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“Princeton was a beacon of joy, lighting up every room he entered with his humor and infectious smile,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, the state’s agriculture department, which had been routinely testing Raw Farm milk products kept getting negative results — leaving infectious disease experts confused.

He added that bovine TB needed "to be made visible again as the infectious, zoonotic, potentially fatal disease that it is with clear economic impacts".

It can also be spread through close physical contact with an infectious person; casual contact does not spread the virus.

“Cuts to these agencies could severely diminish their capacity to monitor and respond to emerging infectious diseases,” Rajnarayanan said.