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Fight Flu-Causing Germs

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With a growing worldwide flu pandemic, parents may be wondering if they should add hand sanitizers to their children’s backpacks. Researchers have shown that each hand may carry 10,000 to 10 million bacteria. Sneezing or coughing into your hands and then touching inanimate objects, such as doorknobs, can lead to the spread of germs from
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Hard Times Have U. S. Hog Producers Seeking Help

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“The big driver of losses for this business is the run-up in costs of production.” – STEVE MEYER U. S. hog producers, who have been losing money since late 2007, have asked the U. S. Agriculture Department for $250 million in assistance, of which $150 million would buy pork for federal food programs. Producers also
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No Risk Of U. S., Mexico Border Closures Over H1N1, Says Wowchuk

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“Was no discussion about closing borders.” – agriculture minister rosann wowchuk Canada’s NAFTA trading partners won’t seize the opportunity of an H1N1 outbreak in Canadian hogs to close their borders to live animal imports – nor would Canada do the same – according to Manitoba’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Rosann Wowchuk. Discussions
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Updated H1N1 Influenza Advice Sent To Manitoba Schools

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School principals and superintendents across the province have received updated H1N1 influenza information about infection prevention, vaccination and absenteeism, along with public health advice for ill children or staff, Health Minister Theresa Oswald and Education, Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson announced Aug. 17. “Manitoba’s health-care experts know that parents, students and teachers have questions
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NAFTA Trade Delegates Denounce “Mischaracterization” Of H1N1

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It’s time to stop calling H1N1 the “swine flu.” As they wrapped up the 19th annual meeting of the Tri-National Agricultural Accord in Gimli on Aug. 14, delegates from Canada, Mexico and the United States issued a joint appeal to the media and health officials to end the practice of using “technically incorrect” and inflammatory
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Peru Finds Swine Flu In Amazon Tribe

Members of an Amazon tribe have tested positive for the new H1N1 swine flu, Peruvian health officials said Aug. 12, raising concerns the deadly virus could spread to more remote communities with limited defences against disease. The seven cases, reported in the Matsigenka tribe, were confirmed by the Health Ministry’s regional office in southeastern Peru.
Hogs, Livestock

South Korea Lifts Live Hog Import Ban

South Korea said Aug. 11 it would resume imports of live swine from North America, lifting a ban imposed since the outbreak of H1N1 flu in April. South Korea is one of several countries including Russia and China that slapped bans on imports of pork products or live hogs on flu fears, which has hit
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China Erects Pork Wall At Alberta Border

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Don’t get Grant Lazaruk going about H1N1. And don’t ever let him hear you call it swine flu. The disease and its unfortunate name have been nothing but a headache for Lazaruk’s company Hytek Ltd. and its hog processing plant, Springhill Farms in Neepawa. That’s because Hytek was recently forced to ship pork to China
Crops, Hogs

Flu Crossed Back From Hogs To Inspectors: Reports

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Two Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers may be the first known cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza crossing from hogs to humans. The CFIA employees, who both have tested positive for the flu strain recently elevated to pandemic status, were working in late April on a quarantined Rocky Mountain House, Alta.-area farm which, at the time,
Hogs, Livestock

Canadian Pork Can Now Be Sold To Russia

MOSCOW/REUTERS Russia said on July 17 it would lift a ban on live pigs and raw pork imports from the U. S. state of Wisconsin and Canada’s Ontario province from July 18 due to what it said was a “stabilization” of the situation of the H1N1 virus in those places. The animal and plant health

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