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Nature. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2812-9

Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals.

Ruhugu virus and rustrela virus are the closest know relatives of rubella virus and have animal reservoirs (cyclops leaf-nosed bats and yellow-necked field mice respectively).