A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans

A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans

It was a balmy Sunday evening in early 1999, and Dr. Kaw Bing Chua hadn't had lunch or dinner. There wasn't time to eat. Chua was chasing a killer.And he thought maybe he had finally tracked it down. He slid the slide under the microscope lens, turned on the scope's light and looked inside.

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Heartwrenching story about a deadly disease I'd never heard of which swept Malaysia and how a single researcher not only discovered the virus but also fought to make his voice heard, which may have saved his country.