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| Keywords: Nipah.jpg This transmission electron micrograph TEM depicted a number of Nipah virus virions that had been isolated from a patient's cerebrospinal fluid CSF specimen Nipah virus is a member of the family Paramyxoviridae and is related but not identical to Hendra virus Nipah virus was initially isolated in 1999 upon examining samples from an outbreak of encephalitis and respiratory illness among adult men in Malaysia and Singapore Hendra virus formerly called equine morbillivirus is also a member of the family Paramyxoviridae The virus was first isolated in 1994 from specimens obtained during an outbreak of respiratory and neurologic disease in horses and humans in Hendra a suburb of Brisbane Australia http //phil cdc gov/PHIL_Images/8948/8948_lores jpg CDC 2008-05-22 CDC/ C S Goldsmith P E Rollin public domain PD-USGov Nipah virus Diseases and disorders of horses | ||||
