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Bird flu virus hits poultry farms in Mexico

2013-02-20 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

Mexico has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu across seven farms in the state of Guanajuato, caused by a strain of H7N3 virus.

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No Virus is Invincible, Says Axcentive

2013-02-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

EU - HalamidÂ® is frequently tested against the latest norms for its killing effect on pathogenic viruses and bacteria, according to Axcentive.

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Avoiding virus dangers in 'domesticating' wild plants for biofuel use

2013-02-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels, plants such as switchgrass. However, attempts to "domesticate" wild-growing plants have a downside, as it could make the plants more susceptible to any number of plant viruses. In a presentation at this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Michigan State University plant biologist Carolyn Malmstrom said that when we start...

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Virus Study May Signal Trouble for Animal Populations Facing Climate Change

2013-02-01 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the planet's temperature and weather will become increasingly erratic with wild, unpredictable storms and fluctuating conditions. A new study from researchers at the University of Florida and Yale University and published today by the journal Evolution investigated how an organism -- in this case, a simple virus -- adapts to temperature change when that change comes in different ways: constant, in a recognizable...

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