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Pittsburgh Zoo's elephant expert helps Zimbabwe handlers stop spread of tuberculosis
2016-04-12 09:57:34| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium elephant curator has traveled to Zimbabwe to teach handlers for elephant-back safaris how to test elephants for tuberculosis, which is still a problem in humans in that country. SENT A SPECIAL MAN TO AFRICA TO HELP >> I KNOW.
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Canadian researchers mosquito trap offers hope in fight against Zika spread
2016-04-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: A new mosquito trap designed by a Canadian researcher is almost seven times more effective than conventional devices, according to a new study conducted in northern Guatemala, providing hope that the spread of mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika can be better controlled. Laurentian University researcher Dr. Gerardo Ulibarri has been crafting and testing mosquito traps for years. His latest is called the ovillanta. The low-cost trap, made from discarded tires and other recycled materials, has proven...
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ASF Continues Spread Through Eastern Europe
2016-03-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EUROPE - African Swine Fever (ASF) is continuing to spread through the Eastern European and Russian wild boar population.
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GMO labels spread as U.S. congressional effort to halt them fades
2016-03-25 00:42:42| Food - Topix.net
Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law. The moves come as U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to derail Vermont's law requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, before it takes effect on July 1. The law sets fines of $1,000 per day per product for noncompliance.
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Climate, Movement, and the Spread of Disease
2016-03-18 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Setting the Scene On the southwest coast of Madagascar, the sun burns bright and fierce over white-hot sands and turquoise seas. The plants are small and spiny and hardened against the relentless droughtthey store water over long periods in bulging baobab trunks, and open their stomata to drink in CO2 only sparingly in the relative cool of the night. The people of the southwest too, are dark and weathered and wiryin the jumbled diversity of ethnicities that characterize the Eighth Continent,...
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