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West Nile Virus Season to Last Longer as Climate Changes
2013-09-10 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Warm weather brings ice cream, beach days, and other joys of summer but it also brings the incessant buzz of mosquitoes. While a number of mosquitoes will bite and leave little more than a red welt, others, especially in the southern half of the U.S., can transmit West Nile virus, which can cause potentially lethal West Nile fever, encephalitis and meningitis. New research provides doses of good and bad news about how a changing climate will affect the southern house mosquito, which is the main mosquito...
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Complex Human Vaccination Strategy Needed in Case of Swine Flu Virus Pandemic
2013-09-06 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - New research reveals that different vaccination strategies of the human population may be necessary according to age if swine influenza viruses were to emerge as a significant pandemic threat.
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PRRS Virus Evolution Slows
2013-09-03 21:28:00| National Hog Farmer
By Albert Rovira, DVM, University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus remains a very important disease of swine in the United States. At the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, hundreds of samples are routinely tested for this virus by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) every month. This test can differentiate between the two main types of PRRS virus: the European type and the North American type. Both types have been described in the United States. read more
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PED Virus Found in Wisconsin Pigs
2013-08-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PEDv), a devastating virus especially fatal to young pigs, has been found in Wisconsin.
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Argonide Launches Virus Sampler Forum
2013-08-29 17:48:00| Chemical Processing
Dr. Charles Gerba and Dr. George Lukasik will each start a discussion by posting a new topic.
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