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LONDON (Reuters) - Professor Maria Zambon's first thought when her team of scientists matched a virus from a patient's sputum to one never before seen in humans was: "Oh no, this is going to be tricky."
In her north London laboratory last Saturday, an email came in from another specialist virology team in The Netherlands with a 99.5 percent match to a virus from the same family as SARS, a disease that emerged in 2002 and killed 800 people. Her thoughts moved swiftly to the risk of an international outbreak.
"Of course it's really interesting scientifically to get this kind of result, but you also think about what it might mean," she said in an interview. "Is this the tip of an iceberg? Or is this an isolated event?"
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http://news.yahoo.com/finding-virus-spit-sequencing-serendipity-134347251.html
In her north London laboratory last Saturday, an email came in from another specialist virology team in The Netherlands with a 99.5 percent match to a virus from the same family as SARS, a disease that emerged in 2002 and killed 800 people. Her thoughts moved swiftly to the risk of an international outbreak.
"Of course it's really interesting scientifically to get this kind of result, but you also think about what it might mean," she said in an interview. "Is this the tip of an iceberg? Or is this an isolated event?"
...
http://news.yahoo.com/finding-virus-spit-sequencing-serendipity-134347251.html