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cord-011813-lm105z6n	Imperiale, Michael J.	Recurring Themes	2020-07-08		.txt	text/plain	309	28	68	to ask whether mSphere would be interested in publishing a summary of a conference being held at that time in Singapore to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Nipah virus outbreak. Having attended a similar conference on Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases a couple of years earlier, I knew that the topics of discussion and the information presented at such a meeting are of interest and importance to the microbial sciences community. I therefore told Benhur that we were absolutely interested: the report from the Nipah@20 conference is published with this editorial (1). Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was beginning its journey from Wuhan, China to the rest of the world, and as of the time I am writing this, well over 10 million cases and half a million deaths have been reported. As the authors of the Nipah@20 conference summary note, the similarities in terms of what the world needs to respond to such emerging diseases are many.	./cache/cord-011813-lm105z6n.txt	./txt/cord-011813-lm105z6n.txt