ABSTRACT
The Nipah virus (NiV) is a novel virus that emerged to cause serious morbidity and mortality in hundreds of humans, and even more animals in Malaysia and Singapore. The vast majority of animals involved were pigs. The outbreak of human NiV infection started around September of 1998 in several pig farms just outside Ipoh, a city in the northern part of peninsular Malaysia. In this epicenter, there were about 27 patients with 15 fatalities (1).
