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By Region: Africa

SA delays foot-and-mouth plea

(Business Day) SA WAS not yet ready to ask the World Organisation for Animal Health to reinstate the country's foot-and-mouth disease-free status so that the ban on exports of cloven-hoofed animals and by-products could be lifted, the Department of Agriculture, …

October 7, 2011
| Filed under Africa and Agriculture
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Africa: Fact Sheet On US Action to Address Global Health Security

(AllAfrica.com) Through fora such as the UN Security Resolution 1540, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States is pursuing a common vision where disease no longer threatens the security and prosperity of …

October 6, 2011
| Filed under Africa, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Foot-and-mouth ban to cost R4bn a year

(Independent Online) Livestock industries in South Africa could lose more than R4 billion this year because the country lost its status as a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) free zone in February. The loss of the free zone status meant that South Africa could no longer export …

October 4, 2011
| Filed under Africa and Agriculture
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South Africa’s ‘Dr. Death’ faces ethics inquiry

(LA Times) Wouter Basson ran the apartheid-era regime’s germ and chemical warfare program, Project Coast. He is charged with manufacturing dangerous drugs, some of which allegedly were used on activists.

September 29, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Biological Weapons, and Policy & Initiatives
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Uganda: How Uganda Got Rid of Rinderpest

(AllAfrica.com) Rinderpest is a word of German origin translated as 'cattle plague' in English. It is a devastating viral cattle disease and some wildlife species such as buffaloes, giraffes and antelopes. It is said to have killed up to 95% of the cattle population …