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Researchers have discovered a new coronavirus, in a child with pneumonia in Malaysia in 2018, that appears to have jumped from dog to human. If confirmed as a pathogen, the novel canine-like coronavirus could represent the eighth unique coronavirus known to cause disease in humans. “How common this virus is, and whether it can be transmitted efficiently from dogs to humans or between humans, nobody knows,” says Gregory Gray, a professor of medicine, global health, and environmental health at the Duke University and lead author of the paper in “What’s more important is that these coro...

Another coronavirus crossed over from animals to humans in Borneo longhouses like these. Fortunately, none of those infected died of it, and the virus probably does not transmit easily from person to person, but the warning signs are clear. Image Credit: Attila JANDI/Shutterstock.com From the beginning of the pandemic virologists have warned COVID-19 will not be the last coronavirus to trouble humanity. Now it seems likely one was the cause of an unexplained outbreak 3 years ago. The probable source of the disease should give pause to all those who advocated killing bats to keep the next plag...

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Scientists swabbed patients in Malaysia with a test that detects a range of coronaviruses and found something unusual -- a significant share of them were infected with a dog virus.

A newly identified coronavirus may not pose a serious threat, but the finding highlights the need to monitor animal viruses more proactively, scientists say.