It urged people to not eat, drink or smoke while tending to a pet rodent, to refrain from kissing it, to cover cuts on hands before handling them and to keep them in clean cages away from rooms where food is prepared and eaten.

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Theoretically, Bonfield has clean hands and has no reason to string investors along or to make promises he cannot keep.

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