Context

• Team of researchers extracted RNA from a large number of mosquitoes in Australia’s Victoria state; they found a new alphavirus, which belonged to a group that includes other alphaviruses such as chikungunya virus and the astern equine encephalitis.
• The virus poses no threat to human beings, because it is a part of a group of viruses that only infect mosquitoes.
• Other viruses in the same group include the Tai forest alphavirus and the Agua Salud alphavirus.
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