‘Passing the Buck’ Becomes Reckless ‘Conspiracy Blame Game’
Street checkpoint in Wuhan, China. Credit: UNVBy Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 2020 (IPS) Although Wuhan local authorities undoubtedly ostracized local medical whistle-blowers, notably Dr Li Wenliang, who suspected a new virus was responsible for flu-like infections in Wuhan in late 2019, official responses were apparently not delayed, and possibly even expedited, as the novel character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for Covid-19 infections, was not immediately self-evident. On 12 January this year, China publicly shared the genetic sequence for Covid-19 with the world. On 11 ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Crime & Justice Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Your Chicken Is No Longer Pink. That Doesn ’t Mean It’s Safe to Eat.
Next time you cook chicken, don ’t rely on the color of the meat to tell you if it’s cooked enough to avoid food poisoning.
Source: NYT Health - May 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JoAnna Klein Tags: Chickens Cooking and Cookbooks Food Contamination and Poisoning Salmonella (Bacteria) Meat Home Appliances Research Langsrud, Solveig PLoS One (Journal) your-feed-science Source Type: news

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 piglets he expected from his breeding operation. The crisis forced a decision that still troubles him: He ordered his employees to give injections to the pregnant sows, one by one, that would cause them to abort their baby pigs.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Farmers forced to euthanize livestock as coronavirus strikes food service industry
Poultry farmers in Delaware and Maryland say they are being forced to destroy 2 million chickens because there aren't enough healthy employees to process them. This follows a warning by the head of Tyson Foods, who said the nation's food supply chain is breaking down as the coronavirus sweeps through meat packing plants. Manuel Bojorquez has a look.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - April 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New York bistro owner finds lifeline in rotisserie chickens
What started as a popup venture before the coronavirus crisis can "became something that can grow" for the future.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - April 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

‘It’s a Bucket Brigade on a Five-Alarm Fire.’ Food Banks Struggle to Keep Up With Skyrocketing Demand
In a matter of five months, 47-year-old Aquanna Quarles saw her personal finances implode. In December, she totaled her car. In February, the car she replaced the totaled one with was stolen. And in early March, her kitchen flooded, destroying the food in her cabinets and the small appliances on top of them. Quarles remembers thinking, “Oh my God, like what else could go wrong?” Then the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States. In mid-March, the state of Ohio, where Quarles lives, began issuing stay-at-home orders, shuttering shops and businesses, and by the end of the month, the rest of the ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abby Vesoulis / Dayton, Ohio Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

No Space for Social Distancing in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Mohammad Rafique (right) and other refugee children gathered at the Rohingya market in Kutupalong camp to sell vegetables he brought earlier from a local market in this photo dated Mar. 11, 2020. This was two weeks before Bangladesh went into a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS By Rafiqul IslamCOX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) Nine-year-old Mohammad Rafique used to collect vegetables from Kutupalong Bazaar and sell them at a market inside Kutupalong camp, a camp of some 600,000 Rohingyas, in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. But nowadays he has to s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rafiqul Islam Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Coronavirus COVID-19 Rohingya Tales of the 21st Centur Source Type: news

The COVID-19 Cash Crisis: Will the UN Cease to Exist?
Credit: United NationsBy James A. PaulNEW YORK, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) The coronavirus pandemic has set off an unprecedented institutional crisis at the United Nations – funds are drying up, key meetings are cancelled and the world body is fighting for its future. The chief management officer of the world body, Catherine Pollard, wrote a dire memo on 1 April, setting out the breadth of the crisis, the depth of the financial shortfall, and the emergency steps to be taken immediately to head off ruin. This UN emergency comes as no surprise, since the pandemic has brought so many governments and institutions to the brink of co...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: James A. Paul Tags: Featured Global Global Geopolitics Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse TerraViva United Nations OPINION/NGO Source Type: news

We Need to Rethink Our Food System to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Once a dangerous new pathogen is out, as we are seeing, it can be difficult if not impossible to prevent it going global. One as contagious as SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to infect the whole of humanity. Eighty per cent of cases may be benign, but with such a large pool of susceptible hosts, the numbers who experience severe illness and die can still be shockingly high. So the only sensible answer to the question, how do we stop this from happening again, is: by doing all we can to prevent such pathogens infecting humans in the first place. And that means taking a long, hard look at our relationship with the natural world...
Source: TIME: Health - April 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Spinney Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

‘It Tortures Me That I’m Not There Helping.’ Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on the Fight Against COVID-19
In certain circles, Dr. Scott Gottlieb is famous for keeping a flock of seven chickens in his backyard–and for once retweeting a (fake) cover of the (real) magazine Backyard Poultry bearing his likeness. Under nearly any other circumstances, I would have begged to see said chickens the moment I started talking to the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. But in these coronavirus-dictated circumstances, I settled for talking with Gottlieb, 47, from Brooklyn, a socially distant 55 miles from his home in Connecticut–where, save occasional trips to Washington, D.C., he’s hunkered down w...
Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

Cats, Ferrets Susceptible to SARS-CoV-2: Study
Researchers report that dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks did not easily become infected.
Source: The Scientist - April 2, 2020 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, Chinese study finds
Feline transmission to humans not shown but infected pet owners warned to be carefulCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCat owners may wish to be more cautious about contact with their pets, as a study from China has revealed Covid-19 can be transmitted between cats.The team, at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute in China, found that cats are highly susceptible to Covid-19 and appear to be able to transmit the virus through respiratory droplets to other cats. Dogs, chickens, pigs and ducks were found to be unlikely to catch the infection, however.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 1, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Cats Medical research China UK news World news Infectious diseases Animals Asia Pacific Pets Dogs Science Health Source Type: news

The US keeps millions of chickens in secret farms to make flu vaccines. But their eggs won't work for coronavirus
Across the United States, prized chickens are laying life-saving eggs at secret farms.
Source: CNN.com - Health - March 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Millions of chickens are used to make vaccines each year. But that won't work for coronavirus
To prepare for annual flu seasons, as well as possible pandemics, the US government has invested tens -- if not hundreds -- of millions of dollars over the past 15 years to ensure there are enough eggs for vaccines.
Source: CNN.com - Health - March 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Egg prices triple in three weeks amid panic shopping
"There are only a certain amount of chickens laying a certain amount of eggs each day," a commodity analyst warns.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - March 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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