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Discovery of a new virus in the blood
US neuroscientists have found in blood samples from the 1980s, a virus similar to those of hepatitis.
Giving blood may allow unusual discoveries. As they analyzed blood samples collected between 1974 and 1990, US scientists discovered a virus. Present in the collection belonging to 46 different people, this new virus would look like other officials of hepatitis C and G. According to researchers at Columbia Medical University (USA), this virus would be harmless. To establish this hypothesis, they have deepened their research by analyzing more recent samples of the same people. Most had more virus in the blood and those still held traces showed no pathology. Human hepegivirus virus 1 or HHpgV-1 It is thanks to new techniques that distinguish the DNA and virus RNA and compare to other already known that researchers fell on the virus, which they named "human hepegivirus 1" or "HHpgV1". Although this virus seems to them to be completely safe, the US team would like to continue their research on a larger number of people to attribute symptoms to this virus. They would also discover the age of the virus. According to them, this could provide a better understanding of other diseases and thus be able to better control the more dangerous.
