Researcher may have contracted virus carried by monkeys

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

It's the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities. At the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, last year, a newly identified form of virus devastated a monkey colony and sickened a researcher, who likely carried it outside the facility, officials said.

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