Pests and Pestilence
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Are common cockroaches carriers of disease?
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THE DEATH of a Piedmont squirrel from the West Nile Virus means its time to act -- not react. There are some important steps we can take to reduce the mosquito population in our hills communities, and we should take them.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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SWARMS of pink locusts yesterday swept through Cairo in scenes recalling the biblical plague of Egypt. The swarms flew high above tall towers or swooped on to treelined streets, where scared pedestrians stamped on them or ran for cover.
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Analysis: Environmental groups should help fight malaria by embracing indoor spraying of the pesticide instead of denouncing it
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BEIJING - Tainted pet food. Unsafe toys. Brown skies and orange lakes. Slave labor scandals. Collapsed bridges and coal mining disasters.
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Prehistoric humans were infected with a bug that causes stomach ulcers, a study has shown.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster &#151; thousands of acres of green grass, herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers are hopeful their quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can wreak havoc on pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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ATLANTA -- A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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The devastation wrought by nature can be terrible. However, it can be made much worse by humans-by both our activity and inactivity.
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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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NEW YORK  - A study shows that individuals can harbor the bacterium, Clostridium difficile, but may not become ill. However, these carriers frequently shed virus onto their skin and into the environment and, as a result, may contribute significantly to disease transmission.
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In an echo of the biblical plagues, millions of locusts swarmed into northern Egypt on Wednesday for the first time in 50 years, prompting authorities to order emergency pesticide spraying to protect the region's important agriculture industry.
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.