Study pins chimpanzee deaths in Africa on human flu virus
US-based researchers probing five chimpanzee deaths in Uganda in 2013 have discovered a human common cold virus rhinovirus C behind the outbreak affecting a community of 56. "This was an explosive outbreak of severe coughing and sneezing. It was completely unknown that rhinovirus C could infect anything other than humans...and surprising that it could kill healthy chimpanzees," said a researcher.