Krishan Kewal, Kanchan Tanuj
Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India,.
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, India.
Acta Biomed. 2020 Sep 7;91(3):e2020023. doi: 10.23750/abm.v91i3.9872.
The pandemic caused by Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 shows its devastating effects all over the world. The American and the European countries are the worst-hit by this COVID-19 pandemic. However, most of the African countries excepting a few are less affected by this virus as far as the number of cases and deaths are concerned. The correspondence proposes that just like the abnormal haemoglobins HbS and HbC are found to provide immunity to the African populations against infectious diseases such as Plasmodium falciparum malaria The possibility of these abnormal haemoglobins offering certain protection against the Novel Coronavirus infection in these populations needs to be explored.
新型冠状病毒SARS-CoV-2引发的大流行在全球范围内显示出其毁灭性影响。美国和欧洲国家受此次COVID-19大流行的影响最为严重。然而，就病例数和死亡人数而言，除少数国家外，大多数非洲国家受这种病毒的影响较小。本信函提出，正如异常血红蛋白HbS和HbC被发现能使非洲人群对恶性疟原虫疟疾等传染病产生免疫力一样，需要探索这些异常血红蛋白在这些人群中对新型冠状病毒感染提供一定保护的可能性。
