Infected students in payout wrangle

University sacks two officials after diseased goats cause severe sickness

HARBIN - A dispute over compensation has developed between Northeast Agricultural University and some of its students who were infected with a severe disease while dissecting goats in class.

From March to May this year, 27 students and a teacher at the university in Heilongjiang province were diagnosed with brucella melitensis, an infectious disease classified as serious as SARS and H1N1 flu, after four goats were dissected in an anatomy class in December 2010.