From Hendra to Wuhan: what has been learned in responding to emerging zoonotic viruses

Wang, Lin‐Fa; Anderson, Danielle E.; Mackenzie, John S.; Merson, Michael H.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30350-0

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“…Before that, the 2019 novel coronavirus was designated as "WH-Human-1 coronavirus" or "Wuhan-Human-1 coronavirus" by a group of scientists in Nature on 3 February 23 . In the same vein, on 11 February, another name "HARS-CoV", with 'Han' standing for 'Wuhan in Chinese', was proposed in The Lancet 24 . Obviously, such practices are against the naming principles of WHO 25 geographic locations should be avoided in disease names, and the name should be short and easy to pronounce.…”

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Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic

Hu¹,

Yang²,

Li³

et al. 2020

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Less aligned emphasis has been given to the COVID-19 infodemic coordinating with the COVID-19 outbreak. Global profusion of tangled monikers and hashtags has found their ways in daily communication and contributed to backlash against Chinese. Official naming efforts against infodemic should be meet with a fair share of identification. Based on brief critical reviews on previous multifarious naming practices, we punctuate heuristic introspection in scientific conventions and sociocultural paradigms. Infodemiological analysis promises to articulate that people around the globe are divided in their favor stigmatized monikers in the public and scientific communities because of perceptual bias. There is no positive correlation between the degree of infection in their territories and collective perceptual bias to COVID-19. The official portfolio “COVID-19” and “SARS-CoV-2” has not become de facto standard usages, but full-fledged official names are excepted to duly contribute to the resilience of negative perceptual bias and collective behavioral propensities.

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Section: Wuhan Coronavirus Pneumoniamentioning

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Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic

Hu¹,

Yang²,

Li³

et al. 2020

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“…Before that, the 2019 novel coronavirus was designated as "WH-Human-1 coronavirus" or "Wuhan-Human-1 coronavirus" by a group of scientists in Nature on 3 February [18]. In the same vein, on 11 February, another name "HARS-CoV", with 'Han' standing for 'Wuhan in Chinese', was proposed in The Lancet [19]. Obviously, such practices are against the naming principles of WHO [20] geographic locations should be avoided in disease names, and the name should be short and easy to pronounce.…”

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Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Hu¹,

Zhang²,

Q³

et al. 2020

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Less aligned emphasis has been given to naming the 2019 novel coronavirus and pandemic disease. Global profusion of squab names has found their ways in daily communication, and our survey promises to articulate that many of them may have contributed to backlash against Chinese people. Here, based on brief critical reviews on the naming of coronavirus and human coronaviruses, we scrutinize a clear sense of pros and cons of previous multifarious names and punctuate heuristic introspection of naming practices. Our findings suggest that full-fledged official names are duly contribute to the resilience of healthy collective usages in current infodemic scenario.

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“…Molecular modelling has indicated that the binding affinity of SARS-CoV-2 to ACE-2 may be even higher than that of SARS-CoV and it may therefore be more efficient at infecting human cells 17 [3][4][5][6][7] , but this information was not widely available until a sequence was reported on 12 January 2020. Interestingly, this was the first time that NGS had alerted the world to a new zoonotic virus before the virus had been isolated, and it suggests that a new procedure for reporting outbreaks based on NGS rather than pathogen isolation and identification needs to be considered 19 .…”

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“…There is some evidence that virus can be isolated from saliva 36 and while the initial family cluster found no evidence of virus in stools or urine 8 , it has since been detected in faeces by PCR in other patients 30,37,38 and cultured in one patient, but there has been no evidence of virus in urine. The number of mild or asymptomatic cases has not been determined and relatively few cases have been recorded, but it is probable that current figures only see the tip of the iceberg, and many cases remain undiagnosed 19 . They pose the greatest threat for increased virus spread 27 .…”

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COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't

Mackenzie¹,

2020

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At the end of December, 2019, a new disease of unknown aetiology appeared in Wuhan, China. It was quickly identified as a novel betacoronavirus, and related to SARS-CoV and a number of other bat-borne SARS-like coronaviruses. The virus rapidly spread to all provinces in China, as well as a number of countries overseas, and was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the Director-General of the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. This paper describes the evolution of the outbreak, and the known properties of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical disease it causes, COVID-19, and comments on some of the important gaps in our knowledge of the virus and the disease it causes. The virus is the third zoonotic coronavirus, after SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but appears to be the only one with pandemic potential.

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From Hendra to Wuhan: what has been learned in responding to emerging zoonotic viruses

Cited by 82 publications

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Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic

Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic

Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't

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