New-type lyssavirus discovered in bat carcass in Taiwan

Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced on Wednesday the discovery of a virus that could be a new type of lyssavirus, a genus of ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus that, as with the rabies virus, can be transmitted from animals to humans and is extremely deadly.

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