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

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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.

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