These new viruses are important, because some are causing threats to public health, livestock production and trade, and many may also pose a risk to wild animals where populations have already been reduced by environmental destruction or other factors," says Dr Wang.
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Set Van Nguyen was a microbiologist with the facility for fifteen years. It was established in 1985, sixteen years ago. He does not appear among the 177 CSIRO Staff Profiles nor in a search of the CSIRO site nor in a google search in any but the lone article of his death. In fifteen years with the premier animal virus facility in the world his sole accomplishment was to die.