AR-News: (US MT) Re: Heating malfunction kills RML research animals

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By JENNY JOHNSON Staff Reporter 


Scores of research animals at Rocky Mountain Laboratories died last weekend, 
setting back on-going research of fatal brain diseases such as chronic wasting 
disease, officials said in a statement released Thursday.

Nearly 90 animals were found dead Sunday morning after a heating malfunction 
caused the temperatures to climb up to 100 degrees in the animal holding 
facility on the Hamilton campus. A lab spokesperson said 13 squirrel monkeys and 74 
hamsters died from hyperthermia during the night.

The animals were part of research on transmissible spongiform 
encephalopathies - fatal brain diseases associated with the misshapen protein molecules, 
including chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, mad cow disease, scrapie in 
sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in humans. Seventeen of the squirrel monkeys 
and dozens of hamsters involved in the TSE research survived the night as did 
all of the 14 macaques monkeys, officials said. All of the animals remained in 
their cages, and officials said there was never any risk to RML staff or 
community members.






full story:

http://www.ravallinews.com/articles/2004/02/16/news/znews02.txt 

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