AdvertisementA Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To HumansFebruary 25, 2017Michaeleen DoucleffJane GreenhalghfacebookEmailToday Dr. Kaw Bing Chua is a scientist at Temasek Life Sciences in Singapore. When he discovered the Nipah virus, he was a graduate student at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Sanjit Das for NPR)