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
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A Chinese PhD Thesis Sheds Important New Light On The Origin of the COVID-19 Coronavirus
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One of the very earliest scientific papers from the COVID-19 pandemic era now has over 11,000 citations. Appearing in the scientific journal
Nature on February 3rd 2020, Zhou et al., 2020 reported the genome sequence of a novel coronavirus isolated from patients with atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Its senior author was leading coronavirus researcher Zheng-li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (the WIV). Along with what we now call SARS-CoV-2, her paper also reported the genome sequence of a closely related (96.2% identical) bat virus. The authors called this virus RaTG13. To this day RaTG13 is still the closest known viral genome by far to SARS-CoV-2.