Evolution is a viral disease, according to scientists from Stanford University. After many years of research, scientists have found that only 30% of mutated proteins share a human and a chimpanzee, and these mutations of the human protein appeared precisely due to viruses. According to scientists, various viral epidemics forced the body of the first people to mutate in order to survive, but how do proteins affect the resistance to viruses? If protein is involved in this process, then why not all people are able to overcome the disease?
French scientists claim that viruses appeared on the planet more than 300 million years ago. For centuries, humanity has been struggling with diseases, but as it turned out, it was a mortal threat that caused our evolution. Moreover, all living things develop thanks to their fight against numerous diseases.
Fever, pain, digestive problems and bleeding are symptoms of the famous Ebola. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the latest outbreak of the virus has killed more than 11,000 people. However, scientists believe that this was only the beginning and in the future this virus will have more victims.
Ebola patient.
Ebola, viruses of immunodeficiency, smallpox, rabies, flu: they are all deadly, but according to biologists, a person will learn how to cope with them, especially since viruses have no purpose to kill their carrier, because a person is, in fact, their home and place of reproduction (of his kind of perfect incubator).
According to doctors, now the relationship of mankind with viruses is similar to an "arms race", each evolves in its own way. We invent new drugs and vaccines, and viruses mutate to adapt to them. However, today, in this competition, the "palm", according to researchers, is kept by diseases.
Last summer, South Korea was on the brink of a massive avian flu epidemic. In the fight against the virus in Seoul, the authorities even issued a decree: all employees of poultry farms were forbidden to live in their homes until the total disinfection was over, and violators were threatened with fines of up to $ 9,000 or imprisonment for up to 1 year in prison.
It would seem that such harsh measures are unnecessary, because this virus can only be obtained from direct contact with a bird and it is not transmitted from person to person. However, scientists are confident that the disease can mutate at any time and then its spread will not be stopped.
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In the zone of mortal risk there may be 150 million people and this is a real catastrophe (from the point of view of a normal person), but from the point of view of science, and even on a planetary scale, this is another round in evolution.