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America's hidden epidemic of tropical diseases
2013-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: WHEN the letter arrives, it must come as a shock. Would-be blood donors are politely rejected because they've tested positive for a deadly tropical infection and their doctors aren't much help. Kristy Murray at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, recalls one doctor telling a patient: "The test is wrong. That disease doesn't exist in the US!" But an estimated 330,000 US citizens, and possibly as many as a million, carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease. It is a chronic, silent...
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Addressing the Growing Epidemic of PEDV
2013-11-04 20:46:00| National Hog Farmer
By Albert Rovira, DVM, University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic laboratory Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus was first detected in the United States in May 2013 in several apparently unrelated farms, and has spread rapidly to many other swine herds creating a nationwide epidemic. This situation raises two main questions that are still being researched: 1) where did this virus come from? And 2) how is it spreading between herds? read more
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Weekly Overview: Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea and the Need to Tight Biosecurity
2013-11-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - New information points to the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus in the US has been transmitted by three routes - from pig to pig, on trucks and in the air. These highlight the vital importance of biosecurity procedures in helping to control the spread of the disease. Canada is soon to introduced a national swine traceability programme, which aims to aid the control of both animal and foodborne disease. A third outbreak of PRRS has been reported in Chile.
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Don't Cause the Next Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic
2013-09-04 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Environmental activists who want to see a lifting of the European Union ban on feeding kitchen and catering waste to pigs may be sending confusing signals to hobby pig-keepers, warns the National Pig Association.
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Epidemic of Kidney Failure in Sugar Industry Workers of Guanacaste
2013-08-06 10:02:01| Sugar Industry News
Epidemiologist and Oncologist Dr. Roy Wong McClure asked the Ministry of Health and the Presidency of the Republic to declare a health emergency in Guanacaste due to the increase of renal failure in sugar industry workers.
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