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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

BOTULISM, AVIAN - USA: (MICHIGAN), SUSPECTED (ProMED Mail/ 11/02)

UGA helping efforts to move poultry litter better (Georgia Faces/University of Georgia/ 11/01)

Meat ban lifted in UK (Food Production Daily/ 10/04)

Africa: Swine Fever Spreads From Georgia to Armenia (allAfrica.com/ 10/03)

New foot-and-mouth case suspected (BBC News/ 9/24)

Intensive meat production a danger to food supply, warns FAO (Food Production Daily/ 9/17)

Poultry innovations give breathing room in summer (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 8/30)

SALMONELLOSIS, (SCHWARZENGRUND), PET OWNERS - USA (MULTISTATE) (ProMED Mail/ 8/29)

EU allows Britain to resume nearly all meat exports (Reuters Health/ 8/23)

BRUCELLOSIS, HUMAN, ANIMALS - BULGARIA (HASKOVO) (ProMEDMail/ 8/21)

Poultry farms take action to combat Campylobacter (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 8/06)

Learning from animals (International Food Safety Network/KSU/ 6/05)

Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine Developed by USDA ARS Scientists (Federation of Animal Science Societies/ 6/01)

Food Safety Fears Over Animals Fed To Animals (The Poultry Site/ 6/01)

UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE, PORCINE - CHINA (06) (ProMED Mail/ 5/29)

Scientists find bird flu antibody (BBC News/ 5/29)

FSIS Seeks Comments on Agency Decision-Making During Investigation Into Animal Feed Containing Melamine (USDA/FSIS/ 5/25)

System improving life, profits in chicken houses (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 5/24)

Probiotics Help Produce Safer, Healthier Chickens, Researchers Discover (The Poultry Site/ 5/21)

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Detected in Water Near Swine CAFO (Environmental Health News/ 5/18)

We are what they eat (The Baltimore Sun/ 5/17)

No More "Foul "Air From This Chicken Coop (USDA/ ARS/ 5/10)

China issues draft rules for pig slaughterhouses (Reuters Health/ 5/09)

China Tells Little About Illness That Kills Pigs, Officials Say (The New York Times/ 5/08)

FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, OVINE FETUSES (ProMED Mail/ 5/08)

UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE, PORCINE - CHINA (03) (ProMED Mail/ 5/08)

Scientists Conclude Very Low Risk to Humans from Food Containing Melamine (USDA/FSIS/ 5/07)

Animal identification system will work (MeatNews.com/ 5/07)

Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice (Newswise/ 5/03)

Menu Foods Expands Its Pet Food Recalls, FDA Reports 2.7 Million Chickens Fed Contaminated Feed Already in Food System (American Veterinary Medical Association/ 5/03)

Australia to run traceability exercise (MeatNews.com/ 4/27)

China admits tainted food link (USA Today/ 4/27)

Additional hog farms placed on quarantine, restricted lists (American Veterinary Medical Association/ 4/26)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - USA (SOUTH DAKOTA) (ProMED Mail/ 4/26)

Unauthorised GM in rice protein for animal feed (Food Standards Agency/ 4/26)

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, LIVESTOCK - MONGOLIA (ProMED Mail/ 4/25)

FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - VIET NAM (07) (ProMED Mail/ 4/25)

Hog Farms in at Least Five States Quarantined Amid Melamine Contamination Fear (American Veterinary Medical Association/ 4/24)

China Sets Its Lawyers On Animal Disease (The Poultry Site/ 4/24)

California pig farm quarantined (MeatNews.com/ 4/23)

Study into Salmonella in pigs (MeatNews.com/ 4/23)

FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, BOVINE - KAZAKHSTAN (KARAGANDA): SUSPECTED(ProMED Mail/ 4/20)

FASS Food Safety, Animal Health, and Animal Drugs Scientific Advisory Committee Annual Meeting with the Regulatory Agencies (Federation of Animal Science Societies)

Defra publishes final epidemiology report into the Suffolk avian flu outbreak (DEFRA/ 4/19)

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, LIVESTOCK - INDONESIA (NUSA TENGGARA TIMOR) (02) (ProMED Mail/ 4/17)

New Issue of "Healthy Animals" Now Online (USDA/ARS/ 4/16)

Help to implement BSE feed ban (MeatNews.com/ 4/16)

Flame Retardants Harm Mammals Eating Fish (Newswise/ 4/13)

Veterinary scientists explore poultry virus as cancer cure (The Poultry Site.com / 4/10)

Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports (EurekAlert!/ 4/09)

22 Brands of Dog Biscuits Are Added to Pet Food Recall (The New York Times/ 4/06)

North Korea should remain on FMD alert (MeatNews.com/ 4/05)

Contagious Plague Kills Animals in Karamoja (allAfrica.com/ 4/03)

FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, BOVINE - NORTH KOREA (P'YONGYANG-SI) (04) (ProMED Mail/ 4/03)

Likely low-path bird flu found in W. Virginia-USDA (Reuters Health/ 4/03)

BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE - KAZAKHSTAN (ProMED Mail/ 4/02)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - CANADA (SASKATCHEWAN) (02) (ProMED Mail/ 4/01)

AVIAN INFLUENZA (63): KUWAIT, PAKISTAN (ProMED Mail/ 4/01)

Scientists Hope Vigilance Stymies Avian Flu Mutations (The New York Times/ 3/27)

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FATAL, BOAR - NEPAL: TRICHINELLOSIS SUSPECTED (ProMED Mail/ 3/19)

Recall of Pet Foods Manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc. (FDA/ 3/17)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in Spain and Sweden due to consumption of wild boar meat contaminated with Trichinella britovi (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Veterinary College Offers Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course (University of Tennessee/ 3/15)

FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, BOVINE - NORTH KOREA (P'YONGYANG-SI) (03) (ProMED Mail/ 3/15)

JOHANNS SIGNS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH UNITED NATIONS' FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR GENERAL DIOUF (USDA/ 3/14)

Kenya: Meat Eaters Tuck in As 32-Day Ban On Livestock Trade Lifted (allAfrica.com/ 3/14)

FMD controls agreed (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

Canada’s BSE risk assessed (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

Investigation into case of H-type BSE (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

ANTHRAX, PORCINE - RUSSIA (ORENBURG) (ProMED Mail/ 3/12)

HAND, FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - SRI LANKA (COLOMBO) (ProMED Mail/3/11)

OIE says US a mad cow 'controlled risk' country (Reuters Health/ 3/09)

FMD vaccination for Turkey (MeatNews.com /3/09)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - UKRAINE (IVANO-FRANKOVSK) (ProMED Mail/ 3/09)

AVIAN INFLUENZA (51): RUSSIA,VIET NAM, CHINA (ProMED Mail/ 3/09)

Cloning safety to be investigated (MeatNews.com /3/09)

Suffolk bird flu outbreak: final restrictions to be lifted (U.K./Defra/ 3/09)

AVIAN INFLUENZA (50): INDONESIA (CATS), AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, SOUTH KOREA (ProMED Mail/ 3/08)

Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning (EurekAlert!/ 3/08)

EU to look at cloned meat safety (BBC News/ 3/08)

Some question chicken safety (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / 3/08)

Chicken feed may present arsenic danger (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / 3/08)

EU emergency veterinary team to be established (Europa / 2/27)

At Issue: Veterinary Care in Rural Tennessee (The University of Tennessee / 2/23)

E. coli bacteria migrating between humans, chimps in Ugandan park (University of Illinois / 2/22)

Projected Serious Food Supply Veterinarian Shortage Poses Threat to Industry, Society (American Veterinary Medical Assocation /6/5)

AAHL keeps new and emerging diseases in check (CSIRO / 5/16)

Tackling the Animal-to-Human Link in Illness (New York Times / 3/25)

Tennessee Researchers Develop Diagnostic Test for Johne’s Disease in Cattle (University of Tennessee / 3/24)

Faster emergence' for diseases (BBC News / 2/20)

SCHAKOWSKY URGES PASSAGE OF BILL TO INCREASE VETERINARY INFRASTRUCTURE, PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH (American Veterinary Medical Association / 11/17)