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“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror

May 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders             BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet,  known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,”  generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests,  suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Bees, China, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Japan, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Sweeney, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Tam Garland

Mouse studies often don’t work,  NIH admits after landmark 10-year study

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March 2013)–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11,  2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Echoing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Biao He, Charles Calisher, Francis Collins, Gad Simon, Harald Schlatter, Jack Woodall, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Nick Jukes, Sue Leary, Wayne Pacelle

Yellow fever mosquitoes now killing at 10 times the rate of pit bulls

March 25, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Monkey killings contribute to disease outbreak death tolls in Brazil & India             RIO DE JANEIRO,  Brazil;  SINGHUDURG,  India––Panic-driven monkey massacres are contributing to human illness and death,  with yellow fever deaths up 60% since the end of fiscal 2017,  and could help to spark global epidemics,  warn Brazilian health officials. More than 718 Brazilians […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, South America, The Americas, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Fabiana Lucena, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Tom Youill

Jack Woodall, 81, the James Bond of animal/human disease prevention

October 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Cofounder of ProMED-mail          LONDON,  U.K.––Jack Woodall,  81,  perhaps the most influential person in the animal welfare field whose name almost no one involved in animal welfare recognized,  whose work helped to save countless human and animal lives,  died on October 24,  2016 in London,  England,  where he was under treatment for pancreatic cancer. Cofounder […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Science, Science, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Charles Calisher, Eskild Petersen, Jack Woodall, Larry Madoff, Martin Hugh-Jones, Mary Cranshaw, Stephen Morse

A 21-vaccination salute to the founders of ProMED

April 28, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Woodall & Hugh-Jones receive highest honors in veterinary epdidemiology Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases cofounder Jack Woodall and Martin Hugh-Jones,  who was among the ProMED founding moderators,  have been separately selected to receive two of the highest honors in veterinary epidemiology.  Hugh-Jones is on July 15,  2016 to receive an honorary fellowship from the British Royal […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Rabies, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Calisher, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

More medical warnings link dog meat to rabies

March 18, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

13 people ate meat from a rabid dog MANILA––Philippine, Chinese, and international public health media in mid-March 2015 warned that eating dogs can spread rabies, after at least 13 people ate meat from a rabid dog in Cabatangan village, Zamboanga, the Philippines. Summarized Robert Herriman of Outbreak News Today on March 15, 2015, from reports […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Philippines, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Herman Wertheim, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail, Robert Herriman, Shamsudeen Fagbo, Zamboanga

Global response to ANIMALS 24-7 debut

April 15, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            ANIMALS 24-7 officially launched at 2:27 a.m. on April 12,  2014.  Reader response began arriving from around the world just nine minutes later. From India: Great effort,  Merritt!  All my best wishes,  as always. ––Debasis Chakrabarti,  founder Compassionate Crusaders Trust,  Kolkata,  India <animalcrusader@gmail.com> Editor’s note:             Debasis Chakrabarti’s 2003 essay […]

Filed Under: Letters, Opinions & Letters Tagged With: Debasis Chakrabarti, Jack Woodall, Jill Robinson, Shamsudeen Fagbo

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