This 2 - year - old chimp named Betty succumbed to a human common cold virus in Uganda. (news.wisc.edu)
The viruses include the influenza virus, the cold sore virus herpes simplex, and two types of common cold virus called adenoviruses and reoviruses. (newscientist.com)
The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained. (sciencemag.org)