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Walls, boar purges, & no-man’s-land fail to stop African swine fever

January 18, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Wild boar to blame for only 1% of outbreaks, Chinese learn             PARIS,  France––Donald Trump is not the only world leader who has yet to learn that walls don’t work––not if the goal is really to keep a foreign threat out,  as opposed to presenting the appearance to a political base of doing something drastic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lithuania, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Ukraine Tagged With: Donald Trump, Frank Fang, Merritt Clifton

Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors

September 3, 2015 by Merritt Clifton

Pigs can get Ebola,  but do they spread it? KAMPALA,  Uganda;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans,  though no one knows for sure yet,  warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Lab animals, Liberia, Lithuania, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poaching & trafficking, Russia, Science, Slaughter, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Arnon Shimshony, Christine Atherstone, International Livestock Research Institute, Merritt Clifton, PED, ProMED-mail

Lithuania advised against plan to kill 90% of wild boars to fight African swine fever

March 21, 2014 by Merritt Clifton

VILNIUS,  Lithuania––The European Food Safety Authority on March 17,  2014 reported that a Lithuanian government plan to fight African swine fever by killing wild boars has little or no chance of success. “No evidence was found in scientific literature proving that wild boar populations can be drastically reduced by hunting or trapping in Europe,”  the European […]

Filed Under: Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Other, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: Lithuania, Merritt Clifton

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