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Russian doctors who wrote the first comprehensive reports on the disease -after a 1913 outbreak in Vladivostok -suspected a rodent-borne virus, but neither they nor later researchers were ever able to isolate the culprit. Lee himself made little progress until 1971, when a member of his team assigned to catch rodents for research was suddenly felled by hemorrhagic fever. The lab was immediately quarantined and work interrupted for several months, but the incident made Lee even more certain that the carrier was indeed a rodent. During seven years, the research team collected more than 2,400 mice and other...
There was more to Precious, of course, than vaps. The rodent was an emblem of a lifestyle, a get-married, settle-down, buy-a-house routine that seemingly afflicted everyone in Danvers as soon as high school closed its doors on them. Bereft of such designs, I had difficulty relating to people who would want the beast yapping underfoot...
...little individual rights meant to those honorable and dedicated public servants in the FBI. The barnyard cat takes similar care with the rights of the rodent it pursues through the fields...
...policy. After all, no Los Angeles coyote has been known to have attacked a human, while there were 52,000 dog-bite cases in the city last year. Says Dennis Kroeplin, the San Fernando Valley wildlife control officer: "We tell people the coyotes are very beneficial. They keep the rodent population under control." Besides, he adds, "the coyote is part of the West...
...Rodent Enriched. The Department of Agriculture has much to answer for. According to a report written by the department's Office of Audit in 1973 and made public last week, the department's Grain Division once held back a plan to determine uniformity in export shiploads because of the objections of a single trade organization, whose members included large exporting companies. In addition, the report said grain inspectors often failed to notify the Food and Drug Administration of "deleterious substances" in grain destined for human consumption. Among them: poisonous mercury-treated kernels, rodent excreta and insect-damaged kernels...