Rhabdovirus image courtesy of UCSF
Virus hunters published a paper today in the science journal PLOS Pathogens, describing how a team spanning a number of institutions identified a deadly virus unknown to exist until it killed three people within a few days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used sophisticated technologies and techniques to detect the new virus, which could cause fatal hemorrhagic fever outbreaks similar to Ebola. Research like this can isolate viruses before they can cause epidemics... http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/27/how-we-found-the-deadly-bas-congo-virus/
