be exposed to it at second level."

The expert also notes that "However, the Corona should be reluctant. It is still early, and the incomplete data should be made with unequivocal determination." He also notes that "although the Corona and SARS are from the same family, they are not similar but genetically distant cousins. The SARS came from a terrestrial animal and the corona is batting. In any case, I would still wait with the conclusions," he says.