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New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
Drug blocks 2 of world's deadliest emerging viruses
March 25th, 2009
Two highly lethal viruses that have emerged in recent outbreaks are susceptible to chloroquine, an established drug used to prevent and treat malaria, according to a new basic science study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Journal of Virology. Due to the study's significance, a manuscript was published online, in advance of the print issue, and will be highlighted as an editor's "spotlight" in the first May issue. The two henipaviruses that are the subject of the study -- Hendra Virus (HeV) and Nipah Virus (NiV) -- emerged during the 1990s in Australia and Southeast Asia. Harbored by fruit bats, they cause potentially fatal encephalitis and...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-25)
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