Re: question:

["Charter" <charter@charter-terminal.com>]

It's a little frustrating that if there ARE any ornamental fish 
epidemiologists out there, they don't seem to be sharing the information 
with the rest of us.  At the time of The Plague I did some research and 
found a lot of sources that basically said "We know that fish viruses exist, 
but we don't really know anything about them." 

I guess the good news is that, from an evolutionary perspective, with a 
mortality rate of 70-80%, we can expect that The Plague will burn itself out 
pretty quickly.  Usually, the higher the mortality rate, the more isolated 
the incidence - like the way an epidemic of hemhorragic fever will wipe out 
an entire village, then collapse without spreading very far.  (I read "The 
Hot Zone"!  I know these things!  :) 

Hopefully Fish Plague 2001 won't return for a very long time... 


Kathy Olson writes: 

> Interesting huh?  Sounds like it wasn't isolated to just the portland 
> fish, people that had no fish from Portland got it too.  Erika then sent 
> me this post.  Sounds like it came through multiple places. 
>
> Kathy 
>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:17:43 -0400
> From: Charter <charter@charter-terminal.com>
> To: erik@thekrib.com
> Cc: kathy@thekrib.com
> Subject: question: (fwd) 
>
> Forwarded text from an Atlanta fishkeeper.  Sound familiar!?  Freaky, huh?  
>
> > I had several [M. praecox] many months ago in the 125, but had some kind 
> > of sickness that wiped out 75% of my fish. He was the sole survivor of 
> > several of them. The old "hadn't had a death for a long time and didn't 
> > use a quarantine tank" thing.
>  
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