{"id":55876,"date":"2017-03-04T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=55876"},"modified":"2017-03-04T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:10:00","slug":"taste-pork-helped-deadly-virus-jump-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/taste-pork-helped-deadly-virus-jump-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste for Pork Helped a Deadly Virus Jump to Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a balmy Sunday evening in early 1999, and Dr. Kaw Bing Chua hadn&#8217;t had lunch or dinner.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t time to eat. Chua was chasing a killer. And he thought maybe he had finally tracked it down.<\/p>\n<p>He slid the slide under the microscope lens, turned on the scope&#8217;s light and looked inside. &#8220;A chill went down my spine,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tll.org.sg\/group-leaders\/kaw-bing-chua-md-ph-d-senior-director-srp\/\">Chua<\/a> says. &#8220;The slide lit up bright green, like bright green lanterns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right there, in Chua&#8217;s hands, was a virus the world had never seen before. And as he soon learned, it&#8217;s also one of the most dangerous ones.<\/p>\n<p>Now Chua had enough of the virus to kill everyone in the lab. Maybe worse.<\/p>\n<p>The new virus \u2014 eventually called Nipah \u2014 is on the World Health Organization&#8217;s list of viruses most likely to cause a global pandemic. It&#8217;s the virus that inspired the 2011 movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g\">Contagion<\/a>. 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