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Fear of Ruin as Disease Takes Hold of Italys Olive Trees
2015-05-11 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Across the stony heel of Italy, a peninsula ringed by the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean, olive trees have existed for centuries, shaping the landscape and producing some of the nations finest olive oils. Except now many of the trees are dying. Sprinkled among the healthy trees are clusters of sick ones, denuded of leaves and standing like skeletons, their desiccated branches bereft of olives. The trees are succumbing to a bacterial outbreak that is sweeping across one of Italys most...
Long-term study ticks reveals shifting migration patterns, disease risks
2015-05-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Over nearly 15 years spent studying ticks, Indiana University's Keith Clay has found southern Indiana to be an oasis free from Lyme disease, the condition most associated with these arachnids that are the second most common parasitic disease vector on Earth. He has also seen signs that this low-risk environment is changing, both in Indiana and in other regions of the U.S. A Distinguished Professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology, Clay has received support...
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Pakistan: Climate change aggravate disease burden, warns minister
2015-05-11 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has cautioned that Pakistans disease burden and its overall impact on socioeconomic development gains made in recent years will escalate. This, he added, would lead to rise in avoidable deaths in coming years because of the rapidly changing and erratic climate. Most of such deaths will be in urban areas like, among others, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar, where living standard and health...
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Update on Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease in US
2015-05-11 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The number of pig farm samples that are confirmed positive for porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) in the last week was 17, while three premises were confirmed with porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) and none with the dual infection (PEDV and PDCoV).
Cambridge rare disease biotech Synageva to be acquired for $8.4B
2015-05-06 13:59:14| Biotech - Topix.net
Cambridge rare disease biotech Synageva BioPharma Corp. will be acquired for $8.4 billion by Connecticut-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals, the two companies announced today.
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