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CDC Finds Some Bird Flu Strains Have Acquired Properties That Might - Medical News TodayThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released results of a study suggesting that some North American avian influenza A H7 virus strains have properties that might enhance their potential to infect humans as well as […]

Death rate for flu, pneumonia fell sharply in 2006 - Centre For Infectious Disease Research and PolicyJun 12, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that the death rate in the United States dropped significantly from 2005 to 2006, led by a 12.8% decline in mortality related […]

Brucellosis case rattles ranchers - MissoulianPOLSON - As if he didn’t have enough to worry about Tuesday, a June snowstorm knocked out the electric fences on cattleman Harold Hughes’ Glacier Red Angus Ranch. That, at least, he can fix. There isn’t much Hughes and other Montana cattle ranchers
‘National effort’ urged on floods […]

The Bright Side of Bird Flu - Egypt TodayI RECEIVED AN EMAIL last month from Gabriel Mikhail, author of the splendid Egyptian Wilderness: A Quest for Conservation. It took the form of an appeal sent to a vast list of people involved in the environment and conservation movements in Egypt
Indonesia will stop […]

Preserving the past and the future - Star-GazetteBrandishing homemade bows and arrows, the tribe aimed at the airplane. The images of Amazon Indians wearing red body paint and defending their territory looked like pages from a history textbook. However, the pictures were taken in May. Last week
Online Letters to the Editor for […]