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Tracking Animal Viruses with Ion Personal Genome Machine™

Visit http://www.iontorrent.com/ for more information. "Is it possible to weaponize bird flu?" -- Contagion A startling real-life scenario? Or Hollywood fantasy? It's becoming more evident that a lot of human diseases originate in wildlife and in the past 10 to 15 years some major epidemics that cause severe disease and death in humans have been traced back to wildlife. One of the things that's really important for us is being able to respond rapidly to any disease problem when they occur and what we need to do is get a better understanding of what causes viruses to switch host so we can prevent outbreaks from happening. San Diego Zoo Global is the first wildlife research center in the world to use the Ion Personal Genome Machine™. It's tremendously exciting for us; it just opens up a whole new world of capabilities. Disease is one of the key obstacles in conserving a wildlife species and PGM™ is very valuable in that it allows us a much greater capacity to study different types of pathogens like viruses, bacteria, and fungi that cause disease in our animals. San Diego Zoo Global is now using the PGM™ to sequence a pox virus that's killing endangered birds. As long as the host is healthy they're generally self limiting infections, but we've seen several cases now where these pox viruses have gone systemic, they've spread throughout the body and ended up killing some really valuable birds. We've lost a California condor, an Andean condor, and a Micronesian kingfisher for example; all of them highly endangered. So the question for us now is whether or not this represents a new strain of pox virus or whether or not this represents a problem in the host. Using the PGM™ San Diego Zoo Global will soon have its answers. Visit http://www.iontorrent.com/ for more information.