Disease in laboratory animals interferes with biomedical research.1 Infectious agents often distort experimental results to such a degree that labs must increase the number of animals under investigation to compensate for statistical variability. Moreover, some rodent pathogens are hazardous to other lab animals and to the humans who study them.
This past October, in an effort not only to control infection in lab animals, but also to harmonize international standards for monitoring their health, Taconic
"IHMS combines two heralded standards for animal health monitoring: FELASA [Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations], long the European standard,...