Sludge Watch ==> Grand Canyon biologist and cougar died of plague

[Maureen Reilly]

ARIZONA: Grand Canyon biologist died of plague
17.nov.07
Associated Press

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-plague17nov17,1,3249517.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=5&cset=true

Phoenix -- Tests done by federal health officials have, according to this 
story, confirmed that a wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park 
died of the plague.

Eric York, 37, died Nov. 2 in his home at the Grand Canyon. He had done a 
necropsy on a mountain lion a few days earlier, and tests on the big cat 
show it too had died of the plague.
After suspecting plague in York's death, National Park Service officials 
began precautionary antibiotic treatment of nearly 50 people. None became 
ill.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that York had the 
identical strain of the bacterial disease as the dead cougar.