|
|
Article: New arenavirus discovered as cause of hemorrhagic fever outbreak in South Africa and Zambia.
- Article from:
- NewsRx Health
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Roche's 454 Life Sciences Corporation have discovered the new virus responsible for a highly fatal hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Zambia and South Africa in late 2008. It is the first new hemorrhagic fever-associated arenavirus from Africa identified in nearly four decades. A detailed genetic analysis of this novel arenavirus, named Lujo virus, after the sites of the outbreak (Lusaka, Zambia, and Johannesburg, South Africa) is published ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: AIDS-SOUTH AFRICA: RIGHTS VS. PUBLIC ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;
December 22, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... 2008 PRETORIA, South Africa, Dec. 22, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Public health and individual ... It looks at public health practices and ... and migrants in South Africa. "Writing this ... rights to support public health, suggested Jody Kollapen, chair of South ...
|
|