Crystal ball 2020: viral discovery in the ‘realm’ of COVID ‐19
Crystal ball 2020: viral discovery in the ‘realm’ of COVID ‐19
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水晶球 2020:新冠病毒“领域”中的病毒发现 - 19
DOI:
10.1111/1758-2229.12912
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Vega Thurber, Rebecca
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作者:
Bistolas, Kalia;Vega Thurber, Rebecca
As we sit six feet apart in the San Francisco airport terminal, waiting for a flight to our field site, we hear an attendant’s voice echoing,‘All passengers must provide proof of a negative RT-qPCR COVID-19 test prior to boarding the airplane’. A year ago, we would have been hardpressed to hear such terminology on any loudspeaker in a major US airport. But a year ago, we were not mid-pandemic. When we reach the front of the boarding line, the attendant checks our documentation as another scans the crowd for anyone looking ill, sweating, coughing. In the corner, a teenager reads about viral replication in the New York Times (Corum and Zimmer, 2020). Another few rows over, a child is teaching his two stuffed dinosaurs-both wearing tiny masks-how to properly distance themselves. After we land in French Polynesia, we are briefed by an army of attendants and biosafety agents on what COVID-19 is, how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted, and how to self-administer a diagnostic test and return it to a local processing facility. This is virology gone mainstream. For anyone who has witnessed and characterized epizootics and heard the many predictions of the next major emerging infectious disease (EID) in wildlife, humans, or both (Ogden et al., 2017), this has been a surreal experience. The surfacing and spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been an explicit (and sobering) reminder that increased human interaction with wildlife and habitat encroachment pose a threat not only to wildlife health but our own. As human influence advances, these potential threats extend beyond the terrestrial and into aquatic ecosystems through the aquaculture we consume, the waterways we utilize, and the organisms we increasingly encounter (Cotruvo et al., 2013). The magnitude and frequency of mass mortality events (MMEs) within marine ecosystems are escalating incrementally, although it is often unclear if these are due to greater detection efforts or external factors such as pollution and thermal stress mediated by climate change (Fey et al., 2015; Sanderson and Alexander, 2020). Uniting trends in the emergence of marine epizootics have included changes in either (i) host distribution (eg the joined proximity of normally allopatric species through alterations in land use, trade, travel, or migration, and increases in host density) or (ii) microbial phenotype (eg change in transmissibility, pathogenicity, or host niche through genetic adaptation)(Daszak, 2000; Ogden et al., 2017). In marine mammals, a recent study concluded that 72% of MMEs were likely attributable to viral pathogens, indicating unique attributes for spillover and transmissibility as EIDs and reflecting their potential zoonotic threat (Sanderson and Alexander, 2020). These viruses pose risks to aquatic community stability, biodiversity, conservation efforts and aquaculture economy, and do not appear to be isolated from terrestrial ecosystems. For example, evidence of multiple instances of morbillivirus infection (eg canine distemper) spillover from domesticated dogs to pinnipeds suggest proximity of the two hosts may have played a factor, arbovirus identification (eg mosquito-borne togaviruses and flaviviruses in cetaceans) may be indicative of viral vectoring by terrestrial invertebrates, and the atypical spread of a herpesviruslike MME among pilchards (Australia, 1995–98) suggest involvement of seabirds (Lafferty and Harvell, 2014; Bossart and Duignan, 2018). This epizootic among pilchards also showed the ability of marine viruses to spread rapidly (5000 km in 7 months), further driving the hypothesis that MMEs may advance faster in aquatic ecosystems (due to water having a higher connectivity and lower granularity than air …