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Lumpy skin disease––what’s that?––hits cattle from Africa to Nepal

September 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Lumpy skin disease––yes,  it’s ugly––also set Australia & Indonesia at odds for months. KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Best known as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama,  the Buddha,  circa 564 B.C.,  and as the land of Mount Everest,  the world’s tallest mountain,  Nepal during the summer of 2023 gained a more sinister distinction as ground zero for arguably the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Buddhism, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Israel, Live transport, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arjun Poudel, Beduram Bhusal, Gadhi Mai, Jarod Hanson, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, Rastriya Samachar Samiti, Sneha Shrestha

Birds killing cats? Avian flu hits cats in Poland, FIP hits cats in Cyprus

July 17, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

FIP rages.  Avian flu outbreaks among cats are few,  but hint at increasing vulnerability of mammals to bird diseases NICOSIA, Cyprus;  WARSAW,  Poland;  HELSINKI Finland––Potentially catastrophic disease outbreaks hitting cats in Cyprus and Poland,  and farmed foxes in Finland,  have epidemiologists worried about emerging mutant strains of feline infectious peritonitis,  a coronavirus best known as […]

Filed Under: Behavior & health, Birds, Cats, Chickens, Disease, Dogs & Cats, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Food, Global, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poland, Poultry, Wildlife Tagged With: Danièlle Gunn-Moore, Dinos Ayiomamitis, HPAI H5N1, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, ProMED, Sarah Newey

Who to blame for animal diseases killing humans? Report says it’s U.S.

July 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Harvard Law School and NYU Center for Environmental & Animal Protection deliver a shocker for most Americans (but not for you!) “For many Americans,  concepts such as ‘bushmeat’ or ‘wildlife farming’ seem foreign,”  opens Animal Markets & Zoonotic Disease in the United States,  “but they refer to practices that are common within the United States […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Captive animals, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Deer & other horned species, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Judaism, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Markets & Zoonotic Disease in the United States, Chronic Wasting Disease, COVID-19, Ebola, Harvard Law School, Merritt Clifton, New York University, ProMED

New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated

November 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

International Journal of Infectious Diseases affirms what ANIMALS 24-7 has reported since 2012 GUANGZHOU,  Guangdong,  China––ANIMALS 24-7 was right all along that “official” estimates of human deaths from rabies are inflated by magnitudes of order. The truth,  the whole truth,  and nothing but the truth about how and why the Global Alliance for Rabies Control,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Ghana, India, Indian subcontinent, Niger, Pakistan, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Hui K. Gan, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William F. Harvey

Mad dogs & rabies follow Englishmen out of India

July 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Global Alliance for Rabies Control still says there are at least 120 times more rabies deaths than found by 18 years of annual body counts          NEW DELHI,  India––Mad dogs and rabies are finally following Englishmen out of India,  approximately 165 years after an 1857 New York Times report indicated that the disease had apparently […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Politics, Population control, Rabies, Science, Street dogs Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Eskild Petersen, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William Harvey

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Life-or-death difference: rabies-infected,  or rabies-suspected?

May 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Verifying alleged outbreaks is critical to effective control & prevention             TABANAN Regency,  Bali,  Indonesia––Rabies-infected,  or rabies-suspected? That is the question that Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases moderator Arnon Shimshony and Shamsudeen Fagbo,  a leading Saudi-based One Health and animal rights advocate,  took up in mid-May 2022,  responding to recurring alleged rabies flare-ups in Bali,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Population control, Rabies, Science, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bali, Dauh Peken Village, Merritt Clifton, One Health, ProMED, Shamsudeen Fagbo, Tabanan Regency

(How) does salmonella grow on trees? Answer: it doesn’t, by Karen Davis, Ph.D.

February 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But new findings confirm that COVID-19 and salmonella outbreaks––and most other zoonotic diseases––share a common source  Editors’ note:            On January 31,  2020,  two years plus a month ago,  United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis contributed the first ANIMALS 24-7 coverage of the global COVID-19 pandemic,  Wet markets or Walmart? Animal consumption & the coronavirus. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry Tagged With: Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, Kristian Andersen, Merritt Clifton, Nature News, ProMED

Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan”

July 4, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part II of a 5-part series   (See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & money talks,  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals and Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.)          LONDON,  U.K.––Quipsters have it that Brexit,  as the June 23,  2016 choice of United Kingdom […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Pacific rim, Pigs, Politics, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, CIWF, Jill Phipps, Julia Lewis, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, RSPCA, Sean McCormack

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

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