oops, this was a reply to Erika's reply about Dave, not the OTHER message about the fish diseases. Oh well, stayed up until 2 am with the Portland gang last night, still a little tired. Need caffeine, perhaps I should start drinking that again. :) Kathy On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Kathy Olson wrote: > Yes, Dave sounded really good when I talked with him. > > Like I said, I wasn't saying anything, but when it gets posted to a group > and I have outside people asking, I thought I should let the board know > before someone else told them. > > Kathy > > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Charter wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > > multipart/mixed > > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > > text/html > > > --- > > > ------------------ > > > To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com > > > with "unsubscribe gsas-board" in the body of the message. > > > Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board > > > When asked, log in as username is "gsas-board", and password > > > "gsas-bored". > > > > > > > ------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com > > with "unsubscribe gsas-board" in the body of the message. > > Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board > > When asked, log in as username is "gsas-board", and password "gsas-bored". > > > > ------------------ > To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com > with "unsubscribe gsas-board" in the body of the message. > Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board > When asked, log in as username is "gsas-board", and password "gsas-bored". > ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe gsas-board" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board When asked, log in as username is "gsas-board", and password "gsas-bored".