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...Number of deaths in Bangladesh since Jan. 4 attributed to the incurable, sars-like Nipah virus. Fruit bats serve as host for the virus...
...Amid the gloom and uncertainty, there has been some hope. WHO scientists say they are increasingly confident that SARS is one of a family of microbes known as paramyxo-viruses, which includes the pathogens responsible for measles, mumps and the Nipah virus, which killed 105 people in Malaysia four years ago. On March 21, WHO announced that intensive efforts among 11 laboratories had produced the first potential diagnostic test for SARS, which up until now could be identified only by its symptoms. "This is not just some light at the end of the tunnel," says WHO virologist Dr. Klaus St?hr...
...species, while in hospitals and in jungle clinics exceedingly powerful mutant bacteria are emerging that can't be treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
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