Published on: Saturday, May 22, 2021
By: AFP
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WASHINGTON: When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Professor Gregory Gray at Duke University’s Global Health Institute tasked a graduate student at his lab with developing a pan-species coronavirus test in order to help prevent the next catastrophe.
The idea was to deploy the tool, once its accuracy was validated, to look back at test samples from human patients in order to search for signs of coronaviruses that might have begun to cross over from animals.
Gray and his colleague’s findings, released Thursday in Clinical Infectious Diseases, showed a canine coronavirus was present in a group of mostly children patients admitted to hospital for pneumonia in Malaysia in 2017 and 2018.
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Descubren un nuevo coronavirus transmitido por perros en Malasia
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Scientists have discovered a new type of coronavirus which originated in dogs and can infect humans.
The pathogen, which has been around since 2018, is the eighth coronavirus known to have jumped from animals to humans.
It is not yet clear if the bug poses a serious threat like its cousin SARS-CoV-2, which is the name of the virus behind Covid.
But researchers who detected it claim they don t see any reason to expect another pandemic from this virus .
The virus hospitalised eight people in Malaysia, including seven children the youngest of whom was just five-and-a-half months old.
A newly-identified coronavirus that infected seven children in Malaysia in 2018 was spread by dogs, scientists in the US have discovered