article_snippet: (CNN)An employee at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans has tested positive for a potentially deadly strain of bacteria kept at the facility.
article_snippet: CNN)An employee at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans is not sick, and Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said a potentially deadly strain of bacteria kept at the facility are not likely to be a threat to the general population.
article_snippet: The CDC is waiting on additional test results to determine if the exposure occurred at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans or somewhere else, McDonald said.
article_snippet: The CDC and U.S. Department of Agriculture are at the campus, continuing an investigation that began in November when two monkeys were diagnosed with Whitmore's disease.
article_snippet: Since then federal health officials have been working with state and local officials to investigate the source.
article_snippet: Blood tests have been conducted on nearly 70 primates at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans, with one testing positive for antibodies, McDonald said.