
%0 Journal Article
%A MacKenzie, John S 
%A Prowse, Stephen J 
%T Nipah virus
%J Microbiology Australia
%D 2009/09/01
%V 30
%N 4
%P 145-145
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MA09145
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MA09145 
%X Nipah virus emerged in 1999 in Peninsula Malaysia, where it caused a severe respiratory disease in pigs, some of which also displayed encephalitic symptoms. Humans became infected following contact with infected pigs and suffered a severe encephalitic disease. There were a total of 276 human infections in Malaysia and Singapore, with 106 deaths, a case fatality rate of 38.4% 1. The outbreak was finally contained by culling just over one million pigs at significant cost to the Malaysian economy. 
