“They even bled my horses, and my dogs and
cats,” the owner of the farm said. “They got to looking at me, and I said, ‘I already gave.’ ”
The scientists have been trying to find out how this farmer and another unfortunate Missouri man contracted a severe viral disease — a new one, never seen before. It put both men in the hospital for more than a week with high fevers, diarrhea, nausea, muscle pain, low blood cell counts and liver abnormalities.