Geese get revenge: Pate may cause rare disease
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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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WASHINGTON  - Researchers have reportedly discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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(Corrects fifth paragraph to say most geese in Hungary case were slaughtered, not killed by bird flu)
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A public-health doctor discovers that poor diet, not airborne microbes, is the cause of pellagra, a debilitating and often fatal disease. He's bucking the medical establishment, though, and his findings are not universally accepted.
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Vietnam has just faced two new outbreaks of bird flu which either killed or led to the forced culling of more than 850 fowls in the southern province of Ca Mau, the local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
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Blame it all on the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh. Ever since he started cultivating potatoes on his Co Cork farm over 400 years ago the Irish have had a strong weakness for the tuber which ...
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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain, fearing the disease could be carried by wild birds. The Netherlands was the first country over the weekend to order restrictions on commercial poultry since the outbreak last week on a turkey farm in eastern England of the H5N1 strain of the virus, which can be deadly for humans.
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A new study states that 60% of the genes in chicken have close relations to human DNA. This may not comfort those who frequently eat the creature, but may ponder this the next time they order a batch of chicken wings.
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is investigated in Hampshire.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing  the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in  Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said on Friday.
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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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Here&#39;s a news item on the discovery of a possible second case of mad cow disease in US cattle herds. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read &#39;Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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Cats could cause a pandemic of bird flu in humans, according to a new study. Research published in Science found that domestic cats can become infected with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus by feeding on infected
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In any serious US outbreak of avian flu affecting people, Delaware&#39;s huge chicken population would increase the risk of spreading the disease.