Canine distemper outbreak causes moratorium on dog adoptions
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CHICAGO An outbreak of canine distemper disease has prompted the city of Chicago&#39;s animal control department to start a 30-day moratorium on giving away dogs.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jan. 30--TWIN FALLS -- The Endangered Species Act's list of vulnerable plants and animals soon will become one species shorter when wolves are pulled from the register in about a month.
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Restrictions are eased on animal movements in Wales and Scotland following the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
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Hundreds of vaccination clinics scheduled across the Washington region were canceled abruptly yesterday as public and private health officials struggled to respond to the nation's loss of 48 million doses of influenza vaccine.
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Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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Australian authorities cancelled thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the iconic outback Birdsville races, as the nation's first outbreak of equine flu spread.
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Some animal movement limits set after the foot-and-mouth outbreak are eased, despite a seventh case being confirmed.
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The newborn unit of a main public hospital was closed indefinitely Tuesday after a bacterial outbreak killed six infants in two days, health officials said.
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An outbreak of a contagious rash called herpes gladiatorum among Minnesota high school wrestlers led the state to suspend matches and halt contact practices, authorities said on Wednesday.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.
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Around this time last year, Josie the dog had a broken back, a dislocated hip and internal injuries. A veterinarian suggested putting her to sleep. Instead, the Twedt family decided to skip Christmas presents and use the money to pay Josie's medical bills.
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Baxter International Inc. on Thursday  said it halted a late-stage European trial of a flu vaccine  because of higher-than-expected rates of fever and other  symptoms.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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CNN reports that some states in the Southeast, concerned over chronic wasting disease, which is to deer what mad cow disease is to cattle, won&#39;t allow reindeer to cross state lines even for Christmas exhibitions.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - A bill that would have made California the first U.S. state to mandate neutering and spaying of dogs and cats was withdrawn by its author on Wednesday in the final legislative stages after fierce opposition from dog breeders.