Discovery of new viruses & their diseases

Our team has developed an effective human and animal surveillance system that has yielded several discoveries of immense public health importance including:

  • 2003 SARS-CoV (the cause of the 2003 SARS outbreak)
  • Bat SARS-CoV (the ancestor of 2003 SARS-CoV)
  • Human coronavirus HKU1 (which can cause severe pneumonia)
  • Bat coronaviruses HKU4 and HKU5 (closely related to MERS-CoV that caused a major human epidemic in the Middle East and South Korea)
  • Porcine deltacoronavirus HKU15 (closely related to a novel coronavirus causing human infections in Haiti)
  • Bat coronavirus HKU2 (closely related to the swine acute diarrheal virus causing an outbreak in piglets in Guangdong)
  • Human rat hepatitis E virus infection
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