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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Coronavirus, named due to the "crown" like appearance of its surface projections, was first isolated from chickens in 1937. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), causing COVID-19, is a [[virus]] identified as the cause of an outbreak of [[respiratory illness]] first detected in Wuhan, China. | |||
==Historical Perspective== | ==Historical Perspective== | ||
* Coronavirus, named due to the "crown" like appearance of its surface projections, was first isolated from chickens in 1937. | * Coronavirus, named due to the "crown" like appearance of its surface projections, was first isolated from chickens in 1937. | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Coronavirus, named due to the "crown" like appearance of its surface projections, was first isolated from chickens in 1937. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), causing COVID-19, is a virus identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
Historical Perspective
- Coronavirus, named due to the "crown" like appearance of its surface projections, was first isolated from chickens in 1937.
- In 1965, Tyrrell and Bynoe used cultures of human ciliated embryonal trachea to propagate the first human coronavirus (HCoV) in vitro.
- There are now approximately 15 species in this family, which infect not only humans but cattle, pigs, rodents, cats, dogs and birds (some are serious veterinary pathogens, especially chickens).[1]
- 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), causing COVID-19, is a virus identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.[2]
- Initially, the patients were believed to have contracted the virus from seafood/animal markets which suggested animal-to-human spread.
- The growing number of patients however, suggest that human-to-human transmission is actively occurring.
- In the United States, confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
References
- ↑ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/index.html. Missing or empty
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