First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) In a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine what killed a donkey, a Bennett's tree-kangaroo and a capybara at a German zoo -- all of them suffering from severe brain swelling. Neither team was aware of the other, yet they were both about to converge on a discovery that would help solve a long-enduring mystery.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news