The 25-year-old laboratory researcher at the hospital died Saturday morning shortly after asking friends to take him to the hospital. For the week and months before his death, he had been handling a rare and dangerous bacteria at the VA Hospital\'s Northern California Institute for Research and Education, said Peter Melton, a spokesman for the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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