Wouldn't it be wierd if the virus was a variant or mutant of the Canine Distemper Virus and the natural host was a dog? I remember about 15 years ago the virus mutated and killed a number of large cats all over the world, especially lions. If the survivors of this disease develop neurological signs I am going to vaccinate myself with CDV or measles. One can vaccinate a dog with human measles and protect it against Canine Distemper Virus since they are so closely related.
HONG KONG — Public sector health workers in Hong Kong are up in arms, claiming that they have unnecessarily been exposed to danger as the price to pay for the government trying desperately to allay the public's fears over the spread of an atypical pneumonia that has claimed at least nine lives world-wide.
In the face of a possible epidemic outbreak of what has been labeled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Hong Kong government is advising its medical staff to take no chances, while at the same time telling its citizens and the world that there is nothing to worry about.
Angry doctors and nurses gathered on Monday at the partly-closed Prince of Wales Hospital to voice their protest against the government's handling of the situation.
The president of the Public Doctors' Association, Dr Leung Ka-lau, has described the situation in Hong Kong as "red light", without giving further details. He criticized the government for misleading the public into believing that Hong Kong was in the "yellow light" stage.
Well Canine Parvovirus was a completely new disease, not merely a previously unrecognized one. I believe that it is a mutant of the cat distemper virus.
But wouldn't we see the terrible diarrhea?