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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

Federal shutdown helps disease race from gamecocks to egg barns

January 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Deadly exotic Newcastle outbreaks were all but ignored even before U.S. President Donald Trump furloughed most of the government personnel who could have responded             RIVERSIDE,  California–– Pleading for urgent attention to the recent spread of exotic Newcastle disease from southern California cockfighting flocks to commercial egg barns,  Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) moderator […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Donald Trump, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garland, Tim Lundeen

The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas

December 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it:  you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer,  you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Norway, Russia, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Dropkin, Bob Berwyn, Johan Olofsson, Jon Georg Dale, Mariska Te Beest, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garlan

Disease linked to cockfighting menaces California poultry industry

September 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Gamecocks carrying Newcastle disease to domestic flocks killed millions in 1971 and 2003             LOS ANGELES––The billion-dollar-a-year California poultry industry is betting the farm that state and federal authorities can get a two-year series of outbreaks of Newcastle disease under control before it becomes the biggest threat to profits in decades. An outbreak discovered in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Brad Miller, Eric Sakach, John Clifford, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Pam Marino, Steve Hindi

Death of Florida 6-year-old reminds that bat rabies can strike anywhere

January 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Humans & bats evolved to live in frequent proximity, yet rarely meet. That keeps us both safe.             ORLANDO,  Florida––The January 14,  2018 death of Ryker Roque,  6,  at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando,  just 20 minutes from Disney World and half an hour from Walt Disney’s Wild Animal Kingdom,  came as […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Bats, Caribbean, Central America, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Mexico, Rabies, South America, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Henry Roque, Jeanna Giese, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Roque, Pablo Beldomenico, Rodney Willoughby, Ryker Roque

Hunting, controlled burns & brain rot

July 1, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Prescribed cure may accelerate the spread of a deadly disease          If a contagious and deadly brain rot spread by deer and elk threatens people who eat venison,  can controlled burns that boost deer,  elk and moose populations slow the spread of the illness? The controlled burn prescription,  advanced by Colorado State University immunologist Mark […]

Filed Under: Canada, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Deer & other horned species, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Lab animals, Sheep & goats, The Americas, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Aimee Ortega, Andrew Nikiforuk, Carl Zimmer, Mark Zabel, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton

Reindeer are the presents for remote Yamal herders

December 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Gift reindeer may help for a while,  but global warming dooms the herding way of life          YAMAL PENINSULA,  Siberia––Reindeer did not deliver presents to 45 families of herders on the remote Yamal Peninsula of Siberia at Christmas Eve 2016,  but rather were the presents. The reindeer were sent to help the Yamalo-Nenets residents recover […]

Filed Under: Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Top, Food, Hooved stock, Meat issues, Norway, Reindeer, Russia, Scandinavia Tagged With: Gazprom, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Santa Claus, Tatiana Vasilieva, Yamalo-Nanets

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

How BAWA beat the dog-cullers in one Bali banjar

July 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Stopped extermination drive             GIANYAR, Bali, Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association on July 3, 2014 claimed a small victory for vaccinating dogs against rabies and educating the public in Singapadu Tengah village, Gianyar regency, Bali. Responding to a June 26, 2014 directive from Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika, public officials “were scheduled to eliminate stray […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia Tagged With: BAWA, Made Mangku Pastika, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton

Threat to dogs from newly discovered rabies strain?

May 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Taiwan ferret badger rabies is new to science             TAIPEI, Taiwan––Can dogs incubate and transmit Taiwan ferret badger rabies? Would a mutant form of ferret badger rabies specific to dogs have the exceptionally long latency time that it apparently has in ferret badgers? If so, this could exponentially increase the threat of rabies from dogs. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Pacific rim, Rabies, Taiwan Tagged With: ferret badgers, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Sean McCormack

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