Friday, September 12, 2008

Animal lover dies from scratch after freeing rat.


From the UK Daily Mail:

Discovering a rat trapped in a wire bird feeder in her back garden animal lover Carol Colburn was swift to act.

The mother-of-three ignored the pleas of her husband to wear gloves and set about freeing the terrified animal.

But she paid for her act of kindness with her life.

The 56-year-old suffered scratches and cuts to her hands in the process of releasing the creature. Unknown to her she had contracted the rare - but deadly - Weil's disease.

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