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Monday, May 11, 2009

Man dies of brain inflammation caused by deer tick virus in N.Y. In what scientists say might be the first case of its kind, a new report details the story of a 62-year-old man in New York state who died last year of meningoencephalitis, apparently after being bitten by a deer tick infected with deer tick virus. Read complete story from the Yahoo News Guns on campus bill moves to La. House floor BATON ROUGE — Over the objections of university officials, including campus police, a House ...

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