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Nature Reviews Microbiology 7, 484 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrmicro2175

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New arenavirus found The improving nature of rapid pathogen diagnostics was ably demonstrated during the recent identification and characterization of the first Old World haemorrhagic fever-associated arenavirus to be identified in more than 30 years. In late 2008, five cases of haemorrhagic fever were identified in Johannesburg, South Africa, following the airlift of a critically ill patient from Lusaka in Zambia.