Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa


	Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f70827f4-4f94-443c-8db5-87914cecd950/0FBA4AAE-4476-4D79-AD1B-277A23045669/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><H1>Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><DIV class="byline">
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        By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer        <SPAN class="fn org">Mike Stobbe, Ap Medical Writer</SPAN>
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    <ABBR class="timedate" title="2009-05-28T18:15:02-0700">Thu May 28, 9:15 pm ET</ABBR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><P>ATLANTA – Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_0" class="yshortcuts">Africa</SPAN> that causes bleeding like the dreaded <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_1" class="yshortcuts">Ebola virus</SPAN>. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_2" class="yshortcuts">Zambia</SPAN> and <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_3" class="yshortcuts">South Africa</SPAN> last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><P>It's not clear how the first person became infected, but the bug comes from a family of viruses found in rodents, said Dr. Ian Lipkin, a <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_4" class="yshortcuts">Columbia University epidemiologist</SPAN> involved in the discovery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><P>"This one is really, really aggressive" he said of the virus.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><P>A paper on the virus by Lipkin and his collaborators was published online Thursday on in <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_5" class="yshortcuts">PLoS Pathogens</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_he_me/med_new_african_virus"><P>The outbreak started in September, when a female travel agent who lives on the outskirts of <SPAN id="lw_1243559709_6" class="yshortcuts">Lusaka, Zambia</SPAN>, became ill with a fever-like illness that quickly grew much worse.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0FBA4AAE-4476-4D79-AD1B-277A23045669/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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