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Warming climate begins to taint Europe's blood supplies
2013-09-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A whole new set of ungovernable pathogens are being loosed on the world's blood supplies. A warming climate has allowed blood-borne tropical diseases to flourish where once they were unheard of, and they're getting around. The state of blood supplies became worrisome after tennis star Arthur Ashe's death from AIDS 20 years ago in 1993 -- the result of an HIV-tainted transfusion administered during a routine heart bypass operation in the late 1980s. Hospitals and blood banks now routinely screen...
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Workshops on Entire Male Pigs and Boar Taint
2013-09-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SPAIN - Surgical castration has long been used to prevent boar taint in meat from entire male pigs but the procedure is subject to a voluntary ban in the EU from 2018. Workshops are being organised to address the issues of meat production from boars and on detection methods for boar taint.
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Aarhus University Sheds Light on Boar Taint
2013-07-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
DENMARK - Research assistant Martin Krøyer Rasmussen has received a scholarship from the Villum Foundation for a one-year postdoctoral research visit to the Montpellier 1 University in France.
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