Investors renew push to get Sanderson Farms to cut antibiotic use
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sanderson Farms Inc shareholders have filed another proposal aimed at convincing the third-largest U.S. poultry producer to stop giving medically important antibiotics to healthy chickens for disease prevention.
Source: Reuters: Health - September 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Why You Should Think Twice About Playing With Puppies in a Pet Store
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Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanda MacMillan / Health Tags: Uncategorized animals campylobacter campylobacter outbreak Dog Dogs health risks pet diseases pet store outbreak Petland Pets public health puppies puppy puppy outbreak Source Type: news

Can you solve it? Try your cluck at these chicken problems
Two thousand years of fowl play has resulted in some truly eggcellent puzzlesHi guzzlers,Today I ’ve selected four puzzles about chickens, an animal which appears with curious frequency in the history of puzzles.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 11, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Arithmetic puzzles Logic puzzles Science Source Type: news

Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella
More than 900 people have contracted it from backyard poultry this year — the highest number ever — and the trend is expected to continue.
Source: NYT Health - September 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ANERI PATTANI Tags: Salmonella (Bacteria) Poultry Chickens Local Food Source Type: news

Volatile lipophilic substances management in case of fatal sniffing - Romolo FS, di Luca NM, Ciallella C, Bottoni E, Fiore PA, Cappelletti S, Giuliani N, Augsburger M, Varlet V.
Death due to inhalation of aliphatic hydrocarbons such as butane and propane is a particularly serious problem worldwide, resulting in several fatal cases of sniffing these volatile substances in order to "get high". Despite the number of cases published, ...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Pet turtles blamed for multistate salmonella outbreak
First the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned us not to kiss or costume our chickens, now the agency is telling us not to pet or give turtles as gifts.
Source: CNN.com - Health - August 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

More salmonella cases tied to backyard chickens, ducks
More than 900 people in 48 states have been infected since the beginning of the year
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

McDonald's to cut global antibiotic use in chickens
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of the high value human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast-food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.
Source: Reuters: Health - August 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

McDonald's to start cutting global antibiotic use in chickens
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast-food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.
Source: Reuters: Health - August 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken and black rat to eastern Africa
The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime routes between the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
Source: University of Bristol news - August 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research; Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Arts, School of Arts, Faculty of Arts, School of Arts, Archaeology and Anthropology; Press Release Source Type: news

Philippines deploys troops to a second province to fight bird flu
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has deployed more troops to cull thousands of chickens one day after the farm ministry confirmed the spread of bird flu into a second province north of the capital, Manila.
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime trade routes between the 7th and 8th centuries AD. In a paper published today in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from nearly 500 bone samples.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Philippines reports first avian flu outbreak, to cull 200,000 birds
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will cull 200,000 chickens, quails and ducks after confirming the country's first outbreak of bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said on Friday.
Source: Reuters: Health - August 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Southern Africa: Zimbabwe, South Africa Lose One Million Chickens to Bird Flu
[The Herald] Zimbabwe and South Africa have lost over one million chickens to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), it has been learnt.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 8, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news

To honor his uncle ’s memory, young doctor wants to offer hope to those with cancer
When Razmik Ghukasyan received his acceptance letter to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, he and his family were ecstatic. But their celebration was cut short days later when his uncle was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.During his first year of medical school, Ghukasyan frequently accompanied his uncle, Partev Kolanjian, to oncology appointments at another hospital. He was disturbed by the impersonal way his uncle ’s doctors treated him, which differed sharply from what Ghukasyan was learning at UCLA about the importance of a compassionate doctor-patient relationship.“In school, I was taught to de...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

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