May 20, 2021
An electron microscope image of CCov-HuPn-2018, the new canine coronavirus that could infect humans found in a pneumonia patient in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 2018.
Molecular & Cellular Imaging Centre of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Centre, Ohio State University
A new type of coronavirus that could infect humans was confirmed in at least one pneumonia patient hospitalised in 2018 in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, a medical journal reports.
The virus was the first canine coronavirus to have been isolated in a human patient, according to a paper by an international team of scientists – including those from the US, Malaysia and China – published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on Thursday (May 20).