Agriculture Minister to lobby US on BSE
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Ottawa -- Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell is meeting with his US counterpart today in New York to lobby for an end to the costly mad-cow crisis, which began 15 months ago with the discovery of single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a ranch
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The Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to allow the importation of live cattle and beef from Canada despite two new cases of mad cow disease in Alberta.
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Campaigners today call for urgent tests on the nation's farm animals after the emergence of a new strain of MRSA which has spread rapidly among farmers in Europe, causing an array of serious infections.
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FARMERS are being invited to find out about con
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British government ministers have decided to back a campaign to introduce genetically-modified crops in the country, The Guardian reported in an early edition of its Monday paper.
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Canada&#39;s cattle and beef industries, battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win new access to the important US market by this spring under a plan
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Health Minister Michael McGimpsey says he is ready to hold a public inquiry into the C. diff outbreak.
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Agriculture. President Bush this morning nominated Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns to serve in that post. If the Senate confirms Johanns, he will replace Ann Veneman, who recently announced her resignation.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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The agricultural minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, was to face parliamentary questioning on a political scandal.
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By Anna Lognonn  THE NFU is backing a move to access extra cash for voluntary Farm Health Planning within the cattle sector.
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Nov 18, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said today it is running confirmatory tests on a possible new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
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South Africa's president called critics of his embattled health minister "wild animals" in a remarkable display of support for a woman decried by AIDS activists for advocating beets and garlic as remedies for the disease.
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The European Commission has approved a financial package to fight animal diseases in the EU. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and a range of other animal diseases that impact on animal and human health.
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Gordon Brown is to meet Pope Benedict XVI as he launches a scheme to promote vaccines in poor countries.
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Thailand and its chicken industry continue to deal with the effects from the spread of bird influenza. Last week, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra replaced his agriculture minister.
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Scotland is considering lobbying the  United States to lift a ban on haggis, hoping to boost sales of  the sheep-stomach-based national dish.