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Is Climate Change Increasing the Disease Risk for Arctic Marine Mammals?
2014-02-14 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Climate change is melting Arctic sea ice, leaving animals that depend on it high and dry. Marine mammals like ringed seals have to find new areas to give birth, raise their young, and haul out. And now, experts say, these animals must deal with another woeemerging diseases. Ice-free parts of the Arctic seem to be opening up new areas for more than just shipping companies. A new species of parasite, Sarcocystis pinnipedi, is on the move south, infecting gray seals and killing off as much as 20...
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Biosecurity Resources Available to Help Prevent Disease Outbreaks
2014-02-14 05:06:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: eXtension Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center Research has shown that diseases like porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) spread quickly via fecal-oral transmission paths. The risk of transferring diseases via manure handling equipment puts extra pressure on both livestock owners and their manure haulers. The eXtension Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center has compiled a reference list of manure biosecurity guidelines and resources with helpful links to fact sheets and educational materials from a variety of sources. read more
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Winter Olympics Pose Disease Risk for British Pigs
2014-02-12 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Border Force officers will be paying special attention to passengers returning from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, in a bid to prevent African swine fever entering Britain in contaminated meat products, according to food and farming minister George Eustice.
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NIH partners with 10 pharma companies to tackle major disease targets
2014-02-11 13:04:54| Food - Topix.net
The National Institutes of Health and 10 pharmaceutical companies have launched a partnership to transform the current model for identifying and validating promising biological targets for Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Canadian Pork Industry Prepared to Deal with Disease Threat
2014-02-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - A veterinarian with the Office of Manitoba's Chief Veterinarian says tools developed over the past few years have helped prepare the Canadian swine industry to deal with new disease threats, such as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED), writes Bruce Cochrane.
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