Report of ant infestation pushes VA to make changes

ATLANTA (AP) — An official has been put on leave and others reassigned following a report of a cancer patient bitten more than 100 times by ants at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs living center in Georgia.
Dr. Richard Stone, the Veterans Health Administration executive in charge, said in a news release Tuesday that the VA’s Southeast regional director was placed on administrative leave.
Laquna Ross told WSB-TV she found her father, Air Force veteran Joel Marrable, with swollen,