The Bluetail Moonbeam, endemic to the streams and rivers of Asia, is regularly imported into the United States by companies wishing to breed it for food  An infectious virus has been threatening Bluetail Moonbeam stocks in the United States  Even before a Bluetail Moonbeam develops any symptoms, biologists can establish the presence of the infection by an inexpensive test for antibodies in the fish' s blood  Yet, after the instance of infection, antibodies take about four weeks to appear in the fish' s blood, and the test will find no results before then  Catching a live Bluetail Moonbeam and shipping it to the United States takes a little more than a week  Once the Bluetail Moonbeam is in captivity, shippers can eliminate all new sources of infection, but unfortunately, some Bluetail Moonbeams might be infected days or even hours before being caught
Thus, even running the antibody test on each Bluetail Moonbeam entering the country would still allow infected fish into the American stocks
Funding research into either an inoculation or a cure for this viral infection.