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  • OHIO: OSU researcher uses a combination of hormones, selective breeding to create bigger bluegill

    Posted: April 26th, 2009 - 8:37pm

    PIKETON, Ohio -- All of the fingerling bluegill swimming in the gray tank with a scarlet 36 on it look about the same. But a quarter of them are "super males."

    Date Published: 
    26.apr.09
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  • SWITZERLAND: WHO convenes emergency meeting on swine flu crisis

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:16pm

    GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting of experts Saturday to consider declaring an international public health emergency over the swine flu outbreak believed to have killed dozens of people in Mexico and sickened at least seven in the United States.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • NEW YORK: Swine flu fears at a private school in Queens

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:14pm

    The New York City health department dispatched a team of investigators to a private school in Queens on Friday after dozens of students complained of symptoms that officials believed were consistent with a strain of swine flu that has swept Mexico City.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • US: Pigs often infect farmers, meatpackers

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:13pm

    Pigs have their own versions of influenza, and studies of farmers and meatpackers suggest that the animals fairly regularly infect people.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • WASHINGTON: Worried about swine flu? Wash your hands

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:12pm

    WASHINGTON -- Worried about swine flu? There is one easy way to protect against infection, health experts agree -- handwashing. Global health officials are worried about an unusual new strain of flu that may have killed as many as 68 people in Mexico, with 1,000 showing possible symptoms. It has infected at least eight people in the United States.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • New U.S. swine flu cases spread pandemic fears

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:10pm

    Worries that the new swine flu strain that has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico has “pandemic potential” increased with the announcement that the virus has spread to Kansas and likely to New York City.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • MEXICO shuts some schools amid deadly flu outbreak

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:09pm

    MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials, scrambling to control a swine flu outbreak that has killed as many as 61 people and infected possibly hundreds more in recent weeks, closed museums and shuttered schools for millions of students in and around the capital on Friday, and urged people with flu symptoms to stay home from work.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.09
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  • Update: Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Infections --- CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS, April 2009

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:07pm

    On April 21, 2009, CDC reported that two recent cases of febrile respiratory illness in children in southern California had been caused by infection with genetically similar swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses. The viruses contained a unique combination of gene segments that had not been reported previously among swine or human influenza viruses in the United States or elsewhere (1).

    Date Published: 
    24.apr.09
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  • PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Animal health expert network established

    Posted: April 25th, 2009 - 9:06pm

    CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) today announced a $1.2 million partnership to enhance animal health expertise in Canada.

    Date Published: 
    24.apr.09
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  • SWITZERLAND: Swine flu kills 60 in Mexico, moves to US: WHO

    Posted: April 24th, 2009 - 7:48pm

    GENEVA -- A rare outbreak of human swine flu has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and spread to the United States where authorities are on alert, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

    Date Published: 
    24.apr.09
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