The preliminary diagnosis was acute kidney failure, but after Meimei was stabilized and brought back to the center, further tests showed she was infected with a highly dangerous hantavirus (spread by rats, usually infecting only humans).
依病情初步判斷，「妹妹」是罹患了急性腎衰竭，病情趨穩並取得飼主同意後，「妹妹」被接回收容中心，經過詳細體檢，發現牠竟是全世界首例感染高危險性漢他病毒（以鼠類為病媒，通常只傳染給人類）的紅毛猩猩。