Showing posts with label hamsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hamsters. Show all posts
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Lawsuit blames sick hamster for 3 deaths
A woman whose husband died after receiving a liver transplant claims a diseased hamster purchased at a pet store is to blame.
Nancy Magee, 51, of Whitman, Mass., is suing PetSmart for negligence.
Thomas J. Magee was one of three people who died after receiving organs donated by a woman who had contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCMV) from a hamster she bought at a PetSmart in Warwick, R.I., according to a law suit Magee has filed in federal court.
The organ donor later died of an unrelated stroke and the transplants were done by hospitals which had no knowledge of her disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Control Web site, lymphocytic choriomeningitis is a rodent-borne viral infectious disease with symptoms similar to meningitis.
Thomas Magee’s liver transplant was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in April 2005. Five days later, the suit says, he “was exhibiting high blood pressure and a fever.”
Weeks later he died and according to the suit, the virus was the cause of death. “The immediate cause of” Thomas Magee’s death was “determined to have been the dissemination of LCMV in the liver he received.”
Source: the Boston Channel
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Nancy Magee, 51, of Whitman, Mass., is suing PetSmart for negligence.
Thomas J. Magee was one of three people who died after receiving organs donated by a woman who had contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCMV) from a hamster she bought at a PetSmart in Warwick, R.I., according to a law suit Magee has filed in federal court.
The organ donor later died of an unrelated stroke and the transplants were done by hospitals which had no knowledge of her disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Control Web site, lymphocytic choriomeningitis is a rodent-borne viral infectious disease with symptoms similar to meningitis.
Thomas Magee’s liver transplant was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in April 2005. Five days later, the suit says, he “was exhibiting high blood pressure and a fever.”
Weeks later he died and according to the suit, the virus was the cause of death. “The immediate cause of” Thomas Magee’s death was “determined to have been the dissemination of LCMV in the liver he received.”
Source: the Boston Channel
Monday, March 17, 2008
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Video: Ultimate Cheerios Hamster
Answers the question you've long been wondering about: How many Cheerios can a hamster fit in her mouth?
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Saturday, April 14, 2007
Video: Hamster and broccoli
Mocha the hamster enjoys broccoli for the first time.
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