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When we think of dangerous pets, we imagine pet lions, alligators or boa constrictors. But a pet prairie dog can be just as dangerous. A giant Gambian rat, imported to a pet store from Africa, infected prairie dogs for sale in the same store with Monkey Pox, a smallpox-like disease found only in Africa. People who handled the prairie dogs got the disease, which eventually infected 30 people. “This is a virus that we simply don’t have a lot of information about,” says Dr. Steve Ostroff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Linda Moulton Howe published on her website excerpts from a report about burns on a bedsheet given to her as evidence of an alleged alien abduction in Brazil, and talked about this on Dreamland. The scientist who made the report, Phyllis Budinger, does not feel that her opinion of the marks she analyzed was presented in a manner that represented it accurately. To read Budinger’s reportclick here.

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Last Sunday the Loch Ness monster was sighted three times in eight hours, which is how often it was sighted during the entire year of 2002. Two of the sightings were from the cruiser the Royal Scot and the third was by a fisherman.

The captain of the Royal Scot saw a fast-moving wake in the water at around 2 pm, but thinks he was the only person aboard to see it that time. “The loch situation at that time was flat calm?absolutely mirror glass,” he says. “It was travelling at 30 to 35 miles an hour. It was probably chasing salmon. It is some sort of fish-eating machine.”
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At least 3,240 civilians died in Iraq during the month of war, including 1,896 in Baghdad alone, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. The count is based on records from 60 of Iraq’s 124 hospitals from March 20 to April 20. However, many of the dead were not taken to hospitals, but were buried by their families or lost beneath the rubble of bombed buildings.
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