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Open government advocates are fighting a bill they say would keep secret information about deadly germs studied at the Galveston National Laboratory.
DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn has defended the government's determination to press ahead with plans to share the cost of fighting animal disease with farmers.
MONTPELIER – State officials charged with preparing for a swine flu emergency traveled to Washington, D.C., on Thursday to hear what the Obama administration is doing in case of a major public health outbreak. ... - By DANIEL BARLOW VERMONT PRESS BUREAU
PARIS (AFP) - Pigs, fingered as the source of so-called swine flu, can also be infected by humans, German scientists said yesterday. The findings add a new risk factor to the global pandemic sparked by the A (H1N1) virus, they said.
JAKARTA (AFP) - Confirmed cases of swine flu in Indonesia have nearly doubled, with the national total standing at 52, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Thursday.
The nation's first standard to safeguard workers from the spread of airborne diseases was approved yesterday by California's Office of Administrative Law and filed with the Secretary of State. With full support from labor and management stakeholders, on May 21 the Cal/OSHA Standards Board unanimously approved the Aerosol Transmissible Disease (ATD) standard which is designed to protect workers ...
There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain - commonly known as swine flu - from humans, German researchers said on Thursday
Afghans look at Afghanistan's only known pig in Kabul Zoo July 4, 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Sayedi LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain -- commonly known as swine flu -- from humans, German researchers said on Thursday.
PARIS: Pigs, fingered as the source of so-called swine flu, can also be infected by humans, German scientists said Thursday. The findings add a new risk factor to the global pandemic sparked by the A (H1N1) virus, they said.
The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.
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