ApocaDocs: Investigating Pigs for Ebola

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Posted Fri Jan 23 2009: from SciDev.net:


	Investigating Pigs for Ebola http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1232734866 Veterinary experts are investigating how a form of the Ebola virus found in primates has been transmitted to pigs in the Philippines. Twenty-two international health and veterinary experts travelled to the island of Luzon in the Philippines last week (13 January) to investigate an outbreak of the Ebola Reston virus in pigs that occurred in 2008. It was the first time the virus had been seen outside primates, and its appearance in domestic livestock is unexpected and worrying, according to Pierre Rollin, an Ebola expert from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

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'Doc Michael says:

Good thing we're already pre-dosing our pigs with antibiotics! Why, I bet they're nearly immune!