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Which Virus Willrnbirds Give Us Next?

机译:哪种病毒将给我们下一步?

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It isn't just flu that we have birds to thank for over the millennia. It seems they also gave us one kind of common cold - and it made the jump relatively recently.rnIn 2001 Ron Fouchier and colleagues at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, discovered human metapneumovirus, one of many viruses that cause common colds. Although the resulting illness is usually mild, and most children have had it at least once by the age of 5, hMPV can cause lethal lung infections in small children.rnBy analysing similar viruses in birds, Fouchier's team has worked out that hMPV started as a bird virus and mutated to a form capable of infecting humans 200 years ago (Journal of General Virology, DOI: 10.1099/ vir.0.2008/006957-0).rnBecause hMPV made the jump so recently, and is highly successful at infecting humans, Fouchier says it offers an opportunity to study how animal viruses adapt to people.
机译:千年来,我们要感谢的不仅仅是禽流感。似乎他们也给我们带来了一种普通感冒-它相对较早地引起了人们的跳跃。2001年,荷兰鹿特丹伊拉斯姆斯医学中心的Ron Fouchier及其同事发现了人类偏肺病毒,这是引起普通感冒的许多病毒之一。尽管由此产生的疾病通常是轻度的,并且大多数孩子到5岁时至少已经感染过一次hMPV可以导致小孩子致命的肺部感染。通过对鸟类中类似病毒的分析,Fouchier的研究小组得出结论,hMPV始于禽病毒并突变为200年前能够感染人类的​​形式(Journal of General Virology,DOI:10.1099 / vir.0.2008 / 006957-0)。由于hMPV如此迅速地发展,并且在感染人类方面非常成功,Fouchier他说,这为研究动物病毒如何适应人类提供了机会。

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    《New scientist》 |2008年第2684期|18|共1页
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