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Bearcroft and Jamieson1 reported an outbreak of a tumour epidemic in the laboratories of the West African Council for Medical Research in Yaba, Nigeria, among imported rhesus monkeys. Andrewes et al.2,3 showed that this epidemic resulted from a virus of the pox group. Sproul et al.4 classified the tumour as a histiocytoma. Earlier, we reported5 that Asiatic monkeys (Macaca, mulatta, Macaca irus and Macaca speciosa) are susceptible to the virus, and that a tumour developed, following accidental inoculation, in a laboratory worker as well as in five cancer patients. By contrast, African monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, Cercopithecus mona and Cercocebus fuliginosus) imported from east and west equatorial Africa are resistant. The hypothesis was advanced that this virus may be endemic in certain areas of Africa and that most African monkeys develop immunity at an early age.
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AMBRUS, J., STRANDSTRÖM, H. Susceptibility of Old World Monkeys to Yaba Virus. Nature 211, 876 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211876a0
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