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October 14, 2014 Marina Galperina

In a groundbreaking local study, scientists at Columbia University have conducted a survey of viruses carried by the rats of Manhattan. They tested the feces, urine, blood and tissue samples of 133 rodents. What they found was “shocking and surprising” even to pathogen experts. Not only did the rats carry scores of known food-borne illnesses (like […]

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