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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">... maybe worth reiterating:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The AIBS-link Andy posted refers to
fresh material or samples that are retrieved from non-fixed
specimens potentially containing <u>active</u> virus material.
Import & export of fresh, non-fixed animal material has been
monitored closely for long time and work with such material is
strictly regulated not only under veterinarian law. <span
class="html-italic">Fresh material (e.g of bats) may be shipped
under UN 3373 Biological Material category B, but such
consignments usually are strongly regulated especially in
international air transportation </span><span
class="html-italic"><span class="html-italic">(cf. see WHO
Guidelines
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/WHO_CDS_EPR_2007_2.pdf">https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/WHO_CDS_EPR_2007_2.pdf</a>
and respective IATA / Carrier regulations such as FedEx, TNT,
UPS, etc.)</span>. </span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Besides this, in our collections we can
find <u>inactive</u> virus material, which may be sequenced, but
that does not necessarily poses a health risk as the recent
finding of anthrax blood sample in our herbarium demonstrates:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/2/298">https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/2/298</a>. While nobody knows why and
how this sample got into our Botany Collection, it is the oldest
known sample of <span class="html-italic"><i>Bacillus anthracis</i>
that has been isolated worldwide so far; even though the virus
was no longer active, the full genome could be sequenced.</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span class="html-italic">Similarly, <i>Yersinia
pestis</i> strains were isolated from medieval skeletons in
our anthropology collections
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12154-0">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12154-0</a>.</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span class="html-italic"><u>Inactivated
</u>virus material poses no health risk, but can be commonly
encountered in our collections</span><span class="html-italic"><span
class="html-italic">, e.g bird flue virus strains in
ornithological collections</span>. Such specimens surely are
important (yet often unrecognised) specimens for science, even
though the associated strains or residual microbes are not in
our strict research focus. However, this underlines the
importance of (our) collections and why it is wise maintaining
them (see finding of > 60 year old HIV samples </span><span
class="html-italic">literally "unearthed" from an abandoned
collections of blood samples in a hospital in Kinshasa, DRC
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081001/full/news.2008.1143.html">https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081001/full/news.2008.1143.html</a>)</span><span
class="html-italic">.</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span class="html-italic">No additional
bans or quarantine - but when shipped, you need to be able to
demonstrate that the material poses no health risk and complies
with "safe treatment", e.g. through proper description of the
fixation methods in your shipping documents accompanying your
parcel. </span><span class="html-italic"><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span class="html-italic">All the best</span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span class="html-italic">Dirk<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.04.2020 um 17:19 schrieb Bentley,
Andrew Charles:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know that a lot of museums have been
posting on NHCOLL-L that they have suspended all loan traffic
due to COVID-19. Reliability of delivery is obviously of
major importance for valuable specimens and this cannot be
guaranteed at this plus most museums are closed and there is
no one to process loans.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, I recently saw a message from USFWS
urging restrictions on esearch on bats to try and prevent the
spread of COVID-19 TO US bats and thereby spawning a new
pandemic with a mutated form of coronavirus.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Ichthyology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of
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66045-7561<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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864-3863<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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864-5335 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color:blue">abentley@ku.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu"><nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu></a> on behalf of
Elizabeth Merritt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:emerritt@aam-us.org"><emerritt@aam-us.org></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 7:28 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">"nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu"</a>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Nhcoll-l] Inquiring about COVID and
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Alliance is compiling a list of
collections-related COVID issues, and I hope you can help me
add the issues relevant to natural history specimens. Has
anyone been discussing the current or future impact of COVID
on shipment and intake of specimens? E.g., bans on shipment
of some specimens (based on taxa, locality) as we learn more
about what species can be vectors for coronavirus;
recommendations for quarantine or treatment of some incoming
specimens; need for research to inform these decisions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for any information you can
provide.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Elizabeth Merritt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vice President, Strategic Foresight and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Founding Director, Center for the Future of
Museums<o:p></o:p></p>
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