Identified in same region, from same bats, as
SARS coronavirus
Date: April
4, 2018
Source:
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
A newly identified coronavirus that killed
nearly 25,000 piglets in 2016-17 in China emerged from horseshoe bats near the
origin of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which
emerged in 2002 in the same bat species. The new virus is named swine acute
diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV). It does not appear to infect people,
unlike SARS-CoV which infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774. No
SARS-CoV cases have been identified since 2004. The study investigators
identified SADS-CoV on four pig farms in China's Guangdong Province. The work
was a collaboration among scientists from EcoHealth Alliance, Duke-NUS Medical
School, Wuhan Institute of Virology and other organizations, and was funded by
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National
Institutes of Health. The research is published in the journal Nature.
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