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US - The executive committee of the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses has approved the naming of a new virus as influenza D.The committee officially announced a new genus, Orthomyxovirdae, with a single species, Influenza D virus, because of its distinctness from other influenza types—A, B and C.The virus was first discovered by South Dakota State University researcher Ben Hause back in 2011 when he isolated the virus from a diseased pig.He later found that cattle were the primary reservoir for influenza D and identified and characterised the new virus as part of his doctoral research under professor Feng Li's tutelage.
國際病毒分類學委員會(the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses)的執行委員會批準一種新病毒命名為D型流感。委員會同時也正式宣布一種新的正粘病毒科病毒種類出現，該病毒物種單一。由于要把它與流感病毒A型、B型和C型區分開來，所以稱為D型流感病毒。南達科塔州立大學研究員Ben Hause在2011年首次發現了這種病毒，當時他從一頭患病豬身上分離出了這種病毒，后來又發現牛也是D型流感的原始宿主。在Feng Li教授的指導下，他把新病毒特性作為自己博士研究的一部分。
