U.S. free of canine rabies virus
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Federal health experts declared a small victory against a fatal and untreatable virus on Friday, saying canine rabies has disappeared from the United States.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.
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Nobody can explain it, but Washington is almost certain to end the year as the only state in the contiguous United States apparently free of West Nile virus.
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The U.S. National Institutes of  Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using  animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for  research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
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Oct 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today ruled out using any of Chiron Corporation&#39;s influenza vaccine in the United States this year, following the completion of inspections at the company&#39;s plant in Liverpool, England.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats and their offspring is as safe as any other food.
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Restrictions are eased on animal movements in Wales and Scotland following the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
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Americans do not have to be afraid  of eating Canadian beef despite the discovery of Canada's  second case of mad cow disease, because both countries' food  safety rules "provide the utmost protections," the U.S.  Agriculture Department said on Monday.
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A 15-year-old girl has become the first person to survive rabies without prior vaccination. Jeanna Giese, who had been in a grave condition and on a ventilator for a month, is now in an intermediate care unit for intensive rehabilitation.
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Louis Pasteur's vaccine proves effective against what was then a fairly common -- and deadly -- occurrence: rabies contracted from an infected animal.
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China's quarantine authority said on Thursday it had found no diseases in eight mice discovered on an United Airlines flight from Washington.
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Chicago - A teenage girl has become the first known rabies victim to survive the disease without the benefit of a rabies vaccination, her doctors said.
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HEALTH - A Wisconsin girl is being called a medical miracle as she recovers from rabies. Fifteen-year-old Jeanna Giese is the first person in history to survive rabies without getting the rabies vaccine.
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A teenage girl, bitten by a bat, is the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors.
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A teenager who is the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination went home Saturday after nearly 11 weeks in the hospital.
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Chicago has seen an outbreak of a distemper virus that can be deadly to dogs -- 76 cases reported in Chicago since April, while none were reported last year, the Department of Animal Care and Control said Thursday.