Nipah Virus Infection in Dogs, Malaysia, 1999

Abstract

The 1999 outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in humans and pigs in Peninsular Malaysia ended with the evacuation of humans and culling of pigs in the epidemic area. Serologic screening showed that, in the absence of infected pigs, dogs were not a secondary reservoir for Nipah virus.

Keywords

• Dogs
• Nipah virus
• encephalitis
• pigs
• zoonoses
• Malaysia