Health
Gamifying safety helps teens prevent farm injury
The Calm Your Farm game, created through a UNSW Sydney-led research collaboration, increases knowledge and awareness about farm safety.
Nov 27, 2023
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News tagged with farm
Oncology & Cancer
On a stretch of gravel road, families ravaged by cancer question nitrate
Cancer ravaged Brian Bennerotte's body and those of many around him—his father, five brothers and his sister—as well as others along the gravel road where they grew up in southeast Minnesota.
Oct 5, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Could mink farms be the source of the next flu pandemic?
Urgent action is needed to address the significant risk posed by fur farms for the emergence of future viral pandemics, Imperial scientists warn.
Jul 20, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Farm stressors affect mental health of adults and adolescent children
Agriculture is a stressful occupation, and farmers face substantial mental health challenges. Research indicates they often experience higher levels of anxiety and depression compared to the general population, but less is ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bird flu detected in 2 poultry workers in the UK; no transmission between people
Two poultry workers in the U.K. have tested positive for bird flu, but they had no symptoms and there's no evidence of transmission between people, the Health Security Agency said Tuesday.
May 16, 2023
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Health
Climate change raising heat risks for workers, experts warn
Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of workers dying or becoming disabled from laboring in extreme heat, an international conference has been told.
May 10, 2023
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Health
No more nuggets? School lunch goes farm-to-table—for some
As the fine-dining chef at a suburban high school gave samples of his newest recipes, junior Anahi Nava Flores critiqued a baguette sandwich with Toscano salami, organic Monterey Jack, arugula and a scratch-made basil spread: ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ecuador reports human infected with bird flu
Ecuador reported on Tuesday its first case of a human being infected with bird flu, weeks after the globally-spreading disease was detected on poultry farms in the South American country.
Jan 11, 2023
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Health
Study shows farmworkers in California's Eastern Coachella Valley lack the means to advocate for improved health
A University of California, Riverside study performed in the Eastern Coachella Valley, one of California's top agricultural production regions, has found that farmworkers there lack information and the means to advocate for ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Uganda reports worrisome increase in Ebola cases in capital
Ugandan officials have reported 11 more cases of Ebola in the capital since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote part of the East African country.
Oct 24, 2022
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Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food (produce, grains, or livestock), fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation or a company. A farm can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare to several thousand hectares.
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