Farmers 'must meet disease costs'
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The cost of future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth may have to be met by the industry, farmers are being told.
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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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JOHANNESBURG, June 22 -- Global health officials on Friday called for a quadrupling of spending to combat highly lethal, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis spreading through Eastern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.
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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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Thousands of deaths could be prevented each year if tax was added to a range of foods, a study says.
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A committee of AM finds the foot-and-mouth outbreak may have cost farmers millions despite not reaching Wales.
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MONCTON - A dairy farmer in northern New Brunswick says the price of milk and other dairy products should reflect reality. Dairy farmers across the country will find out in the next month or so whether they can charge more money for their milk.
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For the first time, the federal government has proposed placing responsibility for preventing food-borne illness on farmers rather than on consumers.
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Non-profit groups developing new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more than &#36;1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on Friday.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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New threat for Britain's farmers as bluetongue disease joins foot and mouth as menace to livestock.
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Asian countries need half a billion dollars more to combat a possible bird flu pandemic, India's health minister said, as health and agriculture experts from 11 Asian countries met in New Delhi.
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Indonesian poultry farmers, following a bird flu outbreak, are facing another mysterious disease that has killed thousands of chickens in the past few days.
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The farming industry in Wales speaks of its shock as a new case of foot-and-mouth disease is confirmed in Surrey.
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Nigeria must step up farm controls to stem the spread of bird flu, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday, urging consumers to take precautions against infection.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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Farming, labour and consumer associations are calling for national standards to prevent farm workers from being exploited.