Quarantine - How far away is far enough?

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Originally Posted by Deborah

For the people that have not been in this very long this story http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=220629 should be a reminder of why QT in the same room is not QT.

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Thanks. After reading that thread I have a friend do QT for me since his wife doesn't care for snakes but will grudgingly let him have one at a time. So he gets the new arrivals for 90 days before they come to my place.

oh, thanks all, that makes sense. an RI virus can of course be airborne. i didnt know there are reptile viruses that are so contagious and have such a high mortality rate. the virus in the story Deborah linked reminds me of Ebola or the spanish flu.

somehow i only had mites on my radar when i posted. i still dont think mites can become airborne, unless you launch them or glue tiny wings to them. they cannot even make silk threads. tiny spiders can fly with a long silk thread if there is some wind. but mites really seem to be limited to crawling and falling, and their eggs are too heavy to fly like dust.

but that doesnt seem to matter when there are scary viruses like that out there.