[vetvetdoug]

Thanks for the CDC link. It looks as another Murine virus has mutated and become another plague; Hantavirus revisited. I have worked with literally thousands of mice in research and rarely saw any pneumonia in the little critters. I was hoping for there to be more of the sequence to be closer to the Feline Coronavirus (FIP) because the technology to make an intranasal vaccine had already been perfected and there would be a track record for the vaccine makers to follow. As it is, they will have to start from ground zero.

As for the relationship with the paramyxovirus, I believe it was coincidental and the metapneumonia virus was a non-pathogenic saphrophytic strain.

[CathyRyan]

Murine virus has mutated and become another plague; Hantavirus revisited.

Guess that would go along with the blood found in the lungs at autopsy?

[Lessismore]

The genome is said to be different from the other three families of known coronavirus.

In Guangdong, prosperity has given rise to many restaurants that serve a wide range of species.

Perhaps there are other coronaviruses that infect exotics? Although the known coronaviruses infect warm-blooded animals, the restaurants do serve a variety of reptiles as well.