Hacker News Reader

This is weird.

> the cheetahs, but developed no overt symptoms [6]. Also, experimental transmission of the Aju-CoV to three domestic kittens failed to cause disease [6]. Perhaps also relevant is that when the human SARS-CoV was induced in domestic cats, they developed no symptoms

1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(04)00143...

View on HN

I also find this weirdly dubious, but not impossible. I do know that to study human coronavirus in mice, we had to create a mouse line expressing the human ACE2 protein.

I just did a quick protein alignment and the %sequence identity between human and select animals are:

Bats: 81.5% Mice: 81.9% Dogs: 84.1% Cats: 85.2%

Reply on news.ycombinator.com