Mystery ailment strikes honeybees
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A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.
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A bacterium closely related to bugs that cause gangrene, tetanus and food poisoning could help to beat cancer.
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.
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By SUSAN GALLAGHER HELENA, Mont. - Firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge, authorities said Wednesday: bees. The blaze that started with lightning on Aug. 22 has forced hundreds to evacuate.
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A swarm of bees that attacked a work crew earlier this month may be of the Africanized variety, which would mark the furthest north the so-called "killer" bees have traveled in the United States, scientists said.
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The agent that transmits mad cow and  related diseases may spread further in the body of an animal  suffering from certain illnesses, scientists said on Thursday.
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A mystery syndrome is wiping out the pollinating bees and leaving Florida's crops in peril.
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Geese force-fed and then slaughtered for their livers may get their final revenge on people who favor the delicacy known as foie gras: It may transmit a little-known disease known as amyloidosis, researchers reported on Monday.
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The bird flue-like disease is killing chickens in Indonesia&#39;s Central Java, but a local officialsaid on Tuesday the symptoms shown were not as same as that of thebird flu.
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NEW YORK  - Honeybees could be keeping a  cornucopia of anti-cancer compounds in their hives, early  research in mice suggests.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate in 24 states, threatening the production of numerous crops.
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A tiny pest is decimating honeybee colonies across the country, worrying beekeepers and farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops.
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The 36-year-old Illinois woman who died last month after being treated with an experimental gene therapy was infected with a fungus that usually causes only a mild illness. But the infection spun out of control and ravaged her organs, suggesting that her immune system was seriously impaired, said...
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Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
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A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in the collapse of honey bee colonies across the United States, researchers reported Thursday.
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One bee disease, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, seems strongly associated with the beekeeping operations that experienced big losses.