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(Type A means the virus can infect animals, and its strains are always changing.) The first virus, CIV H3N8, showed up in Florida in 2004. The other, CIV H3N2, was discovered in Asia in 2006.
The virus has also been found in over a dozen wild animal species. Most animal species that can get the virus have not been proven to be able to spread it back to humans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that there is low risk that the virus would spread from animals to people but further studies are yet to be conducted ...
The virus has also been detected in wild animals. Cats, dogs, ferrets, fruit bats, gorillas, pangolins, hamsters, mink, sea otters, pumas, snow leopards, tigers, lions, hyenas, hippos, tree shrews and whitetail deer can be infected with and have tested positive at least once for the virus. [3]
Coronavirus has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide and infected more than 90,000.
It occurs primarily in dogs and horses, but can also affect humans. In dogs it affects the gastrointestinal system and lymph nodes, and rarely the skin. [24] Mucormycosis is a collection of fungal and mold diseases in dogs including pythiosis, zygomycosis, and lagenidiosis that affect the gastrointestinal tract and skin. [6]
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This causes a much more severe disease than either virus can separately. [7] However, fatal intestinal disease associated with canine coronavirus without the presence of canine parvovirus is still occasionally reported. [8] [9] This may be related to the high mutation rate of RNA positive stranded viruses, of which canine coronavirus is one. [2]
Three people in the UK have caught a disease usually confined to dogs. Brucella canis, a bacterial infection that causes pain, lameness and infertility in canines has now infected three human Britons.