Published in Virus Weekly, August 8th, 2000
"Recently, a new paramyxovirus, now known as Nipah virus (NV), emerged in Malaysia and Singapore, causing fatal encephalitis in humans and a respiratory syndrome in pigs," B.H. Harcourt and others in the Center's Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch reported in the journal Virology.
At first glance, the new virus appeared to be both antigenically and genetically related to the previously identified...
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