http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/16/anthrax.death.reut/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/16/world/main1898766.shtml

in the u.s. there have been cases of people contracting disease
from handling live animals...specifically rodents...with hanta virus.
some folks who have caught wild rodents to help feed animals
at wild life re-hab centers have died from exposure to virus.