mystery virus

Mystery Virus Still Keeping Secrets (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 10/13/2010 - 15:49

(MedPage Today) -- Despite three new research papers, the picture of the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) remains unclear.


 

ICAAC: Deadly New Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Described (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 09/16/2009 - 14:07

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- The mystery virus that left four of five patients with viral hemorrhagic fever dead in a 2008 outbreak in South Africa appears to be a novel arenavirus similar in severity to its viral cousin Ebola, researchers reported.