Which of these viruses takes its name from a place in Malaysia?
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Nipah was first identified in Malaysia in 1999. It’s named after a Malaysian village called Sungai Nipah where pig farmers started developing encephalitis. and the virus is mipahawa virus
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Nipah was the virus that formed its name from the place in Malaysia.
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It was first identified in the Malaysian village Sungai Nipah in the year 1999. So this virus was named according to the name of the village.
It was first seen in domestic pigs and later on it was found in dogs, cats, horses, goats, and sheep. Then it was spread to the human also. The organism which is responsible for the Nipah virus encephalitis is an RNA virus.
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