Pests and Pestilence
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Are common cockroaches carriers of disease?
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HIPPOS and other animals in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Katonga Wildlife Reserve in western Uganda are dying of anthrax. The commissioner in charge of livestock health in the agriculture ministry, Nicholas
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Gaborone - The outbreak of anthrax in Botswana&#39;s Chobe National Park had claimed the lives of 265 animals, but was now subsiding, an assistant director in the Department of Wildlife said on Friday.
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Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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WEDNESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Pesticides and head injury can both bump up risks for Parkinson&#39;s disease, European researchers report.
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PALANGAKARAYA, Indonesia  - It used to be malaria that gave people fevers in Indonesia's remote, mosquito-infested peatlands.
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NEW YORK  - Exposure to pesticides increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease somewhat, researchers report.
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15/10/2004 - UK food watchdog warns this week it will bump up prevention actions for food pathogens as salmonella cases are on the rise, but contamination focus on Spanish eggs seems likely.
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USING pesticides on house plants could more than double your risk of developing a brain tumour, a study suggests.   Those who use fly sprays, weedkillers and other chemical treatments on their pot-plants are 2.25 times more likely to develop brain cancer, the findings show.
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Forces deny responsibility for musteline black op British forces in the lively Iraqi city of Basra are denying claims they are responsible for a "plague" of "vicious badger-like creatures which have attacked livestock - and even humans", the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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You may have heard of the nematode, that microscopic gelatinous worm in your garden soil, but did you know that four out of every five living creatures on Earth is a nematode? The whole bloody planet is crawling.
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A strain of a common bug with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest it may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of disease in parts of the United
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Science & environment: A rare but highly infectious outbreak of Q fever being investigated after 28 people in Gloucestershire contract bug spread by livestock.
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A PLAGUE of locusts has swarmed into Israel across the border from Egypt, threatening to devastate fields of crops in the countryâs agricultural heartland.
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If malware were insects, botnets would be termites -- they burrow in behind the walls of your security perimeter, lie dormant for a period of time, then attack.