Bats may be carriers of Ebola virus - Democratic Underground

Sufi Marmot

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Thu Dec-01-05 12:07 AM
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Bats may be carriers of Ebola virus

Again, per Yahoo:

"We find evidence of asymptomatic infection by Ebola virus in three species of fruit bat, indicating that these animals may be acting as a reservoir for this deadly virus," Eric Leroy and his colleagues said in a report in the science journal Nature.

Not at all suprising if this turns out to be true...

-SM

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JanusAscending

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Thu Dec-01-05 12:26 AM
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1. Odd that you mention this today!

I was listening to TV while on line today, and I heard someone mention that a bat flew out of a Christmas tree as it was being put in place. The tree came down from Canada. It was either the tree in front of the Whitehouse or the one at Rockefeller Center. The reporters mentioned that one year the tree came bundled from Canada and there was an owl still in it's nest.

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Tesha

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Fri Dec-02-05 08:28 AM
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6. Are you sure it didn't emerge from Bush's belfry? (NT)

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BJW

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Thu Dec-01-05 12:41 AM
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2. I've also heard a few bat-scare stories

I think this is more or less the background type fear and anxiety stories they use as filler to keep us anxious and afraid...

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WindRavenX

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Thu Dec-01-05 02:16 AM
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3. weren't bats also the resevoir species for SARS?

Interesting.

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mainegreen

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Thu Dec-01-05 08:06 AM
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4. Didn't the first recorded case of ebola occur to people who went in a cave

If so, the bat thing makes a whole lot of sense.

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Sufi Marmot

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Thu Dec-01-05 11:26 AM
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5. I think so...

Also, the earliest known patients for several Ebola outbreaks were workers in bat-infested cotton factories (per The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret).

-SM

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Tesha

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Fri Dec-02-05 08:29 AM
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7. I think you're conflating the "Marburg" story in "The Hot Zone". (NT)

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