Nine-year-old Alessia Ramos gently pets a hamster at a Mexican hospital where animals ranging from Australian parakeets to a Siberian Husky are being used to provide mental health therapy.The facility is the only public hospital in Mexico using animals to treat mental illnesses, though such therapy is also practiced in other countries.
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A committee tasked with reducing groundwater pollution in Morrow and Umatilla counties is restructuring amid mounting concerns over hazardous nitrate contamination in local drinking water.
More than 30 years after being recognized as a problem, nitrate contamination is still making well water unsafe to drink in Morrow and Umatilla counties.