Common human coronaviruses, including types E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1, usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold. Most people get infected with one or more of these viruses at some point in their lives. This information applies to common human coronaviruses and should not be confused with coronavirus disease formerly referred to as Novel Coronavirus. Human coronaviruses can sometimes cause lower-respiratory tract illnesses, such as pneumonia or bronchitis.
This is more common in people with cardiopulmonary disease, people with weakened immune systems, infants, and older adults. In the United States, people usually get infected with common human coronaviruses in the fall and winter, but you can get infected at any time of the year. Young children are most likely to get infected, but people can have multiple infections in their lifetime.
There is no vaccine to protect you against human coronaviruses and there are no specific treatments for illnesses caused by human coronaviruses. Vertical route e. Arthropod-borne route e. Rodent-associated transmission: Lassa fever virus, sin nombre, and other hanta viruses e.
Understanding virus classification can lead to important generalizations regarding the prevention and treatment of viral infection and insights into the distribution and evolution of viruses. In addition, insights from viral taxonomy play key roles in preventing and staunching the spread of viral disease at the population level. All references are available online at www. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
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Moreover, these viruses are very genetically diverse and new genotypes, strains and species evolve rapidly over periods of years or decades. A fraction of these viruses both existing and newly evolved are capable of infecting humans. The distinction is potentially important as it implies different determinants of the rate of emergence of viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential: for off-the-shelf pathogens this rate is largely driven by the rate of human contact with a diversity of virus genotypes possibly rare genotypes within the non-human reservoir i.
Whichever of these two models is correct perhaps both , there is a clear implication that the emergence of new human viruses is a long-standing and ongoing biological process. Whether this process will eventually slow down or stop if the bulk of new virus species constitute extant diversity or whether it will continue indefinitely if a significant proportion of newly discovered virus species are newly evolved remains unclear, although this makes little difference to immediate expectations.
If anthropogenic drivers of this process are important then it is possible that we are in the midst of a period of particularly rapid virus emergence and, in any case, with the advent of new virus detection technologies, we are very likely to be entering a period of accelerated virus discovery.
By no means all of these will pose a serious risk to public health but, if the recent past is a reliable guide to the immediate future, it is very likely that some will. The first line of defence against emerging viruses is effective surveillance. This topic has been widely discussed in recent years [ 10 , 41 ], but we will re-iterate a few key points here. Firstly, emerging viruses are everyone's problem: the ease with which viruses can disperse, potentially worldwide within days, coupled with the very wide geographical distribution of emergence events [ 9 ], means that a coordinated, global surveillance network is essential if we are to ensure rapid detection of novel viruses.
This immediately highlights the enormous national and regional differences in detection capacity, with the vast majority of suitable facilities located in Europe or North America. Secondly, reporting of unusual disease events is patchy, even once detected, reflecting both governance issues and lack of incentives [ 10 ]. Thirdly, we need to consider extending the surveillance effort to other mammal populations as well as humans, because these are the most likely source of new human viruses.
Improving the situation will require both political will and considerable investment in infrastructure, human capacity and new tools [ 10 , 41 ]. However, the benefits are potentially enormous. It is possible to forestall an emerging disease event, as experience with SARS has shown.
However, our ability to achieve this is closely linked to our ability to detect such an event, and deliver effective interventions, as rapidly as possible. A better understanding of the emergence of new human viruses as a biological and ecological process will allow us to refine our currently very crude notions of the kinds of pathogens, or the kinds of circumstances, we should be most concerned about, and so direct our efforts at detection and prevention more efficiently.
We are grateful to colleagues in Edinburgh's Epidemiology Research Group and elsewhere for stimulating discussions and to two anonymous referees for thoughtful comments on the manuscript.
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This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract There are virus species that are known to be able to infect humans. Keywords: discovery curves, emerging infectious diseases, public health, risk factors, surveillance. Virus diversity and discovery a Survey of human viruses As a starting point for our survey, we used a previously published database see [ 5 ] obtained by systematically searching the primary scientific literature up to and including for reports of human infection with recognized virus species, using species as defined by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ICTV [ 6 ].
Open in a separate window. Figure 1. Table 1. Figure 2. Table 2. Emergence as a biological process a Non-human reservoirs More than two-thirds of human virus species are zoonotic, i. Figure 3. Figure 4. Conclusions The lines of evidence described earlier combine to suggest the following tentative model of the emergence process for novel human viruses.
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