Hemorrhagic Fever
Ngari virus associated with outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in Africa
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 17th, 2004
"Two isolates of a virus of the genus Orthobunyavirus (family Bunyaviridae) were obtained from hemorrhagic fever cases during a large disease outbreak in East Africa in 1997 and 1998. Sequence analysis of regions of the three genomic RNA segments of the virus (provisionally referred to as Garissa virus) suggested that it was a genetic reassortant virus with S and L segments derived from Bunyamwera virus but an M segment from an unidentified virus of the genus Orthobunyavirus," scientists in the United States report.
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