MSU Researcher Guides Study of Nipah Virus Spillover

BOZEMAN – Though Nipah virus was first identified in 1999, its 2018 appearance in Kerala, an Indian state on the Arabian Sea near the tip of the subcontinent, was a surprise that prompted action for researchers at Montana State University.

“We can’t predict why or where it’s going to emerge next,” said Raina Plowright, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Letters and Science and the College of Agriculture.

After the 2018 outbreak, which killed 21 people in Kerala, Plowright and members of her laboratory began working with biologists in the r...

 

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