Research says a pig virus could threaten humans
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Last Update: 2021-03-10
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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new study, conducted in collaboration with the United States and the Netherlands, found that a pig virus can infect human and other animal cells in laboratory dishes, raising concerns that the virus threatens human health.
found in many countries in recent years has the potential to spread from species to species, according to a study published in
on July 14.
In 2014, the "pig Delta coronavirus" was detected in the feces of diarrhoeal piglets and sows in Ohio, and other countries have been detecting the virus in stool samples of diarrhoeal pigs, but no infections have been reported so far.
team at Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands found that the virus binds to the cellular subject "peptide enzyme N" in petri dishes in humans and animals such as cats or chickens.
Said lead researcher Scott Kenny of the Food animal health research program at Ohio State University, the spread of the virus across species depends on its ability to bind to cell receptors in animals or humans, which have previously been used when coronavirus infects hosts.
researchers say the new virus is worrying because similar viruses have led to outbreaks of deadly diseases such as atypical pneumonia and MIDDLES, but stress that the work does not prove that the virus can infect other species and cause disease.
next step is to look for antibodies in human blood samples that could be used as evidence that the virus has infected humans. (Source: Xinhua Zhouzhou)
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