Probable Transmission of Coxsackie B3 Virus from Human to Chimpanzee, Denmark

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• viruses
• coxsackie B3 virus
• chimpanzee
• myocarditis
• Copenhagen Zoo
• coxsackievirus