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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is spreading fast in Massachuse...te is entering its fourth year of battling Eastern equine encephalitis activity, and officials hope the state is at the end of the current outbreak cycle. ...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

... these macro-molecules. Other problems caused by equine obesity are heat stress, increased bone, tendon, a...chers discovered that only one documented study on equine obesity existed prior to this research, according to Thatcher. It was an owner-reported survey do...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...ocrine problems, including insulin resistance. The equine obesity risks have been less studied, but researchers believe horses have similar risks as humans, such as heart disease and diabetes. Obesity in horses also can cause laminitis, a painful condition that often affects the front hooves. The weight ...

Starting Time of Hormone Therapy may Augment the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

...e a hysterectomy who were randomized to conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) or placebo and 16,608 postmenopausal women who had not had a hysterectomy who were randomized to CEE plus medroxyprogesterone acetate (CEE + MPA) or placebo. Women age 50 to 79 years were recruited to the study from 40 U.S. clinical c...

United States Department of Defense Selects Ichor Medical Systems to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

... Maryland, in the development of a DNA vaccine for equine encephalitis. The current contract extends Ichor's...t Ichor and its technology will play a part in the equine encephalitis vaccine program at USAMRIID and look forward to continuing our collaboration with a top...

Researchers Complete Horse Genome Map

...ientists with a new set of tools for investigating equine disease, said the scientists at the Broad Institut...t the horse genome could not only help in studying equine health but also in researching diseases and genetic differences in human beings. He added that horse...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

... available in developing countries. To compensate, equine immune globulin derived from horse serum is used in many parts of the world, but it can carry significant side effects and is not an optimal product. To address the supply problems and side-effect issues, the CDC and MBL launched an effort to find ...

A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

... reduce the bio-terrorism threat of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. // Biomedical researchers at...ected with HIV, Watowich said, but since human and equine immune systems could quickly overwhelm VEE viruses that were unable to replicate, infections would b...

Another EEE case confirmed in Massachusets Boy

Massachusets third human case of eastern equine encephalitis this year has been confirmed in a nine-year-old Middleborough boy.// According to state health officials the boy is seriously ill and has been hospitalized. His parents identified him as John Fontaine. Middleborough was included in ...

Horse Sense: The Dublin Horse Show Shall Go On

...h is thought to have spread by the use of infected equine serum to treat another horse infection. The virus is not much of a danger to humans. Horses suffering this type of infection portray symptoms such as fever, minor hemorrhages in the mucous membranes, anemia, dependent swelling and death. Insects that...

New Cell Lines Cuts Down the Cost and Time in the Production of Flu Vaccine

...grow almost every type of flu virus: avian, swine, equine and human. In cell culture-based vaccine production, scientists infect cells with flu strains. Then they grow the virus in large vats or bioreactors. The virus is killed and purified to make the vaccine. Growing virus in cell culture could dramati...

Galloping Horse Disease

...ith the use of infected serum to treat a different equine disease. A spokesman from the department said “The department is also tracing those horses which, in the past three months, have passed through those farms on which the infected animals were located.EIA is a virus disease of horses which can cause o...

Two cloned mules, Compete In A Professional Race For The First Time Ever.

...that one of the mule, Idaho Gem, the world's first equine clone, had covered his 350-yard sprint in 21.246 seconds, and finished third while Idaho Star clocked 22.181 seconds and ended up seventh. The wining mule Bar JF Hot Ticket finished in 20.866 seconds. A crowd of over 1,000 people witnessed the event....

Passive Immunotherapy Could Prevent Avian Flu from Affecting Humans

...gment antigen binding (FAB) molecules derived from equine antibodies to the H5N1 hemagglutinin glycoprotein. In the first, they showed that the equine (horse) antibodies prevented the infection of dog kidney cells. In the second experiment, the resea...

Experimental Therapy Effective Against Malignant Melanoma in Horses

...ences and Pathobiology. "This research showed that equine melanomas respond to this therapy." Frankincense oil is an extract from fermented plants and has numerous chemicals like boswellic acid, which is a recognized anti-cancer chemical. However the exact mechanism by which the oil acts is not known. Conta...

For West Nile Virus: Prevention Is The Watchword

...e diseases threaten public health, such as Eastern equine encephalitis. Though rare, EEE kills nearly half of those who become infected. The most recent EEE epidemic was in North Carolina, where 26 cases were reported in 2003. This year four cases of EEE have been diagnosed in New Hampshire. Last year four ...

The Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

...he study investigators examined whether conjugated equine estrogen alone or in combination with progestin would reduce coronary heart disease events in mostly healthy women. Postmenopausal American women use CEE more frequently than any other hormone therapy.The estrogen-alone trial was halted because resea...

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