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New forms of virulent pathogen identified
Friday February 08, 2013 03:30:10 PM,
IANS
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Sydney: Four new forms
of one of the most virulent pathogens, hantavirus, transmitted
from animals to humans, have been identified by a team of
researchers.
Hantavirus causes flu-like symptoms which can bring on respiratory
and kidney failure in humans. It usually appears as sporadic
disease outbreaks such as that in 1993 in a US region bordering
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.
"Our research describes four novel hantaviruses, sampled from bats
and shrews in China, which are distinct from known hantaviruses,"
says study co-author Eddie Holmes, professor and Australia Fellow
at the University of Sydney, the journal Public Library of Science
Pathogen reports.
"Hantavirus is a major threat to global health, making information
that adds to our poor understanding of how it evolved and is
transmitted an important contribution to fighting the disease,"
adds Holmes.
The finding also suggests there may be additional unrecognised
hantaviruses circulating in a wide range of animal hosts,
particularly bats, and that the hantaviruses frequently jump
hosts, according to a Sydney statement.
The new international research on hantavirus is led by researchers
at the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to which
Holmes contributed.
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