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Should we be concerned about COVID‐19 with nonhuman primates?
Author(s) -
Santos Wesley José,
Guiraldi Lívia Maísa,
Lucheis Simone Baldini
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1098-2345
pISSN - 0275-2565
DOI - 10.1002/ajp.23158
Subject(s) - covid-19 , virology , pandemic , betacoronavirus , biology , evolutionary biology , psychology , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has radically changed the human activities worldwide. Although we are still learning about the disease, it is necessary that primatologists, veterinarians, and all that are living with nonhuman primates (NHP) be concerned about the probable health impacts as these animals face this new pandemic. We want to increase discussion with the scientific community that is directly involved with these animals, because preliminary studies report that NHP may become infected and develop symptoms similar to those in human beings.