
TY  - JOUR
A1  - MacKenzie, John S 
A1  - Prowse, Stephen J 
T1  - Nipah virus
JF  - Microbiology Australia
JO  - Microbiol. Aust.
Y1  - 2009
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 145
EP  - 145
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MA09145 
N2  - 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. 
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