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...wrong. As a veterinarian, I firmly believe that the benefits of pet ownership far outweigh the risks. But if you're going to keep animals, you need to use common sense and follow some basic rules of hygiene...
High-risk groups--small children, the elderly, pregnant women and the immunocompromised--require special precautions. Ask your doctor, and your veterinarian...
Capuzzi is a Philadelphia area--based veterinarian...
...Hwang's dedication to humans is something of a mid-career switch. A trained veterinarian, Hwang teamed up with gynecologist Dr. Moon Shin Yong, a gynecologist and leading fertility expert, after Dolly the sheep was cloned in Scotland in 1996. Part of the work was aimed at creating better livestock: in 1999 they cloned a high-yielding dairy cow in Korea, and last December they announced the successful cloning of a cow resistant to mad-cow disease. But they were also looking at how cloning could benefit humans. Their team has cloned miniature pigs whose organs could potentially be used...
...sparse is information on devils in the wild that scientists at the state-run Animal Health Laboratory in Launceston are trying to figure out just what a healthy devil should look like. Performing an autopsy on a diseased devil, veterinarian Robyn Sharpe painstakingly cuts out pieces of tissue. ?We have to take everything because we know so little about devils,? she says. The animals ?have been like seagulls,? says her pathologist colleague Richmond Loh, ?so common that no one?s really studied them.? Now Loh and others are racing to determine whether the disease is caused by a virus...