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[Import Industry News] USDA Proposes To Allow Imports of Live Birds, Poultry Products ...: The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced its determination regarding the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1 status of Germany and Poland following .

[LatinWorld] Bringing Pets With You: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil: Now here’s the tricky part.  Your cat or dog MUST be checked by a Panamanian vet at the Tocumen airport in Panama City, and the vet must be government-authorized.  Easy, right?  Well yes, except the vets only work from 9am to 3pm and from 7pm to 10pm Monday through Friday.  If your plane lands after hours or on the weekend, you either have to keep your pet at the airport until the vets go back to work or arrange for a government vet to meet your plane.  You can arrange this with the Ministry of Health, but will have to pay extra.

[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] International Egg and Poultry Review: Ukraine’s latest antidumping investigation against the US and Brazil opened in March 2009, along with outbreaks of H1N1 and avian influenza in the US and the ensuing trade bans on US product might explain some of the differences. Despite the -19 per cent in leg quarter exports to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2009 from 2008, levels remain relatively close.

[La Vida Locavore - Front Page] Dear China, About the Poultry? Thanks But No Thanks: The veil of secrecy that surrounded the early H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in the PRC and the associated human illnesses and deaths from those outbreaks also points to a government that is less than transparent with its own citizens .

[Antiviral alternative] Anti-inflammatory herbal: Flu outbreak. Ginger, garlic can cause seizures, confusion, irritability, and auto immune system turns against some claims travelers shots and taken three meals, a swine flu vaccine is strong setback to motivate people treated using valuable nutrients the plant, drug which grew here regarding is more about their bodies, natural herbal remedy and undergoes clonal selection b lymphocytes also a cyanogenic glucoside.

[High Plains Journal: Ag News] Swine flu causing sweating and nausea in Washington, D.C.: "We've got no scientific evidence for this," according to Giordano, "We've got experts from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) the USDA and Homeland Security saying this but we've got the World Health Organization and World Organization for Animal Health, as well." Still, the markets tumbled and the public became more apprehensive.

[AboveTopSecret.com Hot Topics] SCI: How Could an Event in 1997 Cause a Pandemic in 2009? What ...: ...Viruses of the classical H1N1 lineage were virtually the exclusive cause of swine influenza (in the United States and Canada) from the time oftheir initial isolation in 1930 through 1998. Antigenic drift variants of these H1N1 viruses were isolated in 1991-1998, but a much more dramaticantigenic shift occurred with the emergence of H3N2 viruses in 1997-1998.

[ScienceBlogs : News] Birds in the News 171 : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist ...: Some officials say that more money is made smuggling birds and animals into the United States than any other product except drugs. Thousands of animals die in the trade.

[sterling furniture] cozy+acres+furniture: I was reading another blog ( www.weareintrouble.com ) and there was a post about a possible Scenario that got me thinking. Ok, I know that can be scary enough..lol.

[Peer Review on Science Blogs] Swine flu: what did you expect? : Effect Measure: It is often cheaper to transport the animals to the feed rather than transport the feed to the animals (USDA ERS2003). While this regional segmentation of production stages may cut down on short-term costs for the pork industry (Bur-rell 2002), the highly contagious nature of zoonotic diseases like influenza, perhaps made further infectious by the stresses of transport (Wuethrich 2003b), must be considered when calculating the true cost of long-distance live animal transport.

[LLRX.com - Legislative Research] Commentary: Biodefense and the Freedom of Information Act | LLRX.com: Our biosecurity will be better served if public disclosure of all information related to the activities, working groups, and advisory boards of the BARDA is mandated, except in special circumstances where the Secretary or Director determines that disclosure would be an obvious threat to our national security.

[Muck and Mystery] Muck and Mystery: NAIS: Since the beginning of 2006 Turkey has had 21 confirmed cases of human infection with the virulent H5N1 avian influenza. Of these, four have been fatal.

[Pet Connection Blog] Pet Connection Blog » Pet-loss recall: Why the numbers are so ...: I would like to add that it has now been 13 days since the official recall, although it was known before of a problem. 13 days and no new news from FDA or anyone other than possible rat poison but they dont know if thats true, where it came in,if anything else is affected etc.

[Stand Up For America] PigDookey”¦ The Swine Flu “Crisis” « Stand Up For America: On April 14, almost two weeks before the panic over Mexico’s cases of Swine Flu or as CDC now prefers, Influenza A H1N1, the US pharmaceutical company, Novavax announced a pre-clinical study allegedly showing, ”˜an investigational H1N1 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.’ The genetically-manipulated vaccine of Novavax, the company claimed, ”˜protected Mice and Ferrets Against the Spanish Flu and Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu,’ and also conveniently ”˜provided protection against highly pathogenic H1N1 and H5N1 Influenza strains.’16

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