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Samw 06-20-2007 07:59 PM

What is the number 1 coral virus?
 
I wouldn't have guessed. hehe.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284920,00.html


Herpes outbreak
Rebecca Thurber, one of Rohwer’s postdoctoral researchers, also took pieces of coral and changed conditions such as nutrients, temperature and water pH, then cut up the coral and sequenced the DNA of the microbes that grew on their surface.
And what was the No. 1 disease affecting the corals? Herpes viruses.
“They dominate almost all the viruses that are present,” Thurber told LiveScience.
Herpes viruses are naturally found in many different animals (95 percent of humans carry some kind of herpes virus).

Der_Iron_Chef 06-20-2007 08:03 PM

Everyone have some Valtrex on hand, along with your Melafix and Lugol's. And then you'll realize..."that your corals can still enjoy life and take charge."


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