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Not Just ‘Bird’ Flu Anymore- Avian Influenza Strikes Cas

...dika, a virologist at Udayana University, surveyed pigs and domestic animals in Bali between September and...there has been reports about the virus in cats and pigs in Indonesia, but has no details. "Informally, there's information that bird flu infection in cats w...

A Transplant in Time - Scientists ID Window for Tissue Transplant

...ect them. By taking spleen tissue from embryonic pigs over the course of gestation, they found that the harmful T cells are not present in the tissue prior to day 42 of gestation. The scientists also found that tissue of this age exhibits optimal growth potential as well as secreting factor VIII, the bl...

China Issues Bird Flu Alert Following Outbreak in South Korea

...reak in two weeks,with 236,000 chickens as well as pigs and dogs culled. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are all relatively close to South Korea. The agriculture ministry said the outbreak poses a serious threat to China as the two countries are located on the s...

Pig Stem Cells Show Promise in Repairing Animals’ Heart Attack Damag

...m cells were extracted by tissue biopsy from eight pigs whose main arterial blood supply was tightened for more than two hours, duplicating the effects and damage caused by heart attack. Using techniques developed in Marbán’s lab, researchers extracted about a million cardiac stem cells from undamaged ...

A New H3N1 Virus Identified In Pigs In South Korea

H3N1 swine influenza virus in domestic pigs has been identified by scientists in South Korea –...ses. The virus, which was first identified in U.S. pigs during 2004, is not generally transmissible between birds and humans. Earlier this year, in the mo...

FMD tests at abattoir

...arted. Restrictions were lifted after the tests on pigs proved// negative at the Cheale Meats slaughterhou...been lifted on the slaughterhouse and the farm the pigs originated from.” YT...

New, Minimally-Invasive Surgery for the Morbidly Obese

... Surgery was performed on the gastric walls of two pigs with an endoscope. Using grasping forceps and T-tag sutures, the defects were sequentially closed. The closure proved immediately successful with gastric distention with air insufflation and no evidence of subsequent additional air or infection withi...

Longer-Lived Rodents Have Lower Levels of Thyroid Hormone

... Mice live to about three and a half years; guinea pigs live to six years; Damara mole-rats to 15 years; and naked mole-rats to 28 years. The animals were of different ages, but at comparable points in their life spans. For example, the mole-rats, which live 28 years, were two years old. The mice, which...

U.S., Australian Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Deadly Viruses

...ah virus killed more than 100 people and a million pigs in Malaysia in 1999, while the Hendra virus killed two Australians and 16 horses in Australia's northern state of Queensland in 1994-95. Both viruses are carried by fruit bats in nature and have alarmed scientists with the ease in which they jump fro...

Foot and Mouth Disease within Control

... heart muscle. It can infect cattle, goats, sheep, pigs and antelope. According to the spokesman for the agriculture department if an outbreak was allowed to spread, it would pose a serious risk to the country’s herds and wildlife. However he said that the outbreak detected near Punda Maria was within...

Abdomen Can Help In Gas Exchange In Lung Failure

...to deliver oxygen. They tested the system in adult pigs that were put to sleep and ventilated with low concentrations of oxygen to simulate lung failure. Using this technique, they observed an increase in arterial oxygen saturation (the actual percentage of blood that's carrying oxygen) from 73% to 89%. D...

Goat’s Milk One of the First Transgenic Food That Benefits Human

...k. This milk altered the intestinal flora of the pigs and goats which were fed with the milk. Hence the ...n-transgenic goats was fed to the control group of pigs and goats. The pigs were chosen because they have a digestive system similar to humans and are often...

Drug Trial Proves Nightmare for British Indian Student

...e day of the trial, he was the third of the guinea pigs to be injected with TGN1412. It was 8.30 a.m. and he started suffering headaches but was told not to worry. By 9.15 a.m., he felt pressure in his skull and in his back. He says he was given paracetamol for the pain. By 10.00 a.m. he was slipping in...

Japanese Encephalitis Epidemic Kills 15 in Assam

...ba Ojai told IANS. The disease, transmitted from pigs through mosquitoes, strikes during the peak breeding period from April to September. Encephalitis causes inflammation of the brain tissue, producing symptoms of high fever, headache, rigidity of the neck, and loss of voice and involuntary movement ...

'Pig Fever' Detected in Kerala

...r had been diagnosed and was the cause of death of pigs at a private farminwayanad//. This is believed to...country. "Pig fever was ascribed to the death of pigs by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Uttar Pradesh after samples were send to them," said ...

Transplanted Pancreatic Tissue Could Help Diabetics

...se. However, embryonic tissues, such as those from pigs (in which the insulin-producing cells are similar ...y first implanted embryonic pancreatic tissue from pigs into mice that lacked an immune system of their own, but had human immune cells injected into them. ...

Electrosurgery Ensures Integrity Of Cochlear Implant Following Adenoids Removal

...my in CI recipients. Twelve frozen 40 – 50 pound pigs and 12 cochlear implants with superficial defects were used for the experiment. After thawing the pigs, the cochlear implants were placed unilaterally via a standard transmastoid approach. Saline was infiltrated into the cochlea and middle ear to ens...

Foot and Mouth Raises Its Ugly Head in Vietnam

... say that only a small portion of the cattle// and pigs are affected by the disease. "The situation is un...r." It is estimated that nearly 30,300 cattle and pigs have got sick because of the disease. This has caused a flutter in the already affected agricultur...

Chancroid Vaccine shows Promise for Control of AIDS

...nsmission of HIV as well. Experiments conducted in pigs with this vaccine have shown to prevent or reduce ...f the bacteria, Haemophilus ducreyi and vaccinated pigs on days 1, 21, and 42. The researchers tested the pigs three weeks later with Haemophilus ducreyi. ...

WHO Officials Investigating Eight Suspected Bird Flu Cases

...further check livestock such as chicken, ducks and pigs there," he said, adding that all suspected victims were members of a large family. Till date Indonesia's toll from H5N1 virus is 25. Most of the victims are from the same family and officials are examining whether the virus has mutated into a form ...

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