Sabia virus

Disappearance of predators may also imbalance the equilibrium, and the problem scales up, such as the disappearance of foxes, predators of the deer mouse, which has allowed spreading of the hantavirus in the US, carried by mice (Levins 1993). Similarly, Sabia virus has emerged in Brazil, Guaranito virus in Venezuela (Lisieux 1994), machupo virus in Bolivia, and Junin fever in Argentine (Garrett 1994). In contrast, in a robust ecosystem, elimination of a predator provides space for another predator, such as in the disappearance of the coyote, which has opened the control of field mice to snakes and owls. When both predator and prey are endangered, it may occur that the prey develops resistance. This is taken into account in Volterra s equation (Ehrlich 1986). 

Ryder, R. W, Gandsman, E. J. (1995). Laboratory-acquired Sabia virus infection. New England Journal of Medicine, 333, 1716. 

Barry, Michael, M.D., Brief Report Treatment of a Laboratory-Acquired Sabia Virus Infection, New England Journal of Medicine, August 1995. 

Laboratory verification is essential but potentially extremely hazardous. In 1994, a Yale virologist working with Sabia, a Brazilian HF virus, accidentally contracted the disease, and fortunately survived (Ryder Gands-man, 1995). Clinical microbiology laboratories and pub-... 

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