ACA Enrollment May Reopen In The Wake Of The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic
It seems the Trump administration ’s chickens have come home to roost regarding their December attempts to deter ACA enrollment in November and December of last year.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 22, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Clary Estes, Contributor Source Type: news

Image of the Day: Wonderchicken
A newly discovered fossilized skull is between 66.8 million and 66.7 million years old and bears similarities to modern-day chickens and ducks.
Source: The Scientist - March 20, 2020 Category: Science Tags: Image of the Day Source Type: news

Don ’t Blame China. The Next Pandemic Could Come from Anywhere
The northern side of Chatuchak Weekend Market feels a bit like Noah has hit hard times and decided to offload the entire contents of his Ark. In wooden cages, bright-plumed fighting cocks squawk and peck. Around the corner are snakes in plastic takeout containers, prices scrawled on them in sharpie. Hairless squirrel kits snooze in a pile as a meerkat and giant iguana gaze on. A pygmy monkey leaps about with a furious scowl, perhaps indignant at the 30,000 baht ($950) price tag fixed to his enclosure. Across the narrow alleyway, a lynx prowls restlessly within its cage. “He’s 250,000 baht [$7,900],” says ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Campbell / Bangkok Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk overnight Source Type: news

New tiny 44 million year old bird fossil links Africa and Asia to Utah
(Midwestern University) A new species of quail-sized fossil bird from 44 million year old sediments in Utah fills in a gap in the fossil record of the early extinct relatives of chickens and turkeys, and it shows strong links with other extinct species from Namibia in Southern Africa and Uzbekistan in Central Asia.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 3, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Nigeria: No Coronavirus in Broiler Chickens - NCDC
[Daily Trust] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has debunked a rumour being shared on social media that the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) can be spread through broiler chickens.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Czech authorities to cull nearly 140,000 birds at poultry farm where bird flu was detected
Czech authorities will cull nearly 140,000 turkey and chickens at a poultry farm where bird flu was detected, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman said on Monday.
Source: Reuters: Health - February 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

A Bigger Impact in a Smaller World: The China Situation
People wear face masks in the waiting area at China's Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. Credit: UN News/Jing ZhangBy Fairuz AhmedNEW YORK, Feb 3 2020 (IPS) We are now living in a hyper communicative world where news does travel faster than lightning. Boundaries, borders, geographical and time differences have become next to obsolete in today’s speed driven world. At any point in time people, news and local occurrences can influence internationally without much local isolation. Along with the advantages of technology, communications and connections world is also facing new challenges that are proportionally evolving ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fairuz Ahmed Tags: Asia-Pacific Economy & Trade Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Study: Pig virus is easily transmitted among chickens and turkeys
(Ohio State University) The first animal study of a pig virus' potential to jump to another species shows that the virus, once introduced to a select group of birds, is easily transmitted to healthy chickens and turkeys.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Saving Mountain Chickens
Peek inside the effort to save this critically endangered Caribbean frog species.
Source: The Scientist - January 13, 2020 Category: Science Tags: Videos Source Type: news

Educational video could improve the welfare of millions of broilers
The welfare of millions of broiler chickens could be improved thanks to an educational video to help farmers identify and encourage positive welfare in broilers. The video has been created following collaborative work by The Co-op, their chicken supplier, Two Sisters Food Group, and research partners the University of Bristol and FAI Farms.
Source: University of Bristol news - December 23, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: International, Research; Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Veterinary School; Press Release Source Type: news

Gadget of the Year: The Toaster Oven
They keep getting smarter and more powerful. We compared an internet-connected toaster oven and an old-fashioned one side by side.
Source: NYT Health - December 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brian X. Chen Tags: Cooking and Cookbooks Ovens and Stoves Bakeries and Baked Products Cookies Chickens Bagels Computers and the Internet Brava Wolf Source Type: news

This is what it takes to be a gold medal sprinter | Dina Asher-Smith
The attention after winning gold in Doha was amazing – but success really begins by staying focusedI love being the hunter. The one in pursuit. In training, I ’ll latch on to the boys and chase them down. Even when I was younger, I tended to race girls who were older than me – at 17 I was racing 30-year-olds. It’s where I’m comfortable. But the hunter can go on to become the hunted. And this summer at theWorld Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, I won gold in the 200m. At 23, I became the first British woman to win a world championship sprinting title.I had no idea there was so much excitement back in the UK ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: As told to Candice Pires Tags: Dina Asher-Smith Olympic Games Athletics Psychology Sport Science Running Health & wellbeing Life and style Source Type: news

Bird flu outbreak reported at Suffolk farm - are you at risk of becoming infected?
BIRD flu has been confirmed on a farm in Suffolk and to limit the risk of the disease spreading a one-kilometre exclusion zone has been set up and nearly 30,000 chickens will be culled. Also known as avian flu, what ’s the risk of humans becoming infected?
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bird flu identified in Suffolk
27,000 chickens will be culled at a commercial chicken farm in Mid Suffolk where disease identified Related items fromOnMedica Pandemic flu death toll could be 15 times higher More investment needed to prevent new pandemics Texting can improve flu jab uptake Adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine best option for over-65s UK population took fewest steps to prevent spread of swine flu
Source: OnMedica Latest News - December 10, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Farmers Feed ARVs to Livestock for Quick Returns
[New Zimbabwe] Lupane -Veterinary doctors across the country have made sensational claims that some farmers were feeding Anti Retroviral (ARVs) drugs and antibiotics to livestock especially chickens to make them grow faster.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 28, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

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