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December 21, 2020 at 6:30 am A wild mink in Utah is the first wild animal found to be infected with the new coronavirus. A December 13 report by researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggests the animal picked up its infection from farmed mink. The wild animal hosted a version of the virus that appears identical to what was seen in nearby farmed mink. The researchers had been conducting a survey of wildlife. They were looking for any animals infected with the new coronavirus. The focus was on areas near mink farms. Those farms had reported outbreaks of the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, from August 24 to October 30. Only the one wild animal tested positive. ....
Abstract Central nervous system (CNS) infection is a serious neurologic condition, although the etiology remains unknown in >50% of patients. We used metagenomic next-generation sequencing to detect viruses in 204 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with acute CNS infection who were enrolled from Vietnam hospitals during 2012–2016. We detected 8 viral species in 107/204 (52.4%) of CSF samples. After virus-specific PCR confirmation, the detection rate was lowered to 30/204 (14.7%). Enteroviruses were the most common viruses detected (n = 23), followed by hepatitis B virus (3), HIV (2), molluscum contagiosum virus (1), and gemycircularvirus (1). Analysis of enterovirus sequences revealed the predominance of echovirus 30 (9). Phylogenetically, the echovirus 30 strains belonged to genogroup V and VIIb. Our results expanded knowledge about the clinical burden of enterovirus in Vietnam and underscore the challenges of identifying a plausible viral pathogen in CSF of pa ....