[vetvetdoug]

Ebola reston had its biggest chance for a jump when the monkey colony in Reston, Virginia, became infected and the damn rhesus started dying like flies. They had to haul the dead monkeys out at night in white unmarked vans and the facility was right across the street from a Wendy's and a Burger King. Another outbreak occurred in the monkey's in the valley colony in Texas. I don't like working with monkeys, they share too many diseases in common with us. What is a fever blister to them is a death sentence to us.

[Judith Anne]

Just read on a Drudge link that Ontario has had the 9th death from SARS...135 cases, only 35 have "gotten well." Grim news.

[exDemMom]

I don't like working with monkeys, they share too many diseases in common with us. What is a fever blister to them is a death sentence to us.

Is that a type of herpes virus? When I started grad. school, a technician in one of the labs I worked at for a few weeks told me of a researcher in Florida who contracted a lethal herpes virus infection from a monkey while it was undergoing surgery. The moral of the tech's story was to be especially careful when working with monkey cells. I still work with them, and they are handled as biohazards, as are the human cells.

[spetznaz]

They had to haul the dead monkeys out at night in white unmarked vans and the facility was right across the street from a Wendy's and a Burger King.

If people knew some of the stuff that occurs furtively they would probably faint out of fright! Sometimes being oblivious is a good thing!