Eid: pig virus can spread to poultry

January 17, 2020 / bioun / -- A Study on the possibility of swine virus infecting birds shows that once introduced into a specific bird population, the virus can easily spread to healthy chickens and turkeys The team previously found in the lab that the virus can infect cells from a variety of species, including chickens and humans In this study, infected birds developed diarrhea symptoms two days after infection The rapid spread of the disease surprised scientists at Ohio State University "We're not even sure the virus will spread between birds," said Scott Kenney, assistant professor of the Ohio preventive food animal health research program at the Ohio Center for agricultural food research and development This is a major discovery " (image source: www Pixabay Com) although the susceptibility of swine virus cannot be tested from a human perspective, previous studies in cells have shown that the virus attaches itself to the same type of receptor in many different host species "If a human cell culture model is as predictive as a chicken, then it's certainly easy for humans to develop virus related diseases," he said The study was published in the online journal emerging infectious diseases The virus is a porcine delta coronavirus that was first detected in pigs in Asia in 2009 and caused an outbreak of swine diarrhea in the United States in 2014 It is part of the family of pathogens that cause respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases In this study, the researchers studied 14 day old chickens and turkeys In each group, they gave the virus directly to 10 birds from infected pigs Two days later, the researchers allowed uninfected chickens and turkeys to live in infected birds Most of the infected birds have diarrhea at different time points, and the sentinel animals have mild to moderate diarrhea after joining the infected flocks Based on the length and severity of the symptoms, studies have shown that turkeys are more likely to get the virus than chickens Although there is no screening method to detect the triangular coronavirus in humans, Kenny said humans may be at risk of infection He pointed out that if the meat is cooked properly, the transmission of the virus to humans through consumption can be avoided Sources of information: pig virus is easily transmitted among chickens and turkeys Original sources: Patricia A Boley, moyasar a alhamo, Geoffrey lossie, Kush Kumar Yadav, Marcia Vasquez Lee, Linda J Saif, Scott P Kenney Porcine deltacorona virus infection and transmission in University, United States 1 Emerging infectious diseases, 2020; 26 (2) DOI: 10.3201/eid2602.190346