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Japan's government on Friday gave itself new powers aimed at curbing the outbreak of infectious diseases, as the country nervously watches the spread of deadly H7N9 bird flu in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-japan-anti-flu-powers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:10:01 EST news284960636 The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on Thursday said H7N9 bird flu posed an "exceptional situation" as the outbreak among Chinese poultry claimed a 10th human victim. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-animal-health-agency-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:10:01 EST news284896583 (AP)—Mexico's animal health agency says a bird flu outbreak at seven farms in central Mexico has affected as many as 582,000 chickens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mexico-bird-flu-outbreak-chickens.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:24:26 EST news280200250 Controversial research into the H5N1 virus, more commonly known as bird flu, is set to recommence, after it was delayed in 2011 following a request from the US government. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bird-flu-lab-year-long-debate.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:36:40 EST news278238992 Most remaining laboratory stocks of a devastating cattle disease should be destroyed to ensure the eradicated virus is not back into nature, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-lab-stocks-eradicated-cattle-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:54:34 EST news274351827 The technology used to develop a new vaccine as an aid in the prevention of clinical disease caused by Hendra virus in horses has been licensed from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) by Pfizer Animal Health, a multinational animal health company with expertise in the discovery, development and manufacturing of innovative vaccines. The new vaccine, called Equivac HeV, is now available for use in Australia. The vaccine's availability was announced today during a news conference held by Pfizer Animal Health in Brisbane, Australia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hjf-global-team-equine-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:20:15 EST news270987597 Health workers in Nepal on Monday culled hundreds of chickens and destroyed eggs following an outbreak of bird flu in the capital Kathmandu, a government official said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-nepal-culls-chickens-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:30:28 EST news269508620 A new highly-toxic strain of the potentially deadly bird flu virus has appeared in Vietnam and is spreading fast, according to state media reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-vietnam-highly-toxic-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:50:07 EST news266223000 The United Nations food agency on Tuesday warned that an outbreak of African swine fever in Ukraine could pose a risk for animal health in the region as a whole despite swift moves to limit its spread. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-swine-fever-outbreak-ukraine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:10:02 EST news264765349 (Medical Xpress) -- A group of Kansas State University researchers has made valuable findings in the search for cancer's cure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-game-changer-animal-health-ways-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:15:20 EST news264226483 Eight million chickens have so far been slaughtered in Mexico and 66 million more were vaccinated in a bid to contain a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country, authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-mexico-mn-chickens-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:43:56 EST news263616229 Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-million-poultry-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:26:30 EST news261195979 The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-declares-bird-flu-emergency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:52:57 EST news260473965 Vietnam may have contained the fatal bird flu outbreak that raged in the late 2000s but it is still struggling with new cases of the disease that have puzzled experts in the communist country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-vietnam-lingering-bird-flu-threat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:53:28 EST news252391995 (Medical Xpress) -- A new type of rabies virus has been discovered in Tanzania by scientists from the University of Glasgow and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-rabies-virus-tanzania.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:04:12 EST news250772631 (AP) -- Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bird-flu-menace-asia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:35:04 EST news248675695 When Samantha Lowe's 12-year-old Labrador retriever needed anti-inflammatories to ease her arthritis, she found herself facing the same question humans face when it comes to prescriptions: Name-brand drug, or generic? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-advancing-lucrative-pet-drug.html Medications Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:20:54 EST news229004371 Romping through summer fields seems like a harmless pleasure for dogs, horses and humans alike. But just one bite from the wrong tick can rob an animal of that pastime. The bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi catch rides with certain species of ticks and can cause Lyme disease in animals the ticks bite. Catching the disease early is paramount because it becomes progressively harder to fight as the bacteria conduct guerilla warfare from hiding places in the joints, nervous tissues and organs of their hosts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-lyme-disease-treatment-horses-dogs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:43:46 EST news227504583