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“If it was a bunyavirus or an arenavirus, we would have been lost for two to three years.”

These include viruses highly pathogenic to humans, such as influenza virus, arenaviruses and filoviruses, that have not previously been reported in fish or amphibians.

We continue to solicit antibodies against the other filoviruses and many arenaviruses, including Lassa, which causes hundreds of thousands of infections each year and thousands of deaths.

"We never thought we would find an arenavirus in a tick. These types of viruses are usually transmitted by rodents," she noted.

What they found surprised them: A type of virus, arenavirus, that appears to be a distant—and perhaps ancient—relative to the viruses that can cause Ebola and hemorrhagic fever in humans.