January 13, 2012 |
By Kai Kupferschmidt, ScienceNOW

Scientists in northern Europe are scrambling to learn more about a new virus that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle,
sheep, and goats. For now, they don’t have a clue about the virus’s origins or why it’s suddenly causing an outbreak; in order to
speed up the process, they want to share the virus and protocols for detecting it with anyone interested in studying the disease or
developing diagnostic tools and vaccines.


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