Baboon handler in intensive care.(News)

From: The Mercury (South Africa) | Date: August 25, 2006 | Copyright information

BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING

Cape Town: Laboratory tests have established that Jenni Trethowan, of Baboon Matters, has contracted cytomegalovirus (a member of the herpes family of viruses), but she is also being treated for suspected dieldrin poisoning.

It is thought Trethowan may have been exposed to dieldrin through the body fluids of three young baboons that she handled after they had been poisoned with the highly toxic, banned pesticide, but experts are not ce...

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