Detection of viruses causing diarrhea in pigs is likely to infect humans

According to research published in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences on May 14, the virus named Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was recently discovered in pigs capable of "attacking" human cells and many other experimental animals.

This information raises concerns about the risk of disease outbreaks that threaten the health of humans and animals.

Scott Kenney, lead researcher at Ohio State University, stressed that the risk of spreading the virus from one species to another largely depends on the ability of the virus to reach human receptors or movements . Once they reach these receptors, the virus can easily penetrate the cell and infect the host.

Viruses can easily penetrate cells and spread disease to hosts.

Through the concentration of specific cell receptor analysis of the aminopeptidase N intestinal enzyme in the laboratory, the team found PDCoV can attack these receptors in the respiratory and digestive systems of not only pigs, cats and chickens that even people.

The research team at Ohio State University and the Dutch University of Utrecht have only identified the potential of spreading PDCoV among animals and volunteers participating in a cell transplant experiment containing PDCoV. The group is continuing to investigate the risk of transmitting PDCoV among species, in order to determine whether this strain of virus replicates in cells that they attack and transmit from pigs to chickens, even to humans. or not.

The latest finding of the PDCoV research group is making animal health and veterinary experts extremely concerned, because the virus has similar characteristics to virus strains that threaten human and animal lives. outbreaks and).

Porcine deltacoronavirus was first found in 2012 on pigs in China, but did not record outbreaks. In 2014, the virus first appeared in the United States in an outbreak of diarrhea in pigs in Ohio state.

Up to now, many more countries have discovered this strain. Young pigs infected with Porcine deltacoronavirus have symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. However, the world has not recorded any cases in people infected with this virus.