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Fatal infection of a pet monkey with Human herpesvirus
Hartwig P Huemer1, Clara Larcher, Thomas Czedik-Eysenberg
1University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. hartwig.huemer@uibk.ac.at
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
Concerns have been raised about pet monkeys as a potential threat to humans. We report the opposite situation, a danger to pets that arises from humans. Similar to herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1), which endangers humans but not its host species, Human herpesvirus 1 can act as a "killer virus" when crossing the species barrier to New World monkeys.