[united1000]

Would you also add my name to your list, thank you.

[Mother Abigail]

done

[Mother Abigail]

The laboratory results continue to point the finger towards a member of the paramyxovirus family. In the above release from Health Canada, they have identified the virus as a human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a "newer" member of the paramyxovirus family.

One of the earlier descriptions of the hMPV (van den Hoogen BG, et al. A newly discovered human pneumovirus isolated from young children with respiratory tract disease. Nat Med 2001; 7(6): 719-24) was reported in ProMED-mail (Paramyxoviruses, new human pathogen - Netherlands 20010603.1094). All of these results are suggesting more and more that the paramxyovirus family may be the etiology of SARS. - M