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Petting Zoos Can Lead To Bacterial Infection And Illness

...nging a stroller into the area, picking stuff like pet food off the ground. We also saw that 28 percent of the people who exited the petting area did not wash their hands, concluded Dr. Belflower. The authors recommend strict adherence to personal hygiene practices to safeguard against such risks....

Pet Project: Lifestyle Touch Ups for Senior Citizens and Their Beloved Pets

...kenly purchased the wrong animal chow for a senior pet that might be on a health-restricted diet. Designers are also looking at the creation of incentive-based toys for senior pets that can deliver a treat following a prescribed interval of exercise and play," Dorsa said. Other ideas revolve around hon...

Jordan: The Kingdom Untouched By Avian Flu

...cken and poultry products, decorative feathers and pet birds. The Agriculture Ministry also formed teams to monitor poultry farms, bird shops and areas frequented by migratory birds. Apart from these check posts were set up to monitor wetlands near the country's nine dams. All these measures yielded...

Chinese Chickens Banned In Hong Kong

...Kong banned the imports of live chickens and other pet birds from China. // The man is believed to have contracted the virus in Guangzhou, a busy city in the Guangdong province bordering Hong Kong and one of the territory's major poultry suppliers. He died Thursday, nine days after being hospitali...

Bird flu affects the export of poultry products to Sri Lanka and Nepal

...already stopped the import of poultry products and pet birds from countries affected by the virus. It has also stocked the anti Avian flu drug, Tamiflu, sufficient for treating 1,000 infected persons. The health officials have also been sent to Hong Kong to be trained in the use of a new technology in su...

Drinking and smoking increases risk of tissue rejection

...tirely new face after she had been attacked by her pet dog last year. It was very difficult for her to eat and communicate with others. The donor of the face was a 46-year old teacher who was brain dead at a hospital in Lyon. Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, who headed the surgery team, said that smoki...

Pet Dogs Also Require Exercise

...riveau, a Purdue University veterinarian says that pet animals also require regular exercise like human b...ording to him.// He went on to add that 25% of the pet cats and dogs suffered from obesity. 'Obese dogs have an increased prevalence of heart disease an...

Elderly People Prefer The Company Of Pet Dogs

...med that lonely elderly people seek the company of pet dogs rather than fellow human beings. As many as 37 elderly people were surveyed // in the survey, and most of them preferred 30 minute visits from dogs rather people. As a part of the study, half of the senior citizens spent time alone with a dog, w...

Face transplant woman has new graft

...of a donor after being horrifically injured by her pet dog. Pioneering surgeons then watched amazed as the new face came alive, turning pink as soon as Isabelle’s blood flowed into it. A 50-strong team of medics in Amiens, northern France, worked for 15 hours to perform the transplant. Now doctors mus...

Pak Ban On Poultry Imports From 17 Countries

...commerce ministry Tuesday also placed captive live pet and fancy birds on the list of banned fowl. The ban would not apply to the import of de-sugared or de-glucosed whole-egg powder from China, the order said. (IANS)...

Childhood Asthma Can Be Kept Under Control By Cost-Effective Home Based Interventions

...hma symptoms and included dust mites, cockroaches, pet dander, rodents, passive smoking and mold. The environmental interventions were tailored to each child's sensitivity to the selected allergens and evidence of exposure to these asthma triggers. Participants received educational home visits that inc...

Rats dream about running mazes...

...ts understand how the human mind works. Most pet owners know that their pets can dream. They would have actually seen their pets suckling and kicking in their dreams. But not everyone knows that rats can dream and that scientists have actually managed to enter their dreams //to the point where they...

New findings come to light about monkeypox

...orted in US where the people got infected from the pet dogs that had carried the virus home from other animals. Researchers for the study had suggested that evidence points out to the strain of virus that had traveled half the globe came from West Africa. This was one of the less virulent virus strains ...

New gene therapy for Alzheimer’

...ment in the rate of cognitive decline. Also serial pet scans had showed significant increases in cortical 18-fluorodeoxyglucose after treatment. Brain autopsy from one patient showed good improvement in cells in response to nerve growth factor. The research was featured in the journal The Lancet...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

...ans." Other scientists who have studied SARS say pet owners shouldn't overreact, however. "These animals in all likelihood did not play a significant role in spread of (SARS) to humans," said Dr. Klaus Stohr, the World Health Organization's chief SARS scientist. Researchers discovered the vulnerabili...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

... A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. "Shadow is now one of history's most valuable dogs," said Venter, founder and leader of one of the two teams that first sequenced the huma...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

... A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. "Shadow is now one of history's most valuable dogs," said Venter, founder and leader of one of the two teams that first sequenced the huma...

Canine Painkiller unveiled by Novartis

...untry in the first year. The company is banking on pet owner appeal to make this new drug a success....

Frozen food invite food poisoning

...cold meat. Recent contact with animals, especially pet dogs and cats, was another source of risk....

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