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Beware Europe's unknown viral nasties

3 May 2006

A VERITABLE zoo of nasty new viruses is circulating in Europe and could be killing people without even being suspected. In a study commissioned by the British government on the risk of insect-borne and other arthropod-borne viruses emerging in the UK, Ernie Gould of the University of Oxford warns that these diseases may be going unrecognised simply because no one is looking for them.

That should change following the launch of a second report on 26 April, which details what diseases may emerge over the next 25 years. “No one knows what major diseases may arise,” says the UK’s chief…

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