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Smuggling could also be a carrier to bird flu spread.

... increasing evidence that a thriving international trade in smuggled poultry — including live birds, chicks and meat — is helping spread bird flu. The (A) H5N1 bird flu virus is robust enough to survive not just in live birds but also in frozen meat, feathers, bones and even on cages, though it dies with...

Canada has the confirmed case of mad cow disease

...mpact this should have on our beef and live cattle trade with Canada. Based on the information currently av...te a change in the status of our trade." Canada's trade with the United States in cows younger than 30 months, as well as meat, resumed in July 2005 because...

Myanmar To Lift Ban On Poultry As Bird Flu Under Control

...ndalay, which is a very important historic hub for trade between India, China and Thailand. This decision seems to have unsettled the neighbouring Thailand, where bird flu has not re-emerged for months. Thailand said this week it was tightening surveillance along its porous border with Myanmar, fearing th...

India To Set Up A Faculty In Namibia

...zania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar. India's trade with SADC countries has more than doubled from $1.5 billion in 1997 to over $4 billion in 2004-2005. --Edited IANS...

Nutritious Beverages to be Sold in School

...Co as well as the American Beverage Association, a trade group. According to Ira Magaziner, chairman of the program board of the Clinton Foundation the agreement would covers more than 90 percent of the beverage industry. The agreement, alone, made one of the industry's critics, the Center for Science ...

Russia Bans British Poultry Products

...apan’s ban on British imports. Under international trade rules countries can impose a ban only when there i...cattle slaughtered after June 15, 2005. Government trade however reported that France and some other European Union states are yet to implement legislation t...

Insurance Plans after Graduation

... spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group in Washington, D.C talks about the insurance plans to the students. He says that the school-sponsored insurance is through the summer. In case of parents’ plan, then it will not cover the health expenditure as soon as one receives a diploma....

Shares Of AVI BioPharma Drops On Reports Of Disappointing Early Drug Trail

....43, or 33 percent, to $4.83, in the heavy morning trade on the Nasdaq. The Portland, Oregon based biotechnology company said that the results came from the second stage of a trial involving the antisense drug, called AVI-4065, among patients infected with the liver-damaging virus. Company officials have...

Link Between Immune System And Nervous System

... anti-nausea medication, aprepitant, which has the trade name Emend, might also block HIV infection. Because macrophages are a reservoir for HIV, a strategy that denies the virus entry into those immune cells may be important in combating HIV infection. Dr. Douglas showed in 2001 that another NK-1R antag...

High Demand for Weight Mgmt Product in European Pharmacies

...10, from Health Professionals, Journalists and the trade sector. Our extensive above and below the line marketing support for the launch of Slim 10/10, including National TV campaigns throughout the whole of the launch period, has created high visibility & awareness of the brand.’ Slim 10/10 was successf...

Brid Flu Threat May be a Cause of Concern for Years to Come: Experts

...th (OIE) said wild bird migrations and the illegal trade in infected animals play a key factor in spreading the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. 'The conference identified the gaps in our knowledge and provided us with better information on the situation,' said Joseph Domenech, FAO's chief veteri...

APEC Launches Bird Flu Exercise

...e APEC members account for 47 percent of all world trade and have atotal of 2.6 billion people. A number of them have been hit by humandeaths and economic losses from bird flu. At the end of the exercise, experts will give evaluations and summarise lessons as well as provide advice for improvement. Singa...

Drugs Part of Mumbai High Life

...p resurfacing. "They get back to their lucrative trade once they are out on bail oracquitted. After the arrest of actor Fardeen Khan in May 2005 for thepossession of cocaine, most drug peddlers have become cautious." According to sources in the Mumbai party circuit, both Rahul - the sonof late Bharatiy...

Pregnant women advised against canned tuna due to mercury poisoning!

...ocating the cause of Tuna the U.S. Tuna Foundation trade group put that it has a plethora of nutritional benefits as well. So it is up to the user how much info is good for them...

UK Government Plans On Tackling Health Service Deficits

...tals' income. Karen Jennings, head of health for trade union Unison, said that the recent financial difficulties have also left the NHS staff concerned about the future of patient care and their jobs, stating that she believes the NHS will continue to announce job losses and service cuts this year, she s...

Western Region Tops in Indian Biotech Growth

... sciences with the increase in the availability of trade skills and quality workforce. The number of returning scientists has been adding to the skill-base, thereby improving the standards of bio-manufacturing. The clinical data research is receiving more recognition. India's drug development path is impro...

Crackdown on drugs makes African students insecure

...s had led to youths from there to join the illegal trade for quick money. In 2005, 59 African nationals, including 41 Nigerians, were arrested in India on charges of drug peddling. (Source: IANS)...

PIL Raises The Issue Of Spurious Drugs

...e government be directed to take steps to curb the trade of such drugs. // The High Court has directed the state government to file a reply in this regard by July 12. The PIL was filed by Lakhpat Raj Mehta, who lost his son due to administration of spurious injection of the drug `Imipenam' at KEM hospit...

Outsourcing Medical Records Risky: Unison

UK's biggest trade union Unison has alleged that medical records of patients that are typed outside the country have many errors that could cost the life of a patient. //Many NHS trusts are outsourcing the work to countries like India to save costs, the union said. H...

World Cup Fans go for Patriotic Hairstyles

German hairdressers are doing roaring trade this World Cup with young men demanding "patriotic" hairstyles in the country's black-red-gold colours // . "Guys only dare to try unusual hairstyles when mass enthusiasm breaks out and there's some big event on like the Cup," observes Stefanie Koe...

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