Researcher may have contracted virus carried by monkeys
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
It's the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities. At the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, last year, a newly identified form of virus devastated a monkey colony and sickened a researcher, who likely carried it outside the facility, officials said.