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In an unusual disciplinary action, a Harvard teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where two patients received large overdoses of an anti-cancer drug, has been put on probation by the country's leading agency for certifying hospital quality. If the problems are not corrected within six months, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations could revoke the hospital's accreditation

A blood specimen kept frozen for more than three decades and tested with techniques developed only in the last few years has led to the discovery of three previously unknown hepatitis viruses. Abbott Laboratories, which discovered the viruses, are conducting studies to determine how often the virus makes people sick, which groups of people are most affected and how the viruses are transmitted

The story of how researchers at Abbott Laboratories came to identify three new hepatitis viruses using blood that had been taken from a man in the early 1960s is briefly related

It is not known where the virus came from or why it suddenly appeared in Australian horses. The virus jumped species to infect two men who had contact with the sick horses: a 49-year-old horse trainer and 40-year-old stable hand. The trainer died from a severe lung infection known as interstitial pneumonia. The stable hand recovered. LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

A mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, was found to have the characteristics of the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, the researchers reported in yesterday's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since what is now known as measles was identified in the 10th century. Diagnostic tests developed by [Keith] Murray's team showed that the outbreak was over quickly. No other cases were found in horses or humans. But the team was unable to establish where the virus came from and it can't explain why the virus suddenly appeared in horses in Australia

A mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, belongs to the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, researchers are reporting in today's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since the measles virus was identified in the 10th century. A team led by Dr. Keith Murray, of the government's top security Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria, was quickly called in to try to identify the virus, which had already killed some horses and had infected two humans

A mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, belongs to the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, the researchers report in today's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since the measles virus was identified in the 10th century. A team led by Dr. Keith Murray, of the government's top security Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria, was quickly called in to try to identify the virus, which had already killed some horses and had infected two humans

An outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, belongs to the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, the researchers are reporting in Science. It reportedly is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since the measles virus was identified in the 10th century. The scientists speculate that the virus is spread by nasal secretions or saliva. Tests developed by [Keith] Murray's team showed that the outbreak was over quickly. No other cases were found in horses or humans. But the team was unable to establish where the virus came from, nor can it explain why the virus suddenly appeared in horses in Australia

NEW YORK - A mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, was found to have the characteristics of the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, the researchers reported in today's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since the measles virus was identified in the 10th century

Researchers say a new virus is responsible for the mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses in Australia. The virus, which has not been named, is related to the measles virus, the researchers are reporting in Friday's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since the measles disease virus was identified in the 10th century. A team led by Dr. Keith Murray, of the government's top security Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria, was quickly called in to try to identify the virus, which had already killed some horses and had infected two humans