Seneca Valley virus re-emerges in swine in the upper Midwest United States
by Chris Whitehouse from Outbreak News Today on (#R3YB)
In 2002, a brand new virus was discovered - not in the jungles of Africa - but in an unlikely place, a biotech company in suburban Maryland. The Seneca Valley virus was originally isolated as a contaminant in cell culture medium - likely from the pig trypsin used for the cultivation of the cells. The ["]