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Old 06-20-2007, 07:59 PM
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Default 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).
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