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Old 04-23-2007, 03:15 PM   #52
ladyknite
As I read thru these posts, the certainty of one thing remains constant. Fear and worry.
We all hoped that the release of the letter from UF-Jacobson would reveal that the majority of the population in the US was not infected and that we stood a shot in the dark against this virus. Instead what we got seemed to be depressing, to say the least.

Without the facts in tact to support the letter such as the answers to Wendy’s questions…….HOW DO WE NOT ASSUME that the deck may have been stacked with positive dragons, all from the same area or that pressure was not applied to the university to produce answers before they were ready. Why was a controlled test not performed?

There is obviously some variation in this virus. We see dragons that falter and die unless they are maintained by us, we see dragons with issues on and off, dragons that are healthy and dragons that are classic FTT. What makes some die and others appear healthy? If it’s a mutated form of the virus…….isn’t that important to know? Or should we wait another bunch of years until they all have the same strain to try to answer those questions?

Now let’s look at a legal point of view.
Under most laws stated, if a merchant sells an animal that is sick or faltering, that said merchant can be held legally and financially responsible (state laws also apply). However a merchant is defined as someone that breeds according to his facility. Not the guy down the road that sells off a clutch or two. Seems to me that it then becomes a buyer beware law with the exception of the large scale breeders.

In reading what is posted throughout all of these discussions, one becomes vaguely aware that if the general census becomes that the adenovirus is prevalent in all colonies across the US, that people have no moral or obligatory issue from this point forward. Does anyone see CONVENIENCE written all over that?