Serological evidence of henipavirus exposure in cattle, goats and pigs in Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Sukanta Chowdhury (Author), Salah Uddin Khan (Author), Gary Crameri (Author), Jonathan H Epstein (Author), Christopher C Broder (Author), Ausraful Islam (Author), Alison J Peel (Author), Jennifer Barr (Author), Peter Daszak (Author), Lin-Fa Wang (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging disease that causes severe encephalitis and respiratory illness in humans. Pigs were identified as an intermediate host for NiV transmission in Malaysia. In Bangladesh, NiV has caused recognized human outbreaks since 2001 and three outbreak investigations identified...