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Deadly Wuhan coronavirus may be pangolin’s best friend

February 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Pangolins carry a 99% identical coronavirus,  report Chinese scientists             GUANGZHOU, China––Will the Wuhan coronavirus,  newly linked to pangolins,  save one of the world’s most endangered animals? Headlines over the weekend of February 8-9,  2020 amplified global panic that the number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus deaths had soared beyond the 2003 toll from severe acute […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Cyranoski, Merritt Clifton, Shen Yongyi, Xiao Lihua, Zhang Jinshuo

Philippine mad dogs claim deadly revenge for being eaten

April 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Eradicating rabies requires ending dog-eating too          CAUAYAN,  Philippines––For the second time in three years a rabies outbreak linked to eating dogs has hit the western Philippines,  underscoring the importance of ending dog meat consumption if canine rabies is to be eradicated. The rabies outbreak was declared by the Negros Occidental provincial department of health […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Food, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Meat issues, Myanmar, Pacific rim, Philippines, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Basilio Ponce, Merritt Clifton, Ponciano Deogoro, Ressia Mae Edoria, Rolando Carmelita Jr., Tin Tin Myaing

Why the Oregon Zoo euthanized Packy the elephant

February 11, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Antibiotic-resistant asymptomatic TB strain had epidemic potential          PORTLAND,  Oregon––Oregon Zoo veterinary staff on February 9,  2017 euthanized Packy,  54,  the oldest male elephant in the U.S.,  after a multi-year losing battle against an antibiotic-resistant strain of the lung disease tuberculosis which had already killed two other Oregon Zoo elephants and infected seven zoo staff […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Southeast Asia, Spectacles, Thailand, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Ed Stewart, Marilyn Kroplick, Merritt Clifton, Pat Derby, Toni Frohoff

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

Did botched pre-Ramadan sheep shipment start an epidemic?

June 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Georgian officials deny disease outbreak ever occurred TBILISI, Georgia––How many sheep were casualties of a botched pre-Ramadan live transport from the nation of Georgia to Saudi Arabia and Jordan in late May 2015? The authentic toll might never be known. Exported for ritual sacrifice, the sheep instead fell ill in transit, were refused at several ports, […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid, Feast of Atonement, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ramadan

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

March 21, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“Has little or no chance of success” 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 […]

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: Arnon Shimshony, Daylis Alfonsas Barakauskas, Lithuania, Maris Balodis, Mary-Louise Penrith, Merritt Clifton

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