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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.
Scientists discover new coronavirus that can transfer from dogs to humans
So far, eight people in Malaysia have been hospitalised after being infected with this new type of coronavirus. These include seven children, the youngest among them being just five-and-a-half months old
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This new type of coronavirus has been dubbed CCoV-HuPn-2018 by researchers at Duke University and Ohio State University
A group of scientists has come across a new type of coronavirus which originated in dogs and can also infect humans.
The pathogen has been around since 2018 and is the eighth coronavirus known to have migrated from animals to humans.
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. Gray asked Lishan Xiu, a Chinese PhD student-scholar, to make a pan-species coronavirus test, which he did by finding where the genetic sequences of the various members of this family aligned.
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