The treatment may be working better in people than it did in animals, she said, because the adeno associated virus is a human virus and may be more active in its natural host.
So in this specific instance we know it's a human virus that can spread.
Dr. Butler-Jones: Well they could, that's why on this farm, because it's a human virus, so the difference, what you have to think about this virus which is essentially a human virus spreading from person to person that can in this case we've shown, in fact a herd of pigs.
Dr. Evans: I would just add to that, thank you for the question again, I would just add to that, that David indicated at this point an time the issue of being a human virus having been introduced to the pigs and the characterization of this virus shows that it is still that virus.
It's in a pig so if it came back, if some other human handled that pig while it was ill, or was, droplets got them in their mouth or eyes then potentially that person could infected from that pig with this virus which is a human virus.
Further investigation of this virus may reveal whether the virus is a human virus or a virus infecting bacteria.
Also tested was a human virus isolated in 2004, A/Thailand/MK2/2004, which resulted in the death of 2/10 khaki Campbell ducks.
The fact that EB virus was thought from the outset to be a human tumour virus was no doubt responsible for the large number of laboratories in which it has been studied.
If and when H5N1 virus adapts into a strain that is contagious among humans, it will be a human influenza virus.
Despite the fact that XMRV is not a human virus circulating in humans, it is an infectious virus.
