Emerging Pathogens

New Nipah Virus Shows Similarities to Hendra Virus

Published in Virus Weekly, August 8th, 2000

Preliminary investigation of the newly identified Nipah virus has shown that it shares many characteristics with Hendra virus, but it is a separate and distinct virus, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers.

"Recently, a new paramyxovirus, now known as Nipah virus (NV), emerged in Malaysia and Singapore, causing fatal encephalitis in humans and a respiratory syndrome in pigs," B.H. Harcourt and others in the Center's Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch reported in the journal Virology.

At first glance, the new virus appeared to be both antigenically and genetically related to the previously identified...

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