31.   Federal officials were not involved for another month, and it was mid-October before federal veterinarians had correctly diagnosed the outbreak and began killing infected animals.

32.   For infected animals, the only outcome is incineration.

33.   He theorizes that the infection may have been passed along through cat food containing remnants of infected animals.

34.   Healthy animals get the disease through close contact with an infected animal or by drinking from the same water.

35.   HOW A TICK CAN MAKE YOU SICK Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete, or corkscrew-shaped bacterium, which ticks pick up by biting infected animals.

36.   Humans can get sick from handling products from infected animals, inhaling the spores from animal skins or eating undercooked contaminated meat.

37.   In rats, the first group of infected animals showed brain damage resembling the original Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

38.   Infected animals that are vaccinated would shed less virus.

39.   Insects become infected from animals and outbreaks occur periodically as the population of infected animals grows, according to The Merck Manual of Medical Information.

40.   Infected animals are generally killed, and their carcasses incinerated.