Civil war within rescue groups: Primarily Primates and Colorado Horse Rescue

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

by Merritt Clifton and Marcia King

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS; GOLDEN and ARVADA, COLORADO––Bitterly

contested transitions of leadership may be finalized this month at Primarily Primates and

Colorado Horse Rescue. On September 13, Texas assistant attorney general John Vinson is

scheduled to ask the 224th Judicial District Court in San Antonio to remove Primarily Primates

founder and longtime animal caretaker Wallace Swett from any position of authority within the

Rabies victim wasn’t bitten; GIRL NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT HER––DEATH DEMONSTRATES RISK TO RESCUERS

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, and

MAMMOTH LAKES, California––The July 14 death of

an 11-year-old girl from rabies and a series of human deaths

from a rodent-borne hantavirus send a heads-up message to

animal rescuers and health care providers everywhere:

zoonosis, or animal diseases passed to people, can hit any-

one at any time. And the symptoms can go unrecognized.

Kelly Aherndt, an athletic would-be veterinarian,

kept a horse and a coop of pigeons; shared two cats, a col-

lie, and a variety of ducks and chickens with her brother

and two sisters; collected nature magazines; and spent

much of her time in the woods near her home in

Bloomingburg, New York, collecting fossils. Her parents

had warned her repeatedly to avoid raccoons and other

potentially rabid wildlife.