University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Curr Opin Virol. 2020 Feb;40:37-40. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2020.05.010. Epub 2020 Jun 4.
A new coronavirus (CoV) called SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 as the etiological agent of a viral pneumonia called COVID-19. The global spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been so extensive that the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Below, we discuss the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and provide the historical context, which strongly suggests emerging CoVs provide an immediate threat to global public health and will continue to do so in the future.
一种新型冠状病毒(CoV)于 2019 年 12 月在中国武汉出现,是一种名为 COVID-19 的病毒性肺炎的病原体。SARS-CoV-2 在全球范围内广泛传播,世界卫生组织于 2020 年 3 月 11 日宣布 COVID-19 为大流行。下面,我们讨论 SARS-CoV-2 的出现,并提供历史背景,这强烈表明新兴的 CoV 对全球公共卫生构成了直接威胁,并将在未来继续如此。