Re: Animal to animal to man / hepatitis
From: Firebird (Firebird_at_some.domain)
Date: 12/29/04
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Date: 29 Dec 2004 17:46:06 -0000
In article <20041229074257.06016.00001715@mb-m21.aol.com>
ironjustice@aol.comdoe (doe) wrote:
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> Virology. 2004 Dec 20;330(2):501-5. Related Articles, Links
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> Complete or near-complete nucleotide sequences of hepatitis E virus genome
> recovered from a wild boar, a deer, and four patients who ate the deer.
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> Takahashi K, Kitajima N, Abe N, Mishiro S.
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> Department of Medical Sciences, Toshiba General Hospital, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
> 140-8522, Japan.
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> Zoonosis has been implicated in hepatitis E virus (HEV) transmission. We
> examined wild boar living in a forest of Hyogo prefecture, Japan, and found HEV
> RNA in three of seven boars. A full-genome HEV isolate from one of them was
> revealed to be 99.7% identical to a previous isolate from a wild deer hunted in
> the same forest and to those from four patients who contracted hepatitis E
> after eating raw meat of the deer. These findings suggest an interspecies HEV
> transmission between boar and deer in their wild life, and that both animals
> might serve as an infection source for human beings as suggested previously.
>
> PMID: 15567444 [PubMed - in process]
WTF are *we*
You are not a *we*
You are a *them*
Just keep that in mind *Monkey Boi*
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