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Perdue Farms Signs Up For A Chicken Welfare Revolution
The poultry industry may be on the verge of adopting ambitious new animal-welfare standards, giving chickens more space and daylight, and even returning to older, slower-growing chicken breeds.(Image credit: Dan Charles/NPR)
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Charles Source Type: news
US imported chicken may come with health concerns
Liam Fox has dismissed health concerns about importing chlorine-washed chickens from the US after Brexit. He said there are bigger concerns for a good UK-US free trade agreement.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High levels of antibiotic-resistance in Indian poultry farming raises concerns
(Burness) A new study from India raises questions about the dangers to human health of farming chicken with growth-promoting antibiotics -- including some of the same drugs used in raising millions of chickens in the United States and worldwide.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Africa: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Updates On Avian Influenza H5N8 Outbreak in South Africa
[Govt of SA] The HPAI H5N8 virus was confirmed in two further locations in South Africa, bringing the total of affected properties to four. The new locations involved commercial layer chickens on farms in Gauteng and Mpumalanga.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 13, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Namibia: Local Chicken Safe Despite Bird Flu Outbreak
[Namibia Economist] Namib Poultry Industries spokeswoman Ashante Manetti said this week that despite an outbreak of the avian influenza virus, which was isolated in chickens in Mpumalanga, South Africa, local Namib Poultry products are safe to consume.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 12, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Three-Zone Biosecurity Offers New Hope to Indonesian Farmers
James McGrane, FAO ECTAD Indonesia Team Leader, at his office in Jakarta. Credit: Kanis Dursin/IPSBy Kanis DursinJAKARTA, Indonesia, Jul 10 2017 (IPS)Poultry farmer Bambang Sutrisno Setiawan had long heard about biosecurity but never gave serious thought to it, even when the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 forced him to cull thousands of his layer chickens in 2003 and 2009.Eighteen years into the business, however, Bambang, who is called Ilung by friends, is now converting his second farm into a three-zone biosecurity poultry with a strong conviction that it is the only way to save his business amid continued threat...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kanis Dursin Tags: Asia-Pacific Economy & Trade Featured Food & Agriculture Headlines Health Projects avian flu biosafety Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Improving the lives of rural populations: better nutrition & agricultu Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Nation On Wild Goose Chase for Source of Bird Flu
[News24Wire] Last month's outbreak of bird flu in Zimbabwe was likely triggered by domestic chickens or ducks, not wild or migratory water birds, a leading ornithologist says.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 5, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Bird Flu - Outbreak Leaves a 'Fowl' Taste in the Mouth
[Daily Maverick] The South African government has issued a national ban on the sale of live chickens. The ban follows an outbreak of the contagious H5N8 avian flu virus on at least two farms - both in Mpumalanga - where they will now have to cull thousands of egg-laying birds. But it's not just the large-scale chicken farmers who will feel the economic impact of the ban - sellers of live chickens on the streets of Soweto are also being hit hard. By BHEKI C SIMELANE.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 30, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Understanding scuba diving fatalities: carbon dioxide concentrations in intra-cardiac gas - Varlet V, Dominguez A, Augsburger M, Lossois M, Egger C, Palmiere C, Vilarino R, Grabherr S.
INTRODUCTION: Important developments in the diagnosis of scuba diving fatalities have been made thanks to forensic imaging tool improvements. Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) permits reliable interpretation of the overall gaseous distribution in t...
Source: SafetyLit - June 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Broiler Chickens are Healthier, but Producing Less Eggs - AARP
9 hours ago ... You might have noticed an uptick lately in chicken prices at the supermarket. And
thanks to a convergence of factors, that uptick might soon turn ...
Source: AARP.org News - June 22, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Avian Influenza - Govt Remains On High Alert
[The Herald] Government is in the process of mounting a risk based survey of the wild bird population to establish possible primary source of the Avian Influenza, with an external international specialist support team expected in the country this week for backup services. This follows an Avian Influenza outbreak early this month, which left thousands of chickens at Irvine's Private Limited's white meat and egg sub sector under quarantine.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 20, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Northwest Arkansas' Most Expensive Home Sales of 2016
The number of seven-figure homes sold in Washington and Benton counties almost tripled in 2016 compared with the previous year.
Twenty-seven homes in the two counties sold for $1 million or more in 2016. In 2015, only 10 homes sold at or above that price point, while 18 homes reached or surpassed the $1 million threshold in 2014.
Brandon Long, owner and broker at Weichert Realtors-The Griffin Co. in Springdale, said inventory of high-priced homes turned over much quicker in 2016 — and so far in 2017 — than it had in recent years.
“I think one of the reasons is there are more buyers for the homes,” L...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 19, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Fat Bottom Girl
“Left alone with big fat fanny She was such a naughty nanny Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me” – Brian May
The sticky, sweet smell of cotton candy combined with the stench coming from the animals, and mixed with the iron taste of diesel fuel. It was an odor particular to the carnival that she would never forget.
The word carnival has two meanings. First, according to Webster:
A period of public revelry each year that takes place before Lent; and second, A traveling amusement show.
Circus folks, whom I have interviewed extensively, are quick to point out the differences between them and carniv...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stop cuddling chickens because they may have salmonella
The CDC is warning people they should refrain from kissing and cuddling baby chickens because they can contract salmonella. Ohio has the highest number of cases of the bacterial infection.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CDC Warns: Don ' t Get Too Close To Your Chickens, Ducks, And Geese
Last year was a record for this disease. And this year is off to a flying start.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 3, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Contributor Source Type: news
