Don't count your (dead) chickens yet.... the jury's still out on SARS's exact nature/origin:
nytimes.com
Excerpt:
Using electron microscopes, two laboratories in Germany and a third in Hong Kong reported finding particles that seem to belong to a large family of viruses, paramyxoviridae, that includes the viruses that cause croup, respiratory disease, measles, mumps and other ailments.
Still, Dr. Klaus Stöhr, a virologist and epidemiologist who is leading the health organization's scientific team investigating the illness, said that none of those viruses had caused a disease like the one under investigation, which doctors are calling severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Instead, the findings suggest that the virus might be a hitherto unknown member of the paramyxoviridae family.
Tests seem to have ruled out two recently discovered members of the family, the Nipah virus and the Hendra virus, Dr. Stöhr said.
Dr. James M. Hughes, the director of the center for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, urged people not to draw firm conclusions from the findings. Federal health officials are not yet ready to accept the paramyxoviridiae as the final explanation, Dr. Hughes said.
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