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H5N1: How to track a flu virus

(Nature.com) Four experts pinpoint ways to improve monitoring of H5N1 avian influenza in the field. The H5N1 influenza outbreak in Asia is unprecedented: never before has a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus prevailed for so long, spread to so many countries or generated so many genetic variants. Why? Partly because of its persistence in …

Egyptian Camel Handlers Threaten ‘Siege’

(RIA Novosti) Egyptian camel handlers said they would bring thousands of camels to the Egyptian capital Cairo to block the buildings of the cabinet and the agriculture ministry if the nationwide foot-and-mouth disease quarantine is not lifted.

Mandela reappointed me: Basson

(Times LIVE) Cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson told a professional conduct committee on Tuesday that president Nelson Mandela had re-appointed him to the SA National Defence Force in 1995 because the United States and British governments regarded him as a threat. Basson was in the witness stand for a second day to fight charges of unethical  Read More »

EGYPT: Livestock disease puts livelihoods, food security at risk

(IRIN) A new strain of foot-and-mouth disease in Egypt has killed several thousand livestock, put farmers’ livelihoods at risk and could threaten regional food security, say local and international experts.

Egyptian foot and mouth threatens region’s food security

(ABC Online) A new strain of Foot and Mouth Disease, known as SAT2, has broken out in Egypt and is threatening to spread to other areas of northern Africa and the Middle East. Already there are more than 40000 suspected cases of the disease in Egypt …

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