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US Beef Protest Draws Close To 80,000 In South Korean Capital
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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US Beef Protest Draws Close To 80,000 In South Korean Capital - The Huffington Post
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president said Wednesday that his government will make a fresh start, hours after an estimated 80,000 people gathered in the South Korean capital in the largest demonstration yet against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.
Escaped tiger kills visitor at San Francisco zoo
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
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A revenge killing for being caged? IT MAKES YOU WONDER?
Escaped tiger kills visitor at San Francisco zoo
SAN FRANCISCO — A tiger killed a man at San Francisco Zoo and badly injured two teenage brothers on Tuesday, a year after an employee was mauled by a tiger at the park, according to local news reports.Radio station KCBS said the tiger attacked the unidentified 23-year-old man at the throat while he was in a cafe with his two friends, aged 19 and 18.
The brothers, also unidentified, were taken to San Francisco General Hospital, with cuts and slashes all over their bodies, KCBS said. They were in “stable but critical condition,” said Lt. Ken Smith, a spokesman with the San Francisco Fire Dept.
China’s pig epidemic under control - official
Monday, October 29th, 2007
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China’s pig epidemic under control - official
China has brought blue-ear pig disease under control, Gao Hongbin, vice minister of agriculture, said at a press conference held here on Monday. The disease, which has been on the decline since it peaked in June, has been checked within all the epidemic outbreak areas, he said. By October 25, the highly pathogenic disease, also known as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, had infected 310,134 pigs in 1,030 epidemic outbreaks in 304 counties of 26 Chinese provincial areas, of which 81,030 died and 235,380 were culled, he said. The dangerous husbandry disease can be fatal for pigs and is highly infectious. There is no effective cure to it, but vaccinated pigs are immune. The disease does no harm to human beings. China has been carrying out a vaccination program and has tightened supervision on the transportation, trading and slaughtering of pigs to combat the disease, said Gao. The epidemic has caused pork supply shortage and fuelled price rises in recent months, which resulted in a 6.5-percent increase in the consumer price index in August, an 11-year high.
Rising temperatures are threatening the future of turtles
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
Rising mercury a threat to turtles
Rising temperatures are threatening the future of turtles, which need to be exposed to an average of 30 degrees Celsius during incubation to hatch eggs successfully. Published on October 3, 2007 The temperature of incubating eggs determines the sex of baby turtles, and they cannot lay any eggs if the temperature is above 34 degrees, said Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre’s Marine Endangered Species Unit. “This hurts the breeding ability of the turtles.” Kongkiat also raised concerns about the effects of global warming on the turtles.
China willing to share animal disease info
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
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China willing to share animal disease info Updated: 2007-09-22 18:43 BANGKOK — China is ready to share information and experience with the international community on animal disease surveillance and control regarding either bird flu or the blue ear pig disease, an official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. FAO animal health expert Vincent Martin said in an interview with Xinhua on Friday that he did not agree with some Western media reports, which suggested the Chinese government was reluctant to report PRRS outbreaks and unwilling to share information on the disease, found so far in China and Vietnam, with the international community.
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