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Elephant TB: Ringling Brothers vs PETA

By Scott Weese on April 13, 2011
Posted in Other animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is battling Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus because of Karen, an elephant with tuberculosis (TB). The animal rights group is claiming that the elephant poses a public health risk because she has TB, and it appears that their appeal had initially convinced…

Elephant-human transmission of tuberculosis

By Scott Weese on March 8, 2011
Posted in Other animals

You can probably tell from various posts that I’m a fan of the CDC’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. It’s a great journal containing interesting infectious disease reports about people and animals (it’s free too, which is a nice bonus). In addition to the ferret infection I wrote about, the last edition also has a…

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