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  • ONTARIO: Elementary school reptile club: Good, bad or ugly

    Posted: June 13th, 2012 - 2:46pm

    Today's Toronto Star has an article about a reptile club in a Toronto Elementary School. Teacher Jim Karkavitsas runs a session every day that teaches students about a range of reptiles. His menagerie has expanded from one snake five years ago to more than 40 different species in his classroom.

    Date Published: 
    11.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    Worms & Germs Blog
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  • CANADA: CFIA finds missing sheep

    Posted: June 11th, 2012 - 11:42am

    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has found 31 missing sheep it had under quarantine because of scrapie. It says only that they were found on a farm, but not whose or where because the CFIA says police are involved. The CFIA intended to destroy the flock in Eastern Ontario, but on the eve of destruction, the sheep went missing.

     

    Date Published: 
    09.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    Agri 007
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  • US: Physicians, vets and zoonotic diseases

    Posted: June 7th, 2012 - 9:12pm

    People like to talk about 'one medicine' a lot. That's the concept that we're all animals, and that human and veterinary medicine should be one big happy family of healthcare providers that maintain the health of the entire family, human and non-human. I get a bit jaded talking about one medicine because there's a lot of talk but it's hard to get a lot of action.

    Date Published: 
    06.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    Worms & Germs Blog
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  • A quantitative risk assessment for bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Japan

    Posted: June 3rd, 2012 - 10:07pm

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    02.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    Risk Analysis
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  • Development and validation of a method for the determination of sulfonamides in animal feed by modified QuEChERS and LC–MS/MS analysis

    Posted: June 3rd, 2012 - 12:27pm

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    15.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Food Control, Volume 28, Issue 1, November 2012, Pages 192–198
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  • US: Treating poultry diseases without antibiotics

    Posted: May 31st, 2012 - 12:51pm

    Identifying antimicrobial proteins in chickens that kill pathogens is one method being used by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to find alternatives to the use of antibiotics to control infectious poultry diseases. Each year, poultry diseases such as coccidiosis cause losses of more than $600 million in the United States and $3.2 billion worldwide.

    Date Published: 
    29.may.12
    Source Title: 
    ARS
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  • AUSTRALIA: Alarm at antibiotics in fish imports

    Posted: May 31st, 2012 - 12:49pm

    Australian medical experts have raised the alarm over a rising number of Asian fish imports containing banned antibiotics.

    Date Published: 
    30.may.12
    Source Title: 
    The Age
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  • BRITISH COLUMBIA: B.C.’s Animal Health Act makes sickness a secret

    Posted: May 28th, 2012 - 10:30am

    In a world of contagions, of mad-cow disease and bird flu, where the next pandemic seems just a viral mutation away, news that a farm has been quarantined because of a disease outbreak is unnerving. But is that any reason to suppress information?

    Date Published: 
    27.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Globe and Mail
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  • Livestock producers encouraged to take advantage of Youtube

    Posted: May 25th, 2012 - 12:13pm

    An animal science professor with Colorado State University is encouraging livestock producers to make use of youtube to show the public what happens day to day on their farms. The topic, "Animal Welfare: The Right Thing to Do," was the focus of a public presentation yesterday in Brandon.

    Date Published: 
    24.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Farmscape
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  • US: New technique used to discover new viruses in poultry

    Posted: May 20th, 2012 - 12:41pm

    In a search to find better ways to control viral enteric diseases in birds, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have unearthed a treasure trove of previously known and unknown viruses in poultry by using a powerful new molecular tool called metagenomics.

    Date Published: 
    17.may.12
    Source Title: 
    ARS
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