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Bad Guy RodentPro- Zoonotic disease warning

They are not mentioned by name but worth a read for the skeptical:

http://www.farmworldonline.com/news/NewsArticle.asp?newsid=14991

There are many of us here who work at places (zoos, etc...) who were contacted by CDC and local health departments about this. I cannot post those work emails or info unfortunately but I can confirm that the LCMV issue at Rodent Pro is real though probably not a threat to any healthy people or reptiles.
 
oh wow - story states that out of 52 workers 13 of the facility’s employees were positive for LCM, nine reported that there were ill and six sought medical care.

She sampled a total of 1,820 mice and rats - 399 rats tested all of which were negative and 1,491 mice, 296 of which tested positive. There was an infection rate in the mice of 21 percent, determined Lovejoy.
She quickly wrote a quarantine for each building, putting a halt on sales, production and packaging.
 
I work at a zoo, and we were contacted about the issue with rodent pro. Is that still anonymous?

I don't know how to edit posts or i would remove my "Anonymous third party quotations".


I can't post private work emails so hope the above satisfies the forum police.
 
They are not responding for legal reasons. Depending on the management's knowledge of the situation and how they handled it along with the resulting injuries not only could they be liable civilly, they could be be criminally liable. This has been rumored for a few weeks, I'm sure they have sought legal counsel and have been advised to say nothing.

We use Mice Direct and FeederSource.com (associated with Mice Direct). A few years ago I got an email from Mice Direct stating some shipments had gone out with something like salmonela (I don't remember) and they replaced all of those shipments. They also posted this information on their site. I don't think the issue was as severe as RodentPro's but RP can't claim there was no past protocal to look at in such a situation.
 
Thanks for posting that link, Erik. That would answer my general questions relative to any connection between the CDC and any health agency and public awareness.
 
Hmm well crap! I have a BIG order from RodentPro arriving TOMORROW! No mention of any of this at any time during the transaction... AWESOME!
 
Sandboamorphs said:
They are not responding for legal reasons.
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Sometimes, one can be more liable if one does not disclose. Whether this virus can survive freezing might be very important both to them and to the health of those who have received any contaminated shipments.
 
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/266689903396451/?bookmark_t=group

I was working on finding this information out a week ago, in any case the person I spoke to that would verify that the event had happened was Doug Metcalf at Indiana's Health department, he works in the animal portion.

He very clearly told me that both Rodent Pro and Mouse House were clear to repopulate.

I was told by Mr. Metcalf that this would hit the news last week, I haven't noticed it just yet. In any case there are obviously still investigations going on.

Maurice Pudlo
 
*head scratch* Erik said that he and others were contacted by the CDC about this. Pretty much exactly what the OP said. A statement without proof maybe, but I'm honestly not seeing any quotations at all. It's about himself right?

*back on-topic* Thanks for posting that article, it was informative. I knew there was going to be serious losses for them, but I didn't realize how big the clean-up really was. I'm glad they're taking it seriously and putting so much into it, but I still feel that customers should have been warned.

I sincerely hope that they managed to completely eliminate it, but I wonder how often their new stock is being tested... Also like Lucille, I think there's some questions they should answer. A statement of sorts would be nice.
 
~Just Curious~ said:
I still feel that customers should have been warned.
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How many people will order now, knowing that the info was not disclosed? Will some of them worry that if the problem was not completely eradicated, they won't be informed?
 
Lucille said:
How many people will order now, knowing that the info was not disclosed? Will some of them worry that if the problem was not completely eradicated, they won't be informed?
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Well I made an order last week, just found out about this about 20 minutes ago...my shipment was supposed to arrive tomorrow. I have spent the last 20 minutes on the phone with fedex getting the shipment stopped and returned to rodent pro. I refuse to put myself, I work in a large veterinary hospital with a lot of immune suppressed animals...this could have had a terrible outcome.

I remember thinking to myself, wow they really got that order out a lot faster than the last time....I wonder why!

Jason Wright
 
~Just Curious~ said:
*head scratch* Erik said that he and others were contacted by the CDC about this. Pretty much exactly what the OP said. A statement without proof maybe, but I'm honestly not seeing any quotations at all. It's about himself right?
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Yes it was about me. Yeah I am confused too but still got an infraction. I guess I better let it go......:shrug01:
 
Until there is pure 100% undeniable and credible proof, there is no reason for anybody to freak out. For now, this is all hearsay, and unsubstantiated claims.
 
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