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Poisoning by fruits similar to blackberries

...own quantity of black berries from a plant growing wild in the region around Perpignan, France. One half hour after ingesting the fruit, the child began to vomit dark material and presented a drunken-like state. The child was taken to a general practitioner who called the Poison Control Center in Marseill...

Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell

...e had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=4641 <br...

India Has The Oldest And Largest Collection Of Preserved Mosquitoes – Mosquito Museu

...,000 mosquitoes, plague-hit rats, guinea worms and wild birds infected with Japanese Encephalitis. The museum is the oldest and largest such collection in South and Southeast Asia, formally set up in 1938 and still used in fighting killer disease outbreaks. Scientists and researchers from all over the wor...

Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany

...za. Amid fears that avian influenza has spread to wild birds in Europe, a German laboratory was testing Tuesday the remains of the dead geese. Stefan Bent, head of the state animal inspection office, said 20 scientists were assigned to urgently discover the cause of death. The results of the tests are ...

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister ban import of poultry from Macedonia and Croatia

...th experts maintain that indiscriminate culling of wild migratory bird populations would be ineffective in... Croatia as Croatia discovered the H5 flu virus in wild dead swans last week and tests are pending on whether it could be the virulent H5N1 strain that can ...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

...humans, In the avian form, the disease is borne by wild birds, especially ducks, and so it may be difficult to contain the spread of the disease. The first cases of humans being infected by the strain of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in January 2004 in Thailand and Vietnam....

Chiron Corporation Gets US Contract To Produce Bird Flu Vaccines

...humans, In the avian form, the disease is borne by wild birds, especially ducks, and so it may be difficult to contain the spread of the disease. The first cases of humans being infected by the strain of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in January 2004 in Thailand and Vietnam....

Kerala Government is in High Alert for Bird Flu

...rain H5N1 that can kill human beings, but this the wild bird from China has decided to fly some other route and spare India from its destination. But, there are chances that these birds can reach India. This red alert is high in Kerala as this place is a very favored place for migratory bird during winter...

Bird flu vaccine from wild bird flu strain

...in of Bird flu virus which has been collected from wild birds which has killed wild and migratory poultry and birds in Mongolia under the directive of World Health Organization (WHO). ...

Enzyme Linked To Spread Of Skin Cancer

...ted system so the FAK protein can make the cell go wild when it's inappropriately active," she said. The researchers note that the increased levels of the enzyme were responsible for the cancer invading healthy tissues. When they halted the FAK activity in certain aggressive cancers, the researchers found...

Salmon Fish Benefits: Which Kind Is Better?

...he benefits of farmed (mostly Atlantic salmon) and wild salmon fish// (mostly pacific salmon). Farmed sa...ny consumers have a choice between farm-raised and wild salmon. A recent study compared the cancer and non-cancer health risks of exposure to the pollutan...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

...Bird flu basically is the viral flu that occurs in wild birds as well as domesticated ones including chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Normally, this condition is confined to the bird population and will not infect humans. But lately, these viruses have found a way into Homo sapiens and since 1997 have caused...

Bird Flu Alert In Jammu And Kashmir

...hat may be polluted with diseased or dead infected wild birds. People have also been warned to ensure that birds are not killed in wetlands, water bodies or anywhere in inundated paddy fields, local village ponds or in water logged areas. People have also been requested to avoid illegal trade of any n...

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

...best bet in severing the transmission link between wild and tame birds. Bird Flu dominates summit: The bird flu threat loomed large at the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that began Friday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard urged countries to put aside 'national pride or self...

Bird Flu: India faces threat from China this winter

...at from China in the forms of migrating birds like wild duck and fowl spreading the deadly avian flu virus this winter.// "These wild ducks and fowls are natural reservoirs of avian flu and unlike chicken, they don't die of it. When t...

Experts Building Bird Flu Warning System

...arn countries and communities about the arrival of wild birds that could be infected, and the local authorities could issue advice to those in areas at risk. According to Britain's Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight, the system would also enable experts to recommend that farmers move poultry away from key ...

Infectious Diseases of the Wild to grow

...people travel more and have increased contact with wild life, says a scientist.//Of the pathogens causing infectious diseases, 75 percent are zoonotic that are able to transmit from animals to humans, writes Andrew Cunningham of the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London in an article in...

Bird Flu Alert Sounded In Tamil Nadu

...f contact that may occur between domestic fowl and wild birds. A word of caution has also been issued to watch out for symptoms of bird flu infection ranging from restlessness, swollen head and wattle, bluish comb and haemorrhage in the legs. A report has been issued against wildlife hunting practices, ...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...ean peninsula. This follows more than one-thousand wild and domesticated birds having been found dead. In order to limit the spread of the outbreak quarantine has been established around affected areas. Chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks were among the birds found dead over the past three days. Maria M...

India should increase precautionary measures against Bird flu

...from china due to spread from migratory birds like wild duck and fowl as these wild ducks and fowls are natural reservoirs of avian flu and unlike chicken, they don't die of it and whe...

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