Repost re: possible reservoir for Ebola/Marburg

[Ed Rybicki]

> From:          petermsull at aol.com (PeterMSull)
> Subject:       Repost re: possible reservoir for Ebola/Marburg

> Forgive me for posting someone else's thoughts/writings on an important
> subject, but I believe the ideas put forth by Walter Lundby a few months
> back ( I save my sessions in this group for reference ) to be thought
> provoking at least. 
...
> Proposal:   the reservoir for the Marburg and Ebola Reston viruses might
> not
> be  in a living being but in a clay, shale or petrified wood deposit.
> 6) As stated by Richard Preston in his book these viruses don't behave
> like 
>    parasites rather they behave like hunters. 
...> 
7) Richard Preston when describing the macaque monkeys with the initial

In the final analysis, who CARES what Richard Preston said!!!!  He is 
NOT a virologist; he is a journalist, and from the tone of his 
writing, deeply into unscientific statements and sensationalism!!!  
DON'T go blindly quoting someone who says the "virus is like a 
hunter..".  What unmitigated crap!  It kills PEOPLE rather nastily, 
and as we don't know what it's other host(s) is (are), we don't know 
but that it might be the most innocuous thing around in it (them).

 
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