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North Korea officially confirms foot and mouth outbreak

(Global Post) North Korea on Friday confirmed an outbreak of food-and-mouth disease (FMD), which led to the culling of thousands of pigs, for the first time this year. The animal disease broke out at a pig farm in a suburb of Pyongyang on January 8 and spread to 17 areas of Pyongyang and Junghwa County  Read More »

Health security effort to boost global disease response

(The Dolphin) Top administration officials joined representatives from federal agencies and 26 nations to launch an international effort that will help to boost the global capacity to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks, Feb. 13. At the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Lisa Monaco, assistant to the  Read More »

China confirms H5N1, goat plague cases

(Global Times) The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Tuesday confirmed outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu in poultry in southwest China’s Guizhou Province and goat plague in northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. On Feb. 13, a farm in a village of Xixiu District in Anshun City of Guizhou reported 3,629 chickens had showed symptoms of suspected  Read More »

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Researchers gear up to battle bug that’s devastating U.S. citrus crop

(The Fresno Bee) In a secure Biosafety 3 containment facility at the University of California at Davis, researchers are required to de-robe, pull on scrubs and pass through negative pressure doors — something like an airlock — before they can begin their work. Leaving requires a shower and more airlocks.