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Doctors baffled by backpacker's virus

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Source: http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/doctors-baffled-by-backpackers-virus-2485973.html

Doctors baffled by backpacker's virus
By Adelina Campos
Thursday January 06 2011

MEDICS remain unsure about the nature of the deadly virus which caused an Irish backpacker to suffer a stroke and lose her speech for months.

Karen Hamill (27), from Tallaght, Dublin, was on her way back home from New Zealand via Vietnam last October when she was struck down with an unknown type of encephalitis that attacked her brain and put her life in jeopardy.

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The HSE arranged for Karen to be flown back home once her condition had stabilised last week, and she was immediately transferred to a Dublin hospital on December 27 where doctors have been running tests to identify the disease.

Leading Irish and foreign experts have failed to recognise her condition so far and remain baffled by this new virus strain...
 
Re: Doctors baffled by backpacker's virus

http://www.hkupasteur.hku.hk/respari/images/content/sisea_meeting_hcmc_2009.pdf
New viruses have been found such as the detection of Nam Dinh virus ? an Aterivirus in Nam Dinh province, Northern Vietnam (2002); Banna virus, the virus belonging to Reoviridae family in Gia Lai, Highlands (2005) and Acmong virus in Bac Giang province, Northern Vietnam (2004 ? 2007).
Therefore, the development of diagnostic reagents need to be mentioned for further research on sero-diagnosis and sero epidemiological surveillance in order to supply the information about the situation of other new viruses cause acute encephalitis syndrome in Vietnam.
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