内容摘要：The biosecurity gets even tighter just a few miles away in Christiansburg, Virginia, where a new herd is being raised – pigs expected to supply organs for formal studies of animal-to-human transplantation as soon as next year.

The biosecurity gets even tighter just a few miles away in Christiansburg, Virginia, where a new herd is being raised – pigs expected to supply organs for formal studies of animal-to-human transplantation as soon as next year.

There are some 300 tombstones painted with classic Argentine canine names, like Negro and Coco, and strewn with photographs, handwritten notes and flowers.“Before, two months could go by without anyone being buried. Now, it’s at least once or twice a week,” said shelter manager Alicia Barreto, who still mourns her first rescue, a pup she found alive in a bag of dog carcasses thrown on the roadside in 2000.

That grisly image haunts her, she said. But she takes comfort in knowing that, when the time came 10 years later, she gave her “perrhijo,” Mariano, a dignified burial.“I told myself I would find him again,” she said at his marble tombstone. “At the moment of my death, or afterward, I’ll be reunited with him.”A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said.

The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said.A subsequent investigation that also involved the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health determined the patient got rabies from the donated organ. Sutfin did not specify which organ was transplanted.

Rabies is a deadly viral disease that can spread to humans through contact with saliva or blood from infected animals. As rabies progresses, it worsens in severity from flu-like symptoms to hallucinations and difficulty swallowing. By the time symptoms appear, the illness is almost always fatal.

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney transplant died from rabies.One recent evening, Rose Senehi walked down Main Street, stopping to peer into shop windows to see how much progress had been made.

The Broad River flows beneath a temporary bridge beside flood-damaged buildings in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)The Broad River flows beneath a temporary bridge beside flood-damaged buildings in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Twenty-two years ago, the novelist stopped in town to buy an ice cream cone. As she licked, she crossed a small bridge, climbed a rickety staircase to a small house, looked around “and saw that mountain.”“Within an hour I signed the contract and bought it. Out of the blue,” she said, her eyes lighting up. “Never been to this town. But I knew THIS is what I wanted.”