title: Introduction to Pandemic Influenza (Animal & Veterinary Science)
author: Jonathan Van-Tam
description: Jonathan Van-Tam is Professor of Health Protection at City Hospital, Nottingham.
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  Journal of Autoimmunity
  journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jautimm
  Review article
  The epidemiology and pathogenesis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
  outbreak
  Hussin A. Rothana, Siddappa N. Byrareddyb,c,d,∗
  a Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  b Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, USA
  c Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Omaha, NE, USA
  d Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, USA
  A R T I C L E I N F O
  Keywords:
  Coronavirus
  COVID-19
  Wuhan city
  Pneumonia
  Pathogenesis
  A B S T R A C T
  Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by SARS-COV2 and represents the causative agent of a potentially
  fatal disease that is of great global public health concern. Based on the large number of infected people that were
  exposed to the wet animal market i