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Foot-and-Mouth Continues to Spread

(DailyNK) Foot-and-mouth disease appears to have spread throughout North Korea, with reports of infected cattle as far south as Kangwon Province. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced during a press conference on the 28th that at least four cattle with the highly contagious disease had been discovered at a cooperative farm near the  Read More »

Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – update

(WHO) On 27 March 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified WHO of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus. A 55 year-old woman from Huizhou City, Guangdong Province. She became ill on 16 March and was admitted to hospital on 23 March. She is  Read More »

Rising number of bird flu cases in Cambodia under scrutiny

(ABC Australia) It was the highest number of human cases in the world and more than the total that Cambodia had recorded, since H5N1 was first detected there a decade ago. So far this year, another four Cambodians have died from avian influenza. This week, officials from Cambodia, Vietnam and international agencies have been meeting  Read More »

Biosecurity spending under the microscope

(Newstalk ZB) Biosecurity spending priorities are being put under the microscope. The Ministry for Primary Industries spent over $900,000 on an operation earlier this year after a single Queensland Fruit fly was found in Whangarei. Labour MP Damien O’Connor says the money had to be spent, and the work had to be done, but it’s  Read More »

A New Killer Virus in China?

(Science/AAAS) In June 2012, three men removing slag from a derelict copper mine in southwestern China fell ill with severe pneumonia and died. Six months later, researchers went spelunking in the mine—an artificial cave hewn from a hillside—in search of pathogens. After taking anal swabs from bats, rats, and musk shrews living in the cave,  Read More »

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