As a journal Associate Editor and reviewer, I see lots of manuscripts about “new” viruses. I tend not to get too excited about most of them, because “new” is usually actually just “new to us” (or newly identified), because as technology improves, we are able to identify lots of viruses that we’ve been living with
New (Probably) Canine-Origin Human Coronavirus?
I seriously considered this as my email auto-reply today:
- Thanks for your email. Yes, I’m aware of that new canine/human coronavirus paper that was released today. I’m in a symposium all day and have only skimmed the paper. I’ll read it later tonight and presumably blog about it.
- PS: This isn’t the next COVID-19. Relax.
Equine coronarvirus…a new problem?
Two presentations at the International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases yesterday discussed equine coronavirus and whether it might be a new or previously unrecognized cause of disease in adult horses. This follows a presentation the day before that mentioned coronavirus diarrhea in racing draft horses in Japan – a rather unique group, pictured at right.