One more article about an adenovirus caught my eye; although this is "old" news, the article I saw was dated this month.
"While other viruses can infect more than one species, adenoviruses tend to be species-specific, which makes this somewhat unusual,"
and
"A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have 'jumped' from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report...
Still, "there is very strong evidence to suggest a cross-species transmission event happened," said lead investigator Dr. Charles Chiu, an assistant professor of laboratory medicine and medicine/infectious diseases at the University of California San Francisco. "
....
The scientist appears to have caught the virus while investigating an outbreak of illness among a colony of Titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis, Chiu said.
Among the monkeys, the virus was highly contagious and deadly: Of 55 monkeys housed at the center, 23 (about 40 percent) became seriously ill with upper respiratory symptoms that progressed to pneumonia and an inflammation of the liver. Nineteen monkeys, or about 83 percent of those infected, died."
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...ey_to_Scientist__Causing_Serious_Illness.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...ans__Researchers_Find.html?ref=more-like-this
"While other viruses can infect more than one species, adenoviruses tend to be species-specific, which makes this somewhat unusual,"
and
"A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have 'jumped' from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report...
Still, "there is very strong evidence to suggest a cross-species transmission event happened," said lead investigator Dr. Charles Chiu, an assistant professor of laboratory medicine and medicine/infectious diseases at the University of California San Francisco. "
....
The scientist appears to have caught the virus while investigating an outbreak of illness among a colony of Titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis, Chiu said.
Among the monkeys, the virus was highly contagious and deadly: Of 55 monkeys housed at the center, 23 (about 40 percent) became seriously ill with upper respiratory symptoms that progressed to pneumonia and an inflammation of the liver. Nineteen monkeys, or about 83 percent of those infected, died."
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...ey_to_Scientist__Causing_Serious_Illness.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...ans__Researchers_Find.html?ref=more-like-this
