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Story Of The Year Goes Largely Unnoticed

(Huffington Post) I happen to be one very minor casualty of the eventually victorious war on smallpox. When I was vaccinated as a child, something uncharacteristically went wrong and I ended up contracting, for a short while, a mild form of cowpox. …

Industry irked pork imports kept secret

(Sydney Morning Herald) PORK products were smuggled into Australia from South Korea at the same time it was battling its biggest outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The biosecurity scare took place last year when the pork was intercepted by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. It infuriated the pig and beef industries, which claim  Read More »

Korea, Chile sign pork protection pact

(The Korea Herald) … on preventing and controlling animal disease and promote good livestock production practices, both areas of concern for Korean farmers following the culling of hundreds of thousands of pigs during last winter’s foot and mouth outbreak here. …

Municipality reviews bans – Russian birds, eggs OK

(Arab Times Kuwait English Daily) He noted the quarterly import of meat from Bangladesh has also been suspended to prevent foot and mouth disease. He explained the committee is active and plans on recommending to retain the ban on import of birds from the GCC countries until Public …

HOWEY: What does it mean to be a statesman?

(Evening News and Tribune) But it is the WMD, including biological weapons, in the possession of terrorist groups that former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates acknowledged on CBS’s 60 Minutes that “Keep me up at night.” Myers not only has worked to implement Nunn-Lugar around …

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