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Researchers Discover Shrimp & Fish Virus That Can Infect Human Eyes
One patient reportedly suffered permanent vision loss due to the virus.
Researchers from universities in China, Australia, and Singapore have discovered a virus that can reportedly be transmitted from seafood such as shrimp and fish to humans
According to a study published in March by Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao Eye Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, the University of Melbourne, and Duke-NUS Medical School, the virus, known as covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV), was first discovered in farmed shrimp in 2014.
Its discovery helped scientists explain a disease that had caused major losses to China's shrimp farming industry in 2009, reported SCMP.
Today, researchers found that the virus has since spread across multiple continents.
In Asia, about 35% of shrimp samples and 40% of fish samples tested positive for CMNV.
The virus was also detected in marine specimens from the Americas, Africa, and Antarctica.
Meanwhile, testing conducted on 351 seafood products from markets across six Chinese provinces found CMNV in between 33% and 62% of samples involving fish, shrimp, crabs, molluscs, and cephalopods, reported Forbes.
CMNV is listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health as an emerging infectious disease, reported Taipei Times.
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