{"id":122781,"date":"2021-05-21T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-find-new-human-coronavirus-that-originated-in-dogs"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:22:56","slug":"scientists-find-new-human-coronavirus-that-originated-in-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-find-new-human-coronavirus-that-originated-in-dogs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find new human coronavirus that originated in dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-new-human-coronavirus-that-originated-in-dogs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists said the findings indicated that the virus likely recently jumped from animals to humans, but stressed that additional studies are necessary.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have reportedly discovered a new kind of coronavirus that is believed to have originated in dogs \u2013 in what may be the eighth unique form of the bug known to cause disease in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in a study published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal said their findings from patients hospitalized with pneumonia in 2017\u20132018 underscored the public health threat of animal coronaviruses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/new-type-coronavirus-originating-dogs-found-study-2021-05-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They said they had tested nasal swab samples taken from 301 pneumonia patients at a hospital in the east Malaysian state of Sarawak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists said the findings indicated that the virus likely recently jumped from animals to humans, but stressed that additional studies are necessary. Scientists have reportedly discovered a new kind of coronavirus that is believed to have originated in dogs \u2013 in what may be the eighth unique form of the bug known to cause disease [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}