New virus discovered in patients with central nervous system infections: an infection from livestock?
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Patients in Vietnam and other locations with central nervous system infections may well be suffering from the effects of a newly discovered virus. Researchers have detected a virus they’re calling CyCV-VN in spinal fluid from 4% of 642 patients with central nervous system infections of unknown cause, and in an average of 58% of fecal samples from pigs and poultry, suggesting animals may serve as reservoirs for transmission to humans. The virus belongs to the Cyclovirus genus, a group that has never before been implicated in human or animal disease.
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