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Novel Vaccine for Strain of Foot-And-Mouth Disease

ScienceDaily- One of the most economically devastating diseases in the world for those who raise cows, sheep, pigs, goats, deer and other cloven-hoofed animals is foot and mouth Disease (FMD). This incredibly contagious and fast-spreading disease causes fever, blisters on the feet and mouth (hence the name), loss of appetite, drooling, and lameness. Most herds Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Op-Ed: Why One Health?

By Laura H. Kahn, M.D., M.P.P., General Internist and Research Scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. One Health is a concept that seeks to integrate human, animal, and environmental health since all are inextricably linked. This concept is not new Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, and Public Health
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Fears for 23 people after Hendra virus goes undetected for two weeks

(The Australian) BIOSECURITY authorities fear the deadly Hendra virus may have been spreading from a southeast Queensland property for two weeks before it was finally detected at the weekend. Biosecurity Queensland has quarantined the property at Mount Alford, 50km southwest of Brisbane, marking the third confirmed outbreak of the bat-borne disease in Queensland and northern Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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Say Goodbye to Google Health

(Genome Web) In a blow to all your health-records-in-the-cloud dreams, Google said that on January 1, 2012 it will shut down its Google Health project, once celebrated as a major step in getting electronic health records (and subsequently shared genomic information) to mainstream use. TechCrunch has a video with Adam Bosworth, who created the project Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Rinderpest, Scourge of Cattle, Is Vanquished

(New York Times) On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth. The disease is rinderpest. Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up. That’s because rinderpest is Read More »