SARS germ detective work
As the world races to nail down the causative agent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), no one is firmly nodding at any of the three, possibly four, leading hypotheses. Is the culprit a paramyxovirus subtype called human metapneumovirus (hMPV), as Health Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg proposes? The viruses of the paramyxoviridae family […]