Potential Human Threat From New Pig Virus

Before it was found in pigs – including in the Ohio outbreak – it had only been found in various birds,” said study senior author Linda Saif, an investigator in Ohio State’s Food Animal Health Research Program at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), in Wooster. “We’re very concerned about emerging coronaviruses and worry about the harm they can do to animals and their potential to jump to humans,” said Saif, a distinguished university professor of veterinary preventive medicine. Emergence of the new virus is especially worrisome to veterinary and public-health experts because of its similarity to the life-threating viruses responsible for SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) outbreaks. https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/potential-human-threat-from-new-pig-virus-302870?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62916616&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81r0sJa3QPTHEz9kVW_QN_bKjLMkD-rcpCHHZL_sEjvqPkJF8KVMoPK_PATNiJfYDv2FaRKBdll69OhyHLYnwhDkD7uA&_hsmi=62916616