Launching an educational campaign to make those industries that breed the Bluetail Moonbeam aware of the limitations of the antibody test for the virus and offering these industries the opportunity to do follow-up tests on their own. Requiring each Bluetail Moonbeam sold to be tagged with a tag indicating their date of capture, running an antibody test on all with tags more than four weeks old, and removing any infected fish from the stock Quarantining each imported Bluetail Moonbeam in isolation for at least three weeks, then performing the antibody test on each, and allowing only the uninfected to move into industrial stocks.

Which of the following, if performed by the government, could logically be expected to overcome the problem with the plan to limit the spread of this virus in the Bluetail Moonbeam?Įstablishing a multi-million dollar grant to fund molecular biological research into either an inoculation or a cure for this viral infection. Thus, testing each Bluetail Moonbeam entering the country would still allow infected fish into the American stocks. Once the fish is isolated in captivity, shippers can eliminate all new sources of infection, but some might have been infected days or even hours before being caught. Catching and importing a live Bluetail Moonbeam takes 8-10 days. Biologists can establish the presence of the virus by an inexpensive antibody test unfortunately, after the initial infection, antibodies take four weeks to appear in the fish’s blood, and the test will find no results before then.

The Bluetail Moonbeam, an Asian freshwater fish, has been imported into the United States by companies who breed it for food, but recently, an infectious virus has been reducing industrial stocks.

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