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Program with tiny budget makes huge difference for pets, owners
The teenager showed up in a panic on Thursday, cradling a wounded puppy in arms spattered with blood. A stray dog had attacked his 2-month-old pit bull on a walk near their South Los Angeles home. The city animal shelter nearby was the only place he...
Tags: Pets
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Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio
Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....
Tags: Preventative Medicine, AIDS, Science and Technology, Biotechnology, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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All revved up for a day at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
I've tumbled down another rabbit hole, wound up in Long Beach, which isn't a worst-case scenario, though close. The cars here all need mufflers, the young fans need more clothes. What kind of sordid little event is this? Indy car racing had always been...
Tags: Indianapolis 500, Auto Racing, Oriol Servia, NASCAR, Open-Wheel Racing
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Recipient of transplanted rabies-infected organ dies
A Maryland transplant recipient has died of rabies after receiving an infected organ from a donor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday. The CDC said that three other patients also received organs from the rabies-infected...
Tags: Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Charity helps foreign troops take Afghanistan pets home
KABUL, Afghanistan — She was just an ordinary brown mutt, a stray, but Pvt. Conrad Lewis loved her. Lewis, a British paratrooper in Afghanistan's Helmand province, adopted the dog and named her Pegasus. Everyone called her Peg. In his letters...Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Kabul (Afghanistan), Tourism and Leisure Industry, Afghanistan, United Kingdom
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Dogs euthanized after mauling 84-year-old woman in Jurupa Valley
L.A. NOWTwo dogs that severely mauled an 84-year-old woman in Riverside County Thursday were euthanized after the morning attack. The owner of the pit bulls, or pit bull mixes, signed them over to the county Department of Animal Services after officers...... -
Man dies of rabies from bat bite in Contra Costa County
L.A. NOWA 34-year-old man died in Switzerland over the summer from rabies contracted from a bat in Contra Costa County – the first death from rabies there in nearly 20 years, officials announced Friday.... -
Search ends for mountain lion that attacked camper
L.A. NOWAfter more than a week of hunting for an elusive mountain lion that attacked a camper in his sleeping bag in the Sierra foothills, the state Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday called off the search for the animal.... -
Two Palm Desert women bitten by coyotes in 10 days
L.A. NOWA 69-year-old Palm Desert woman was bitten by a coyote Sunday morning during an early morning walk, the second coyote attack in the area in 10 days. The woman, who lives in the Del Webb Sun City retirement community, was...... -
Rabid bat dropped off at police station prompts alert
L.A. NOWSan Bernardino County officials on Thursday night announced a possible rabies exposure alert after someone dropped off a live bat at the Chino Police Department.... -
Dead bat found in Riverside area; man exposed to rabies last week
L.A. NOWA dead bat was found Tuesday afternoon in a schoolyard in Riverside County, where a man and dog were exposed to rabies last week after handling dead bats.... -
Father arrested after hiding pit bull that bit daughter, 3
L.A. NOWMan arrested after hiding pit bull that bit his daughter....
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