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BBC: Officials in the mountainous northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh say they are struggling to control a severe form of monkey diarrhoea. Thousands of primates in the forested Himalayan slopes are affected. Officials say the disease has killed dozens and hundreds more remain ill with bleeding from their mouths, and rapid weight loss. A veterinary doctor treating them says they are being given bread smeared with honey and laced with antibiotics.Seattle Times obit: Dr. Walford alternated years of intensive laboratory research on mice with year long sabbaticals in which he walked across India in a loincloth measuring the rectal temperatures of holy men, traversing the African continent on foot, and living in Biosphere 2.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-06-10 |
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