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Current Event: Local On Thursday afternoon, just a day before this article was published, a missing game hunter from Eagle was found alive. His name is Arnold Dowdy, and when he went missing on Tuesday the original plan was that he and his partner would split up while tracking and then meet up later at predetermined destination. While his hunting partner made it back to camp, Dowdy didn’t. The missing hunter spent two nights out in the wilderness, both of which dropped to below freezing temperatures. Between twelve and fifteen searchers combed the land north of Idaho City, and eventually found him about five miles from where he was last seen. He suffered from dehydration and some exposure to the cold nights and had to be taken by helicopter to a Boise hospital, but is still alive. This really serves as a warning to other hunters, hikers, …show more content…

This was admitted to on Thursday, just the day prior to the writing of this article. Spot checks done in two laboratories led to concerns about correct shipment and containment of organisms. This resulted in similar checks in several other labs and eventually to the suspension of production, handling and shipping of these viruses across nine laboratories. However, what no one knew until Thursday was that the Bubonic plague was among the organisms being tested and possibly incorrectly handled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) had found several concerns about the shipment of these organisms, but at the moment there is nothing to suggest that the public or workers in these labs are at risk. The Army claims that the black plague was not a fully virulent strain, though that is still being confirmed by the CDC. They also state that the virus was immediately and properly contained, though further investigation is

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