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Swine Flu Spreads From People To Pigs

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The discovery last weekend of the H1N1 Influenza A flu virus in an Alberta pig herd is the latest blow for Canada’s hog farmers already reeling from a barrage of bad news. The so-called swine flu spreading around the world had already disrupted markets and created a public image problem for pork producers, even though
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Symptomless Egypt Bird Flu Cases Studied

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The World Health Organization is concerned some Egyptians may carry the highly pathogenic bird flu virus with-o ut showing symptoms, which could give it more of a chance to mutate to a strain that spreads easily among humans. Whether such cases exist still has to be put to the test and will be the focus
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China Introduces New Food Safety Law

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China said March 2 that food security remains “grim” after a series of health scandals, the most recent being last year’s tainted milk formula that killed at least six toddlers and made almost 300,000 sick. A new food safety law, approved Feb. 28 in an accelerated process after the milk scandal came to light in
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Indian state reports fresh bird flu outbreak

Health and veterinary workers culled poultry in a densely populated eastern state in India Jan. 3 after a fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, officials said. The latest outbreak of the virus in poultry is the fourth in the state of West Bengal since 2007. Bird flu first broke out in India in 2006. Millions
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Pay China’s farmers to halt bird flu: OIE

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China should focus on financial compensation for farmers who report new bird flu cases if it wants to stamp out the disease that killed a 19-year-old woman last week, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said Jan. 7. OIE director general Bernard Vallat said many farmers hesitate to report bird flu cases for fear
Hogs, Other

Philippines investigates Ebola in pigs

The Philippines has asked the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for help in stopping the spread of Ebola-Reston virus after an infection was found in some hog farms early this year, an official said on Dec. 17. The Agriculture Department has sent requests to the FAO to test an initial 10,000 swine in two
Beef cattle, Opinion

Food irradiation’s time has come

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Irradiation shouldn’t replace good manufacturing practices but can be an important step in the right direction. Well, it’s been quite a summer. Who would have thought just a few months ago that food safety would be front and centre as a federal election issue, or that obscure people who work for universities would suddenly emerge
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Farm groups want a voice at pesticide meeting

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“Farmers are a lot more conscious of the impact of pesticides and the need to apply them properly.” Some farm groups want to be sure delegates to a Canadian Cancer Society conference on agricultural pesticides get the farmers’ side of the story. “We want to ensure the voice of producers is heard on the need
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Wild birds seen carrying bird flus to U. S.

Migrating water fowl may be carrying avian influenza viruses from Asia to the Americas, U. S. government researchers reported Oct. 28. They found genetic evidence that some non-dangerous influenza viruses infecting northern pintail ducks in Alaska are genetically more closely related to Asian strains of bird flu than to North American strains. “Although some previous

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