[vetvetdoug]

My bet is a Morbillivirus, similar to the one that surfaced in Australia. That one was called the Hendra virus and found to be harboured by the fruit bat. Some of these viruses are harboured by the most unusual animals that to them are not pathogenic but to another species is devastating.

[Mother Abigail]

Could be,

Of course I am still in the "bat as vector" crowd RE: Ebola

[Mother Abigail]

Monday March 17, 2003

The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring a patient in Albuquerque who has symptoms similar to a deadly pneumonia-like illness that has killed nine people in Asia.

The man, who recently returned to Albuquerque from a trip to Hong Kong, does not have a confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS.) However, the symptoms are similar enough that it has the CDC and the Department of Health concerned.