Novel virus

A novel virus is a virus that has not previously been recorded. It can be a virus that is isolated from its natural reservoir or isolated as the result of spread to an animal or human host where the virus had not been identified before. It can be an emergent virus, one that represents a new virus, but it can also be an extant virus that has not been previously identified.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. Strauss, James H. Viruses and Human Disease. San Diego. Academic Press. 2002.
  2. Horowitz, Leonard G. Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional? Healthy World Distributor. April 1996.
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