[Domestic Church]

"It could be that this particular virus has an enzyme that recognizes and incorporates other viral nucleic acid and incorporates the alien viral nucleic acid with it's own."

satellite nucleic acids....someone else on FR at the very begining of this outbreak brought that possibility up.

[realpatriot71]

It would be a great survival mechanism, especially for this type of intracellular parasite. It's complete speculation fo course, but it could explain why the virus seems to be mutating so fast, and how some people with SARS in Canada don't seems to have a detectable level of (original) virus