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Original Source: Fatal Laboratory-Acquired Infection with an Attenuated Yersinia pestis Strain --- Chicago, Illinois, 2009.
On September 18, 2009, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) was notified by a local hospital of a suspected case of fatal laboratory-acquired infection with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. The patient, a researcher in a university laboratory, had been working along with other members of the laboratory group with a pigmentation-negative (pgm-) attenuated Y. pestis strain (KIM D27). The strain had not been known to have caused laboratory-acquired infections or human fatalities. Othe...
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Salmonella in humans Salmonella bacteria cause food poisioning, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. More than 2500 different strains of salmonella have been identified. Anyone can get salmo...
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Naked mole-rats may hold clues to pain relief
(University of Illinois at Chicago) Naked mole-rats evolved to thrive in an acidic environment that other mammals, including humans, would find intolerable. Researchers at the University of Illinois a...
Rare virus linked to rodents kills two in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, June 5 (Reuters) - Two people in Utah have died following exposure to hantavirus, a rare but deadly disease of the lungs spread by rodents, health officials said on Tuesday.
Rodents seem depressed from dim light at night, but it can be reversed
Chronic exposure to dim light at night can lead to depressive symptoms in rodents -- but these negative effects can be reversed simply by returning to a standard light-dark cycle, a new study suggests...
US park service was warned about Yosemite rodents
(AP)—The National Park Service was warned in 2010 to increase inspections for rodents in one of its most popular parks and prevent them from entering areas where people sleep, a report obtained Thur...
New findings on how naked mole-rats adapt to acidic environments
Naked mole-rats evolved to thrive in an acidic environment that other mammals, including humans, would find intolerable. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report new findings as to...
Rats! NYU Loses Rodents Used In Valuable Research
In an unexpected, but significant side effect from Hurricane Sandy, the NYU Langone Medical Center, which is located on the east side of midtown Manhattan, lost thousands of genetically altered rats a...
Links between rodents' environment, climate and leptospirosis infection
Leptospirosis is a water-related bacterial disease with a high incidence in Southeast Asia. People usually become infected through exposure to water contaminated by the urine of infected animals, main...
Illinois AG sues over refinery's alleged pollution
The state of Illinois is suing current and past owners of a southwestern Illinois refinery for allegedly polluting nearby groundwater.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/LHxgpc ) reports that...
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Occurrence of pathogens in wild rodents caught on Swedish pig and chicken farms.
SUMMARY A total of 207 wild rodents were caught on nine pig farms, five chicken farms and five non-farm locations in Sweden and surveyed for a selection of bacteria, parasites and viruses. Lawsonia in...
Volunteers Needed for Making an Impact on Public Groundwater Policy.
