Is pain contagious? Study suggests it spreads among mice by smell

(By Eric Boodman for STAT)

The mice should not have been feeling pain.

Their hind paws were being touched with filaments so thin that most mice would hardly notice the tickle. Yet these animals reacted as if their paws were on fire. Continue reading article here……

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