Coronaviruses
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Scientists have known of the human coronavirus since the 1960s. But only rarely has it garnered wider recognition over the past half a century.
The International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses has approved the naming of more than 40 coronaviruses. The vast majority of these infect animals. The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the number of identified coronaviruses that infect humans to seven.
Four of these are community acquired and have circulated through the human population continually for a very long time. The four community-acquired human coronaviruses typically cause mild cold-like symptoms in humans. Two of them, hCoV-OC43 and hCoV-229E, have been responsible for between 10% and 30% of all common colds since about the 1960s.
Three of these (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2) appear to have jumped to the human population more recently. Worryingly, these three result in a high mortality rate.
All coronaviruses are zoonotic. They start off in animals and can then, following mutation, recombination and adaptation, be passed on to humans[1].
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- ↑ The conversation A brief history of the coronavirus family – including one pandemic we might have missed Available from:https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-the-coronavirus-family-including-one-pandemic-we-might-have-missed-134556 (last accessed 6.12.2020)
