Why Dogs and Humans Love Each Other More Than Anyone Else
This is excerpted from TIME How Dogs Think: Inside the Canine Mind, now available at retailers and on Amazon. You speak dog better than you think you do. You may not be fluent; that would require actually being a dog. But if you went to live in a dogs-only world, you’d be pretty good at understanding what they’re saying. You can tell a nervous yip from a menacing growl, a bark that says hello from a bark that says get lost. You can read the body language that says happy, that says sad, that says tired, that says scared, that says Please, please, please play with me right now! Think that’s not a big deal?...
Source: TIME: Science - July 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized onetime psychology Source Type: news

Pizza Hut pledges to drop some chicken antibiotics by 2022
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yum Brand Inc's Pizza Hut chain will fully phase out chickens raised with certain antibiotics in its U.S. restaurants by 2022, in the latest push by a major restaurant chain to follow healthier food practices.
Source: Reuters: Health - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

The Redomestication of Wolves
On landscapes around the world, environmental change is bringing people and large carnivores together--but the union is not without its problems. Human-wildlife conflict is on the rise as development continues unabated and apex predators begin to reoccupy their former ranges. Further complicating matters, many of these species are now reliant on anthropogenic, or human, foods, including livestock, livestock and other ungulate carcasses, and garbage. Writing in BioScience, Thomas Newsome, of Deakin University and the University of Sydney, and his colleagues use gray wolves and other large predators as case studies to explo...
Source: BioScience Press Releases - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Risk of pecking injury of the eye when children and chickens roam together - Ahmadzadeh A, Larsen M, Jacobsen N, Soliman W.
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Source: SafetyLit - June 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Researchers Discover Deadly New Pig Virus That Could Spread to Humans
(KDKA/CBS Local) – Researchers say they have identified a new pig virus that could be a threat to humans. The virus was found to easily make its way into laboratory-cultured cells of humans and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about potential outbreaks in people. Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus identified as porcine deltacoronavirus. Their study appears online in the journal PNAS. Scientists say the virus was first discovered in pigs in China in 2012. It was first detected in the United States in 2014 during...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Local TV talkers Source Type: news

Pig virus could pose potentially lethal threat to human populations
A Sars-like vomiting bug that infects pigs has been shown to jump between species including chickens, cats and humans, Ohio State University researchers have found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pig virus which is potential threat to humans has...
A Sars-like vomiting bug that infects pigs has been shown to jump between species including chickens, cats and humans, Ohio State University researchers have found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Flockmate or loner? Identifying the genes behind sociality in chickens
(Link ö ping University) Five genes that affect sociality-related behavior in chickens have been identified by researchers at Link ö ping University in Sweden. Several of the genes have been previously linked to nervous system function or behavior. The new study, which is published in Genetics, is the first that assigns these genes a role in sociality.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 3, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

UMD researcher discovers mechanisms and epigenetic markers with implications for diseases ranging from cancers to infertility
(University of Maryland) A UMD researcher uncovered new mechanisms that dictate the development of germline stem cells. Mechanisms were found to be associated with genes responsible for cancers and viral infections among other major diseases. Markers used to identify male germ cells were discovered, exploring how environmental factors or epigenetics affect these cells and providing significant insight into treatments for male infertility. Findings set the stage for chickens as a more prominent model organism for stem cell research.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Kent mother says baby son's 'hidden' unborn twin caused her cancer
Leanne Crawley, 38, from Orpington, Kent, had no idea she had been pregnant with twins until she was rushed to hospital six weeks after baby Louee was born.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Guardian view on medical dangers: evolution in action | Editorial
The emergence of new strains of bacteria which can resist antibiotics or digest processed foodstuffs in our guts shows the law of unintended consequences operates everywhereThefirst case anywhere in the world of a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all known antibiotics was reported late last month. The diagnosis was made in England, but it appears that the infection came from an encounter in south-east Asia. Antibiotic resistance is a global problem, and can ’t be confined to any one part of the world for long. Last autumn a woman died in the US of an infection apparently picked up in an Indian hospita...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 11, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Antibiotics Society Medicine Education Science Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology US news World news Source Type: news

Optimism remains in chickens in enriched environments despite exposure to stress
(Link ö ping University) Chickens that grow up in an environment that they perceive as more diverse and manageable, retain an optimistic view of life and cope with stress better than individuals that grow up in more sterile surroundings, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports. A team of researchers lead by researchers from Link ö ping University, Sweden, measured how optimism in chickens is affected by stress.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Do Backyard Chickens Need More Rules?
Drawn in by fresh eggs, or the possibility of feathered friends, people continue to flock toward backyard chickens. One researcher wonders if local laws are doing enough to keep people and birds safe.(Image credit: Emma Baker/Getty Images )
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Menaka Wilhelm Source Type: news

Mozambique:Ban On Import of South African Chicken Derivatives
[AIM] Maputo -The Mozambican authorities have banned the import of chickens and their derivatives produced by the South African companies Enterprise and Rainbow Chicken, following an outbreak of listeriosis in South Africa.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 7, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news

More Sanderson Farms Investors Support End of Antibiotic Use More Sanderson Farms Investors Support End of Antibiotic Use
More Sanderson Farms Inc investors supported a shareholder proposal this year urging the third-largest U.S. poultry producer to stop giving medically important antibiotics to healthy chickens for disease prevention.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medscape Today News Source Type: news

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