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.
> >
> >
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