According a report published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) last week, researchers were able to confirm COVID-19 patients had live virus in stool specimens suggesting that the vicious virus called 2019-nCoV can be transmitted through fecal matter.<\/p>\n
The spread through only respiratory droplets and contact transmission werent able to fully account for all cases of the deadly COVID-19 according to the report, leading to searchers examining other ways the virus spreads.<\/p>\n
This virus has many routes of transmission, which can partially explain its strong transmission and fast transmission speed, reads the report.<\/p>\n
A different study was able to reproduce these findings independently, finding the virus in both blood and anal swabs of COVID-19 patients, as LiveScience reports.<\/p>\n
As for what you can do to minimize risk, the advice remains largely the same, as issued by the World Health Organization: wash your hands frequently, avoid unprotected contact with farm animals, and keep a distance from those who are showing symptoms.<\/p>\n
China CDC additionally recommends drinking boiled water, avoiding raw food consumption, and disinfecting of surfaces of objects in households, toilets, public places, and transportation vehicles, among other suggestions.<\/p>\n
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