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Ministry of health assures on anthrax outbreak

(UGPulse.com) The ministry of health says the recent outbreak of Anthrax disease in the western region is under control and should not cause panic. The outbreak was reported in Sheema district, with 2 people and 3 animals reported dead and is suspected to have spread …

November 11, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, and Public Health
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Video: Re-energising Global Agricultural Productivity

(OECD) OECD Trade and Agriculture Director Ken Ash speaks with Rose O’Donovan, editor of Agra Focus and Agra Facts, about agricultural productivity, reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and ensuring global food security.

November 10, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Agriculture, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Ankole cattle corridor faces anthrax outbreak

(Daily Monitor) The Ankole cattle corridor is on high alert following an anthrax outbreak that claimed the lives of two people in Sheema District, last week. The district health inspector, Mr Francis Mugume, said five other people were admitted to Kabwohe Health …

November 9, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, and Public Health
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Suspected anthrax outbreak spreads to Mbarara

(New Vision) THE recent outbreak of Anthrax which killed two people and three animals in Sheema district is suspected to have spread to the neighbouring sub-county of Bubaare in Mbarara district. Fred Kafureeka, 55 and his colleague only identified as Boroba died …

November 8, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, and Public Health
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A water cooler for the public health crowd

(ScienceBlogs) When CDC labs found a new virus in spinal fluid from patients, they named it Nipah virus, after a village where the fire sale pigs had been sent, and it was designated a Biosafety Level 4 pathogen, equivalent to Ebola. "People left their farms, …