NEW VIRUS DISCOVERED IN BRAZIL, NAMED YARAVIRUS

Highlights:

• A new and unique virus
• Carries the orphan gene
• Is not a viral agent.

Yaravirus is a new virus that has been discovered by the scientists in Brazil. A virus with no predecessors, it owns completely new genome. Since this virus was discovered in a sample of water from Lake Pampulha, it is named yara meaning a water –queen. Yara or lara is a mythological....