Bulgarian Virologist: The End of the Pandemic is Coming

Assoc. Prof. Velislava Terzieva, Head of the Laboratory of Virology at the University Hospital "Lozenets" and researcher at the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction - "Acad. Kiril Bratanov" - BAS was a guest on the Bulgarian National Radio.

"About two years is the duration of the last modern pandemics. Moreover, this pandemic has already crossed the plateau and is starting to go down - that is, it goes to its natural end. So, this pandemic is in time frames as a duration, given the last about 100. Excluding the plague, in which about 50 percent of Europe's population has been lost."

"This pandemic has several distinctive features: rapid spread throughout the world and the fact that there was a very unusual move from an immunological and clinical point of view," said for BNR Assoc. Prof. Velislava Terzieva:

"It's that some people got seriously ill, even fatal, and others didn't even realize they were sick.

Mutations of the virus are something natural - it is embedded in their biology and it is in order for the virus to survive. Also to cope and survive even with treatment or vaccines.

In addition, nowadays, with the rapid development of science in medicine, within a few weeks, we scientists can characterize the virus and detect new mutations, which is why so many have been identified. And considering how fast the information is spreading today, this has led to much better public awareness of what is happening in scientific laboratories," said Assoc. Prof. Terzieva.

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