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Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China (Science, edited)
Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China (Science, edited)
[Source: Science, <cite cite="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/330/6000/20?sa_campaign=Email/toc/1-October-2010/10.1126/science.330.6000.20">Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China -- Stone 330 (6000): 20 -- Science</cite>. 10/01/10, edited.]
Science 1 October 2010:Vol. 330. no. 6000, pp. 20 - 21
DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6000.20
Infectious Diseases:
Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China
Richard Stone
Every summer for 3 years, hundreds of people in central China came down with an illness characterized by high fever and gastrointestinal distress; as many as 30% of the victims died. By early 2007, scientists had fingered the killer as human granulocytic anaplasmosis, an emerging bacterial infection from tick bites. But last December, a different team identified a new kind of bunyavirus, a family that includes infamous members such as hantavirus and Rift Valley fever virus. The finding unmasks a dangerous new emerging virus?not a bacterial outbreak?and explains why antibiotics failed to stop it. Behind the scenes, however, a fierce argument has broken out over who discovered the virus.
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[Source: Science, <cite cite="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/330/6000/20?sa_campaign=Email/toc/1-October-2010/10.1126/science.330.6000.20">Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China -- Stone 330 (6000): 20 -- Science</cite>. 10/01/10, edited.]
Science 1 October 2010:Vol. 330. no. 6000, pp. 20 - 21
DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6000.20
Infectious Diseases:
Rival Teams Identify a Virus Behind Deaths in Central China
Richard Stone
Every summer for 3 years, hundreds of people in central China came down with an illness characterized by high fever and gastrointestinal distress; as many as 30% of the victims died. By early 2007, scientists had fingered the killer as human granulocytic anaplasmosis, an emerging bacterial infection from tick bites. But last December, a different team identified a new kind of bunyavirus, a family that includes infamous members such as hantavirus and Rift Valley fever virus. The finding unmasks a dangerous new emerging virus?not a bacterial outbreak?and explains why antibiotics failed to stop it. Behind the scenes, however, a fierce argument has broken out over who discovered the virus.
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