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Egypt Ag minister blames Libya cows for spread of foot and mouth disease

(Bikya Masr) CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture Reda Ismael said on Monday that the reason behind the viral spread of Foot and Mouth disease in many districts across Egypt was the smuggling of foreign infected cows across the border from Libya, which have been …

Overuse of antibiotics means that a scraped knee could become deadly, WHO warns

(GlobalPost) Before antibiotics were invented, even minor infections could become extremely dangerous. But now scientists say that antibiotics are not as effective as they used to be. In a new conference this week, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan sounded the alarm on antibiotic resistance, caused by excessive use of the drugs.

WHO hopes controversial bird flu studies will be published by summer

(Winnipeg Free Press) The moratorium Fukuda refers to is a promise, made by the world’s leading influenza scientists, not to conduct further study for the time being into what might make H5N1 avian flu viruses transmit among mammals — including maybe humans.

Flu Debate Highlights Opacity of Public Health Research

(PLoS Blogs) After weeks of debate, the decision was finally made in February to publish in full two studies that report the cultivation of H5N1 bird flu virus mutants that can pass between mammals. The decision was made with the caveat of delaying publication, in part to settle the anxieties of the public over the  Read More »

DA Requests Meeting With Minister Joemat-Pettersson On Disease Outbreaks

(AllAfrica.com) The outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in May 2011 caused the export of all cloven-hoofed-animals (cattle, sheep and game) to be foreclosed by the OIE (the World Health Organisation’s division for animal health). This ban is still in place and is …

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