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| | 12 Monkeys: What is SARS and Where Is It Going? |
 | | John Tam of the department of microbiology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong later confirmed detection of a paramyxovirus in local samples by electron microscopy, and subsequently with PCR, but it is still not clear if SARS can definitively be attributed to such a virus. |
 | | The Paramyxovirinae is a huge family also found in monkeys, cattle, pigs, dogs, mice, pigeons, and even seals, dolphins and rattlesnakes, and it is conceivable an animal form has "crossed over" into humans in South China and begun the present outbreak of SARS. |
 | | The past 25 years of increasing commercial exploitation of genetic engineering in both agriculture and medicine may have unleashed the potential for creating viruses and bacteria more virulent than nature's worst. |
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