#nipah-virus

#nipah-virus

Qimmit - a type of sled dog that has been kept by Inuit in Greenland for nearly 1,000 years - don't share much DNA with wolves, despite a reputation for having been interbred.

"This is a revolution in the right direction," says Vinod Balasubramaniam, a molecular virologist at Monash University Malaysia in Subang Jaya.

By analysing the infectome of bat kidneys collected near village orchards and caves in Yunnan, we uncovered not only the diverse microbes bats carry, but also the first full-length genomes of novel bat-borne henipaviruses closely related to Hendra and Nipah viruses identified in China.