Anteaters get the flu


	Anteaters get the flu

dmccluredvm

6-3-2009 3:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57de19f0-0964-412e-9ecf-34077a67c84d/7F6F7FCA-809E-4C95-8F82-35C15F06B21E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg"><DIV id="hn-headline">Anteaters caught (human) H1N1 flu in zoo outbreak, expanding range of wily virus</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg"><P>Humans, horses, dogs, whales, seals, birds, cats, ferrets and even raccoons are known to be susceptible to the tiny eight-gene viruses. Researchers in Tennessee have now added giant anteaters to that list.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg"><P>"Who would have thunk it?" senior author Dr. Melissa Kennedy says with a laugh. "We were pretty amazed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg"><P>The February 2007 outbreak, involving 11 adult giant anteaters at Tennessee's Nashville zoo, is reported in an article that will be published in the July issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. All the anteaters survived the illness.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ibkJV2rAlWcOs7VWzAoTYxQGfWvg"><P>Beyond the initial "Even anteaters?" reaction, some who study influenza profess to be less taken aback than Kennedy and her co-authors. The virus is so unpredictable, scientists who work in the field expect the unexpected.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F6F7FCA-809E-4C95-8F82-35C15F06B21E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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