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Trading spaces: Biosecurity Research Institute to house Plum Island’s pathogen …

(EurekAlert!) Instead much of it will transition to Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute at Pat Robert’s Hall before eventually transitioning to NBAF. Stephen Higgs, research director at the Biosecurity Research Institute, or BRI, …

January 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Research
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Paraguay confirms new foot-and-mouth outbreak

(AFP) ASUNCION — Major beef exporter Paraguay confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease Tuesday in the north of the country, four days after lifting a state of emergency imposed in the region in September. Daniel Rojas, head of the government’s …

January 4, 2012
| Filed under South America, Agriculture, and Policy & Initiatives
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New Findings About The Prion Protein And Its Interaction With The Immune System

(Medical News Today) Scrapie is a neurodegenerative disease which can function as a model for other diseases caused by an accumulation of proteins resulting in tissue malformations (proteinpathies), such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Many questions regarding these diseases still remain unanswered. A new doctoral study has uncovered a number of factors relating to the Read More »

January 3, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agriculture, and Research
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Fears of another foot and mouth disease outbreak in Paraguay

(MercoPress) Paraguay’s Livestock Sanitary Office has confirmed the isolation of a cattle farm in the north of the country where an apparent outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been reported. The farm is approximately 35 kilometres from the outbreak reported last …

January 3, 2012
| Filed under South America and Agriculture
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‘Cattle being brought without vaccination’

(Times of India) THRISSUR: Cattle are being transported from Tamil Nadu to Kerala without proper anthrax vaccination certificates issued by the animal husbandry department, say officials. And there is no facility to ensure that each cattle is vaccinated, they add.