The dean and party secretary of the animal medical school at Northeast Agricultural University,Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, have been removed from their positions due to agroup of staff and students being infected by a serious disease through the department'slaboratory, China Youth Daily reported Saturday.
Earlier this year, 27 students and one teacher were found as having been infected withbrucellosis, an infectious disease which can lead to incapacitation and permanent damage ofcentral nervous system. They were sent to a local hospital for treatment.
Wang Yongjie (not his real name), a senior student at the application technology department ofthe university, suffered from joint pain, fatigue, sweating and a high fever in January 2011. Thesymptoms were later diagnosed as brucellosis.
"It was all due to the university's negligence that we were infected," Wang said. Wang andanother 29 students did a sheep anatomy experiment in a lab of the animal medical departmenton Dec 19, 2010.
"The lab's equipment was in disarray and the whole environment was unsanitary, where weconducted the anatomy," Wang recalled.
Experts from Beijing Ditan Hospital said, "Brucellosis, mainly transmitted by touchinganimals, may injure the central nervous system and cause complications such ascerebromeningitis."
The university has said it will cover all the medical expenses of the 28 infected, as well as offercertain compensation packages.
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