Title:
NIH extends funding of research into deadly Nipah virus
Author:
Krishna Ramanujan
Published:
Cornell Chronicle, 19 November 2020
From the article:
Nipah virus, which has a 40% to 90% mortality rate in humans, is listed by the World Health Organization as likely to cause future pandemics, and therefore requires “urgent action.”
A Cornell researcher is studying the Paramyxoviridae family – which includes Nipah virus – in an effort to understand the basic mechanisms of transmission and infection, which are necessary steps toward vaccine development and other therapies.