Is the COVID-19 virus really an opportunist or part of an infection that includes a cofactor virus?
Here is the reason that people with COVID-19 should be tested for African Swine Fever virus.
African Swine Fever has been described as "The acquired immunodeficiency disease of domestic pigs." (See below.)
Pigs all over China have it. 1.2 million pigs have it. Every organ system is affected, including the lungs.
In human AIDS, coronaviruses are opportunistic infections. Check this out:
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So, if you have an ASFV epidemic all over China, and it is basically similar to AIDS, are those pigs susceptible to coronaviruses and is SARSCov-2 one of them?
Is the COVID-19 virus just a critical cofactor or biomarker for an underlying ASFV infection?
From an ASFV textbook:
African swine fever (ASF) is caused by a virus that is classified as a member of the Iridovirinae family. The disease in the warthog, the natural host, in Africa was described in 1921 by R. E. Montgomery. The reservoir of the virus is in ticks. The introduction of domestic pigs into territory occupied by warthogs infected with ASF in the 1960's has endangered the pig industry around the world. The domestic pig is highly sensitive to ASF and develops a devastating disease that kills the pig without giving the immune system a chance to defend the animal against the virus infection. The ability of ASF virus to infect and destroy cells of the reticuloendothelial system leaves a defenseless host that succumbs to an infection which may be described as an acquired immune deficiency disease of domestic pigs. Introduction of the virus into Iberia in the 1960's led to a series of ASF epidemics in Spain and Portugal . . and later in France, that caused heavy economic losses. Between 1976 and 1960, ASF virus made its appearance in Malta and Sardinia . . as well as in Brazil, The Dominican Republic . . Haiti, and later in Cuba. In 1985-6 . . ASF appeared in Belgium and The Netherlands.
