Highlights the potential for human-to-primate transmission of coxsackie B3 virus causing severe respiratory disease.
Warrants vigilance for coxsackie B3 in primate respiratory cases; leaves open the frequency of human-to-primate transmission.
In 2010, a chimpanzee died at Copenhagen Zoo following an outbreak of respiratory disease among chimpanzees in the zoo. Identification of coxsackie B3 virus, a common human pathogen, as the causative agent, and its severe manifestation, raise questions about pathogenicity and transmissibility among humans and other primates.
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