Talk:June Almeida

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Coronavirus

June Almeida was an exceptionally gifted electron microscopist who made major contributions to clinical virology, but she did not discover coronaviruses. Avian infectious bronchitis, a disease known since the 1930s, was shown to be caused by a type of coronavirus in the 1960s by Berry, Cruickshank JG, Chu and Wells. ("THE STRUCTURE OF INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS". Virology. 23: 403–7. July 1964. doi:10.1016/0042-6822(64)90263-6. PMID 14194135. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)).

In her paper with David Tyrrell, published in 1967 ("The morphology of three previously uncharacterized human respiratory viruses that grow in organ culture". The Journal of General Virology. 1 (2): 175–8. April 1967. doi:10.1099/0022-1317-1-2-175. PMID 4293939. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)), she and Tyrell reported seeing viruses by electron microscopy that "resemble avian infectious bronchitis virus", a coronavirus.

Coronaviruses infect many species of mammals and birds. The coronaviruses that Almeida and Tyrrell reported in 1967 were those that cause the common cold, of which there are four types. She did not discover the viruses that cause SARS, MERS of COVID-19. It does her a discredit to perpetuate this untruth when there are so many of her genuine achievements that can be described. Please see the book by Booss and August that I added to the article as a reliable source. Graham Beards (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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