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Monday, Aug. 16, 2010

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MANHATTAN -- Four Kansas State University 1xbet online casino medicine students experienced a summer filled with disease and disaster -- and that's just what they wanted.

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Jodi Wright, Burrton, Tiffany Moses, Manhattan, both third-year veterinary medicine students, took the foreign animal disease practitioner's course at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa. They participated in interactive lecture sessions on foreign animal diseases that are a potential threat to the United States. Some of the speakers were webcasted from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. The 1xbet online casino also included various hands-on labs and a mock foreign animal disease outbreak that let them apply the proper measures to handle the emergency.

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