{"id":3385,"date":"2023-04-25T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:57:45","slug":"dogs-could-be-patient-zero-for-virus-with-potential-to-infect-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/25\/dogs-could-be-patient-zero-for-virus-with-potential-to-infect-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Could Be “Patient Zero” For Virus With Potential To Infect Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newsweek<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bird flu virus that has\u00a0spread to canines<\/a>\u00a0may hop hosts in the future, potentially infecting humans through their pet dogs, according to scientists at China Agricultural University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic gained steam in 2020, more Americans have turned their eyes to the pathology and the origin of viruses<\/a>, as well as methods to fight infection through vaccines and prevention. Although no dog-to-human infection of the H3N2 avian flu have been detected, the virus is evolving to exhibit new properties that show its potential of infecting other mammals in the future<\/a>, such as humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists published their study in the\u00a0science journal\u00a0<\/a>eLife on April 11. The findings revealed that the virus infecting dogs is descended from H3N2, a type of avian flu. The virus first began affecting dogs nearly 20 years ago in China. It spread to American dogs by 2015. The virus causes mild respiratory symptoms in dogs, such as sneezing, coughing and lethargy. The mortality rate is low, according to\u00a0VCA Animal Hospitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no proof of the virus spreading to humans from dogs, but experts believe the virus could mutate further if it continues to become established in dogs. The Independent reported that British scientists interpreted the study as revealing that dogs could be “patient zero” for the virus’s evolution. According to Professor James Wood, who heads the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the\u00a0University of Cambridge<\/a>, H3N2 seems to have become a dog-specific virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newsweek A bird flu virus that has\u00a0spread to canines\u00a0may hop hosts in the future, potentially infecting humans through their pet dogs, according to scientists at China Agricultural University. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic gained steam in 2020, more Americans have turned their eyes to the pathology and the origin of viruses, as well as methods to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech","category-zoonotic-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}