An animal research worker has died of a rare herpes B infection after contaminated fluid landed in her eye as she peered into the cage of an infected monkey, doctors said. The woman, whose

identity was not disclosed, worked at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center; she is the first known person to contract a virus through an eye. She was treated after the incident six

weeks ago and was hospitalized two weeks later when she developed weakness in her legs. Herpes B viral infection is common in macaque monkeys. It is rare but usually fatal in humans. MORE TO

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