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Foot and Mouth Disease Reported Again in Taiwan

(The Pig Site) Laboratory tests carried out in the Animal Health Research Institute have tested positive for FMD. The results impact on a herd of 181 pigs in the Dongshih Township or Yun-Lin on the west of the island. Of the 181 pigs in the herd, 83 were found to be FMD-positive with a morbidity  Read More »

Yellow fever outbreak kills 164 in Sudan’s Darfur: WHO

(Chicago Tribune) Yellow fever has killed 164 people over the last three months in Sudan’s Darfur, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, an arid region the size of Spain where fighting and banditry makes access particularly difficult. Healthcare is provided almost entirely by aid agencies in parts of Darfur, where rebels took up  Read More »

The role of the cellular entry point of anthrax identified

(Phys.org) A team led by Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with Gisou van der Goot at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), reveals that Antxr2a actually plays a role in embryonic development, orienting cell division along a specific plane, which is a prelude to the formation of  Read More »

US Plans for New H5N1 Science Reviews Ruffle Researchers

(AAAS) Researchers are giving mixed reviews to a draft U.S. government plan to subject some grant requests for studies involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus to special reviews—and perhaps even require the work to be kept secret. Elements of the plan have been “very controversial within [the] U.S. government” committee that developed it, Amy Patterson,  Read More »

2500 Pigs Culled to Prevent Foot-and-Mouth Disease in China

(The Epoch Times) At least 43 pigs infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have died at a large pig farm near Dalian City in Liaoning Province, China. The remaining pigs on the farm in Erdao Village were slaughtered by the police on order of local authorities to prevent the spread of this highly contagious disease. “The  Read More »

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