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A Hunter's Hallucination?

Caption: No, it's not a hallucination. It's a deer mouse, doused with fluorescent green powder, as part of a University of Utah study aimed at learning more about how deadly hantavirus is transmitted among mice and ultimately to humans. Mice colored with harmless pink, green, yellow, orange and blue powders transmitted some of colors to mice with whom they fought or mated. That allowed the Utah biologists to learn that bigger, older mice are most likely to spread hantavirus.

Credit: Denise Dearing, University of Utah

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