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WHO offers some guidance on risky H5N1 studies

(CIDRAP) The World Health Organization (WHO) has offered some brief, general guidance on safety and security in research on laboratory-modified H5N1 viruses, mainly stressing that researchers should follow existing guidelines and gain authorization from their governments. The one-page guidance document, posted recently on the WHO Web site, was prompted by the recent controversy over the Read More »

July 24, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Public Health, and Research
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UN, OIE call for more controls on rinderpest virus

(AFP) ROME — The UN’s food agency and the OIE called on countries on Monday to comply with a 2011 global moratorium and destroy potentially dangerous rinderpest virus samples or put them into safe storage. The deadly animal virus, which caused cattle plague, was the second viral disease in history to be wiped out after Read More »

July 24, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and Policy & Initiatives
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Alumnus plays a pivotal role in eradicating rinderpest disease

(Phys.Org) June, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared that rinderpest was officially eradicated following decades of work in numerous countries. Rinderpest, once a major scourge of cattle and similar wild and domesticated species, such as yaks and buffalo, cut a wide swath across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Over the millennia, Read More »

July 20, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Research
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DRC: Livestock disease hits small farmers in west

(IRINnews.org) KINSHASA, 19 July 2012 (IRIN) – Thousands of goat farmers in parts of Bandundu Province in western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are counting their losses after an outbreak of the deadly livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR). “[Livestock] farmers have become miserable with many unable to sustain their livelihoods after the death Read More »

July 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa and Agriculture
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Foot and Mouth disease breakout, MPs ask government to vaccinate

(UGPulse.com) MPs have directed government to avail funds for procurement of vaccination drugs to vaccinate livestock in the country due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The most hit areas are reported in western region where animals are dying at high rates. MPs, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Theodro Sekikubo Harriet Ntabazi , Dr.Merdad Bitekyerezo Read More »