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This episode points to something very curious in the fictional Futurama universe Adenoviridae. Zoiberg for some illogical reason (lacking human DNA) also catches the human virus (unless Zoiberg added some human organs inside himself to the redundant grab-bag of undigested alien organs he already contains and those organs are causing Zoiberg's illness). Morbo, the television host-monster also catches the adenovirus (although it could also be an Influenza variant). In order for Morbo to catch a human virus, he would require human DNA and could just be a deliberately DNA-modded reshaped human pretending to be a alien monster along with his DNA-reshaped fake-monster wife. The guinea pig can indeed catch a variant of the adenovirus, known as the guinea pig adenovirus (GPAdV). Note that adenoviridae have documented cross-species transmission vectors.

Cross-Species Transmission of a Novel Adenovirus Associated with a Fulminant Pneumonia Outbreak in a New World Monkey Colony
Published: July 14, 2011 — Eunice C. Chen, Shigeo Yagi, Kristi R. Kelly, Sally P. Mendoza, Nicole Maninger, Ann Rosenthal, Abigail Spinner, Karen L. Bales, David P. Schnurr, Nicholas W. Lerche, Charles Y. Chiu
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1002155 96.36.27.95 (talk) 02:26, 9 January 2012 (UTC) Gridlock[reply]