Circus elephants help spread drug-resistant TB

in Animal News on October 30, 2007

All the evidence indicates that for the last 14 years TB positive and TB infected elephants have been traveling the country and performing in closed arenas full of little kids holding cotton candy and squealing with delight. People with compromised immune systems and the elderly are circus patrons. It’s a family tradition in some homes to go to the circus when it’s in town.

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