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To: goldworldnet who wrote (712434)	11/10/2005 4:48:17 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Yes... but Nile virus?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (712434)	11/10/2005 11:03:21 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 769670

Gold, I'm no virus specialist (that's for sure), but one thing about virus's is that they're RNA instead of DNA based and that means they mutate. If you want a good read check out "The Hot Zone". It was written by one of the research doctors that worked for USAMRIID. He tried to find the source for a Ebola Virus outbreak in Central Africa. He also dealt with the Ebola (EBO-R) outbreak in a Reston Virginia monkey house where they imported monkeys for experimentation. Fortunately for us, EBO-R only infected monkeys. The scary thing is that there's virtually no visual difference between human and animal type ebolas when viewed under an electron microscope and EBO-R turned out to be airborne. This outbreak could have been really disastrous because it took USAMRIID days for scientist to isolate the virus. In the mean time the monkey house workers weren't quarantined, one was even in the hospital being operated on. If it had affected humans there's no telling how many would have died.