Aquatic products may be contaminated with new coronavirus rather than infected. Earlier, the new salmon virus was detected by the imported salmon cutting board in the Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing, which caused many people to worry about the infection of aquatic products and whether they could eat seafood with pleasure.
In this regard, experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention once again said that fish will not be infected with the new coronavirus, and so far no infectious diseases transmitted to humans through fish have been found.
Experts said that the new coronavirus was detected in aquatic products such as salmon in the Beijing Xinfadi wholesale market because these aquatic products were contaminated by the new coronavirus rather than infected.
Experts said that aquatic products may be contaminated by the new coronavirus in every link of fishing, slaughtering, transportation, sales and processing, but the new coronavirus is unlikely to infect fish. Because virus infection requires a cell receptor for the host, fish cells do not have the same receptors as human cells.
Experts also say that fish or other seafood, it belongs to lower non-mammalian animals, although it also has ACE2 receptors, but it is completely different. Therefore, the virus and its receptor will not bind, so it will not be infected.