How to Powder a Mouse (IMAGE)
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University of Utah doctoral student Christy Clay holds a bag of pink fluorescent powder as she dusts a wild deer mouse with the bright color for a study that found a small proportion of the mice -- namely, the bigger, older ones -- have most of the contacts with other mice and thus are largely responsible for spreading hantavirus -- which kills about one-third of its human patients. Clay, now a biology faculty member at Westminster College, ran the study under the supervision of University of Utah biology Professor Denise Dearing.
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Denise Dearing, University of Utah.
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