The myth # 1 on you catch coronavirus of food
With food manufacturers and farmers tested positive for coronaviruses, is it possible for food to be a crowd of the virus?
After so many meat workersprocessing plants andPackaged food installations (And now the farmers) have been tested positive for coronavirus, it may be confusing as to whether Covid-19 is transmitted via the food.
The answer? As much as we know, this is not the case. According toUnited Feres Products AssociationThere is no evidence that fresh produce, nor any food on this subject, can transmit Covid-19.
AsBen Chapman, a teacher at N.C. State teaches food security explained toNorth Carolina Health News,Coronavirus does not work in the same way as a pathogen of food origin such as E. coli made. Remember that the coronavirus targets the respiratory system and even if you have eaten something that had been contaminated by an infected person of an infected person, it would not affect your lungs.
"Most of the food we eat eventually becomes getting in our gut and eventually encounters a bunch of acid in our stomach," he said at the exit. "And this virus does not really remain infectious once it strikes the stomach."
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Recent research of the CDC Even demymatic the previous thought that coronavirus was highly transmissible through contaminated surfaces, namely stainless steel or plastic. Now, objects and surfaces are supposed to be low risk, with many experts claiming that the calendar must be just right.
In an interview withNPR,Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the center of infection and immunity at the Columbia University's Public Health School, said that the respiratory droplets of an infected person should have landed on the same exact place you touched, Then you should have touch your face in order. to contract it.
Although there are still many things, we do not know the virus, the information we know is that it is highly transmissible through a person in contact with anyone, so continue to take precautions accordingly . And make sure to readCoronavirus grocery shopping myths you have to stop believing For more misconceptions about the spread of the virus.
