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Dr. Mims initiated the discussion by asking why a virus, such as visna, which has a conventional cycle of 1 to 2 days and which is detectable in the animal within a few weeks, causes the disease years later. This prompted Dr. Weiss to comment that in Germany the related disease, progressive pneumonia, is rather common, but that it rarely occurs in a coincidence with encephalitis. Therefore it is likely that the answer lies in the extraneural events and that in visna, as in progressive pneumonia, the extraneural infection proceeds at a relatively rapid pace, and under certain circumstances it may affect the central nervous system and produce a slow encephalitis.
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ter Meulen, V., Katz, M. (1977). Discussion/Chapter 3. In: ter Meulen, V., Katz, M. (eds) Slow Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9883-0_6
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