Plague kills monkey at Denver Zoo


	Plague kills monkey at Denver Zoo

zephyr1

5-23-2007 6:46 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ac82e1f-ea5f-499d-b0dd-b726a87ffb02/7C50AB58-10E5-4202-8E1E-50B1602AA6B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6681451.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6681451.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6681451.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/0826684B-B9F9-4847-A746-D0AE4322E831" alt="Capuchin monkey - file photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6681451.stm"><FONT size="2"><B>Officials at Denver Zoo in the US state of Colorado are taking precautions to avoid an outbreak of plague after a monkey at the zoo died of the disease.</B>
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<FONT size="2">The zoo's 17 remaining capuchin monkeys have been put into an isolated cage and are being treated with antibiotics.
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<FONT size="2">Zoo officials suspect the monkey caught the disease from the carcass of an infected squirrel it may have eaten.
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<FONT size="2">Several squirrels and a rabbit have been found dead of the disease in recent weeks near the zoo.
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<FONT size="2">Veterinarians say there is little risk of the plague spreading to humans but visitors are being warned to avoid squirrels and rabbits.
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<FONT size="2">None of the zoo's other monkeys or animals have shown symptoms of the plague.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6681451.stm"><P><FONT size="2">The disease is normally found in some wild animals in Colorado during the spring, but usually in rural areas.
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<FONT size="2">"We see it every year in wild rodents," said John Pape, an epidemiologist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7C50AB58-10E5-4202-8E1E-50B1602AA6B0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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