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Disease, warming oceans, rock lobster and sea star populations
2016-02-16 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Two new Cornell University studies show how diverse marine organisms are susceptible to diseases made worse by warming oceans. The first study warns that warm sea temperatures in 2015 may increase the levels of epizootic shell disease in American lobster in the northern Gulf of Maine in 2016. The second provides the first evidence linking warmer ocean temperatures with a West Coast epidemic of sea star wasting disease that has infected more than 20 species and devastated populations since 2013....
Experimental Test detects signs of Lyme disease early.
2016-02-16 14:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
An experimental method developed by federal and university researchers appears capable of detecting the Lyme bacteria at the earliest time of infection, when currently available tests are often still negative. Collaborators from NIST, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine recently reported the successful first trial of their new method. Team suggests approach might also be useful for early detection of other elusive bacterial infections.
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NPPC Calls For Foot and Mouth Disease to be Made a Priority
2016-02-16 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Citing the seriousness of the disease and the devastation it could cause the US livestock industry, the National Pork Producers Council has urged congressional lawmakers and the Obama administration to make dealing with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) a priority.
Science responds to globalized disease threat to farms and food systems
2016-02-13 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Farmers and consumers around the world are connected and dependent on each other today in a way that is unprecedented in human history - the average chocolate bar will have ingredients from four or more continents and crop failures in Russia affect the price of bread in the US. Transnational research collaboration between the US and UK is anticipating and protecting our food supplies from a host of new disease threats to crops, animals and humans and which show no respect fo…
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Are We Prepared for Foot and Mouth Disease?
2016-02-11 23:51:40| National Farmers Union
By Katie Fisher, government relations intern, National Farmers Union The Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture held a hearing this morning about foot and mouth disease. National Farmers Union members place a tremendous amount of emphasis on maintaining domestic animal health. NFU even adopted a special order of business on animal disease protection at its
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