Nipah Virus - Agent of Infectious Dangerous Disease

Nipah virus outbreaks in Bangladesh: a deadly infectious disease.

During 2001-2011, multidisciplinary teams from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh(icddr,b) identified sporadic cases and 11 outbreaks of Nipah encephalitis. Three outbreaks were detected through sentinel surveillance; others were identified through event-based surveillance. A total of 196 cases...

Nipah virus--a potential agent of bioterrorism?

Nipah virus, a newly emerging deadly paramyxovirus isolated during a large outbreak of viral encephalitis in Malaysia, has many of the physical attributes to serve as a potential agent of bioterrorism. The outbreak caused widespread panic and fear because of its high mortality and the inability to control the disease initially. There were considerable social disruptions and tremendous economic ...

Characterization of a Highly Virulent Infectious Bursal Disease Virus

Borna disease virus: molecular analysis of a neurotropic infectious agent.

Borna disease (BD) was originally described in the 1 800s as an encephalitis in horses . Though it has been confirmed to occur as a natural infection only in horses and sheep, BD has been induced experimentally in birds, rodents and primates by inoculation with brain homogenates from infected animals .' BD is characterized by behavioral abnormalities, meningeal and parenchymal inflammatory cell...

Dangerous connections: on binding site models of infectious disease dynamics

We formulate models for the spread of infection on networks that are amenable to analysis in the large population limit. We distinguish three different levels: (1) binding sites, (2) individuals, and (3) the population. In the tradition of physiologically structured population models, the formulation starts on the individual level. Influences from the 'outside world' on an individual are captur...