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BRITISH red squirrels have suffered from epidemic outbreaks of unidentified disease at various times in the past, sometimes with mortality rates exceeding 90 per cent1. At Thetford Chase (Norfolk) sick and dying squirrels were seen recently with symptoms including paralysis of the hind legs. No grey squirrels are known in this area, so it was decided to attempt isolation of virus material from the red squirrel population to initiate a study of virus diseases affecting squirrels in Britain.
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VIZOSO, A., VIZOSO, M. & HAY, R. Isolation of a Virus resembling Encephalomyocarditis from a Red Squirrel. Nature 201, 849–850 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201849a0
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