To: InShanghai
I recall reading it and the link on that rat coronavirus. It had high morbidity and no mortality in rats...but it reduced fertility in them. I remember commenting about the potential(possible/probable - you pick) use for population control.It also affected the lacrymal glands. I remember the prefixes adeno and lacrym in the lengthy name and maybe the virus name began with an R.
Didn't someone recently post an article about the swollen & red eyes of a Vietnamese nurse survivor?
104 posted on
04/22/2003 11:02:00 AM PDT by
Domestic Church
(AMDG...get ready to wind back the clock a century or so)
To: Domestic Church; vetvetdoug
It's a bit misleading to say that
SDA in rats has a low mortality rate. While technically that's true (the disease itself kills very few rats,) many rats who contract the disease outside a sterile lab setting die from secondary infections that the SDA makes them vulnerable to.
To: Domestic Church
but it reduced fertility in them....it could have started from an attempt of China experimenting for a way to reduce it's population!
127 posted on
04/22/2003 12:37:40 PM PDT by
GrandMoM
("Vengeance is Mine , I will repay," says the Lord.)
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