Health Officials Ban Prairie Dog Trade
From Times Wire Reports
State health officials ordered a ban on the sale, importation and display of prairie dogs after 14 people were sickened from exposure to the animals.
Health officials said the 12 people in Wisconsin who reported fever, coughs, rashes and swollen lymph nodes had recovered or were getting better. Two others were sickened in Illinois.
Wisconsin agriculture officials connected all 14 sicknesses to a single shipment of 30 of the burrowing rodents.
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