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Obama Budget Cuts Deeply From Threat Reduction Accounts

By Chris Schneidmiller Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new budget would cut more than $300 million from programs intended to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials or other ingredients for weapons of mass destruction, according to a new analysis by an organization that advocates the work. “If enacted by Congress, these cuts Read More »

April 19, 2013
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Foot-and-mouth disease confirmed in Xinjiang

(ChinaOrg) China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Tuesday that foot-and-mouth disease infections were confirmed in cows in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. On April 8, a farm in Lop County in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture reported that 12 cows showed suspected signs of the disease, according to the MOA.

April 18, 2013
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Epidemiological Endgame: Is Polio on the Brink of Eradication? – Scientific American

Scientific AmericanEpidemiological Endgame: Is Polio on the Brink of Eradication?Scientific AmericanOne of the great ironies of any disease elimination program (of which polio would be just the third example, after smallpox in humans and rinderpest in cattle) is that the costs to prevent the last several dozen cases are quite high compared with the …and Read More »

April 18, 2013
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Epidemiological Endgame: Is Polio on the Brink of Eradication? – Scientific American

April 18, 2013
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Swine Fever Spreads to More Regions

(AllAfrica) THE government has deployed experts in regions reportedly hit by the African Swine Fever (ASF) to study the magnitude of the problem and take relevant action. The Minister for Livestock Development and Fisheries, Dr Mathayo David Mathayo, told the ‘Daily News’ on Tuesday that the government was aware of the disease and urged farmers Read More »